diff --git a/devel/py-colorama/Makefile b/devel/py-colorama/Makefile
index 58dcb11d3707..d8aff6a2fd29 100644
--- a/devel/py-colorama/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-colorama/Makefile
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
 # Created by: Alexey V. Degtyarev <alexey@renatasystems.org>
 
 PORTNAME=	colorama
-PORTVERSION=	0.4.4
+PORTVERSION=	0.4.5
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	CHEESESHOP
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	ygy@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Cross-platform API to print colored terminal text from Python applications
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
-USES=		python:3.6+
-USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist
+USES=		python:3.7+
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-colorama/distinfo b/devel/py-colorama/distinfo
index 73cfe9a3745f..67a1b2616d95 100644
--- a/devel/py-colorama/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-colorama/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1605702758
-SHA256 (colorama-0.4.4.tar.gz) = 5941b2b48a20143d2267e95b1c2a7603ce057ee39fd88e7329b0c292aa16869b
-SIZE (colorama-0.4.4.tar.gz) = 27813
+TIMESTAMP = 1657341034
+SHA256 (colorama-0.4.5.tar.gz) = e6c6b4334fc50988a639d9b98aa429a0b57da6e17b9a44f0451f930b6967b7a4
+SIZE (colorama-0.4.5.tar.gz) = 27469
diff --git a/devel/py-colorama/files/patch-setup.py b/devel/py-colorama/files/patch-setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index fdc9e02d0db4..000000000000
--- a/devel/py-colorama/files/patch-setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-Default to UTF-8 encoding to fix build with Python 3.6
-
-Obtained from: https://github.com/tartley/colorama/pull/294/files
-
---- setup.py.orig	2020-10-12 21:22:32 UTC
-+++ setup.py
-@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
- 
- from __future__ import with_statement
- 
-+from io import open
- import os
- import re
- try:
-@@ -14,8 +15,9 @@ except ImportError:
- NAME = 'colorama'
- 
- 
--def read_file(path):
--    with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), path)) as fp:
-+def read_file(path, encoding='utf8'):
-+    with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), path),
-+              encoding=encoding) as fp:
-         return fp.read()
- 
- def _get_version_match(content):