diff --git a/srcpkgs/glusterfs/template b/srcpkgs/glusterfs/template
index 7b7e514bb15..eabb5e07397 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/glusterfs/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/glusterfs/template
@@ -1,13 +1,18 @@
 # Template file for 'glusterfs'
 pkgname=glusterfs
-version=9.4
-revision=4
+version=9.6
+revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
-configure_args="--with-mountutildir=/usr/bin ac_cv_file__etc_debian_version=no
- ac_cv_file__etc_SuSE_release=no ac_cv_file__etc_redhat_release=no
- ac_cv_file__etc_centos_release=no"
+configure_args="
+ --with-mountutildir=/usr/bin
+ ac_cv_file__etc_debian_version=no
+ ac_cv_file__etc_SuSE_release=no
+ ac_cv_file__etc_redhat_release=no
+ ac_cv_file__etc_centos_release=no
+ am_cv_python_version=${py3_ver}
+"
 pycompile_dirs="/usr/libexec/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon"
-hostmakedepends="automake flex libtool pkg-config python3 rpcsvc-proto"
+hostmakedepends="flex pkg-config python3-setuptools rpcsvc-proto"
 makedepends="acl-devel libaio-devel libtirpc-devel openssl-devel
  liburcu-devel liburing-devel libxml2-devel rdma-core-devel sqlite-devel"
 # python is required by gsyncd.
@@ -17,12 +22,22 @@ maintainer="Noel Cower <ncower@nil.dev>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later, LGPL-3.0-only"
 homepage="https://www.gluster.org/"
 distfiles="https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/${version%.*}/${version}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=07f360c9b43cb1101a857706494e310328e9d6a4e6b2f0697a3bc3f165c2652a
+checksum=55ebe404ca887e387b1b6ecf952400f795be275f475295014dfc7ad4c1ed1464
 
 case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
 	*-musl) broken="not yet supported";;
 esac
 
+post_extract() {
+	# The py-compile helper uses the imp module, removed in Python 3.12;
+	# besides, we don't want the module pre-compiled anyway, so just drop it
+	: > py-compile
+	cat > py-compile <<-'EOF'
+		#!/bin/sh
+		: "$@"
+		EOF
+}
+
 post_install() {
 	rm -rf ${DESTDIR}/var ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/glusterfs/scripts/gsync-sync-gfid
 	vsv glusterfsd