diff --git a/textproc/py-fastavro/Makefile b/textproc/py-fastavro/Makefile
index 3954f7529f68..69fd77dd4ca0 100644
--- a/textproc/py-fastavro/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/py-fastavro/Makefile
@@ -1,19 +1,17 @@
 PORTNAME=	fastavro
-PORTVERSION=	0.24.2
+PORTVERSION=	1.9.3
 CATEGORIES=	textproc python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	zi@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Fast AVRO for Python
 WWW=		https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fastavro
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytz>0:devel/py-pytz@${PY_FLAVOR}
-
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/py-fastavro/distinfo b/textproc/py-fastavro/distinfo
index e6f04253accd..a98837644114 100644
--- a/textproc/py-fastavro/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/py-fastavro/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1599918525
-SHA256 (fastavro-0.24.2.tar.gz) = 960b30cf364cf9bfe17219fc9fac4958290ae2814e23b4b0edd54292fd28d08d
-SIZE (fastavro-0.24.2.tar.gz) = 657261
+TIMESTAMP = 1705429095
+SHA256 (fastavro-1.9.3.tar.gz) = a30d3d2353f6d3b4f6dcd6a97ae937b3775faddd63f5856fe11ba3b0dbb1756a
+SIZE (fastavro-1.9.3.tar.gz) = 985451