diff --git a/devel/py-rapidfuzz/Makefile b/devel/py-rapidfuzz/Makefile
index 3214d5f54a74..79b352fb85b4 100644
--- a/devel/py-rapidfuzz/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-rapidfuzz/Makefile
@@ -1,19 +1,22 @@
 PORTNAME=	rapidfuzz
-DISTVERSION=	1.5.1
+DISTVERSION=	1.7.1
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 MASTER_SITES=	CHEESESHOP
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Rapid fuzzy string matching in Python
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYNUMPY}
+RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYNUMPY}
+
 USES=		compiler:c++11-lang python:3.6+
 USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist
 
 post-install:
 	@${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR}/${PORTNAME}/*.so
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-rapidfuzz/distinfo b/devel/py-rapidfuzz/distinfo
index f5c308ad8fad..071d1cf700de 100644
--- a/devel/py-rapidfuzz/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-rapidfuzz/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1630574202
-SHA256 (rapidfuzz-1.5.1.tar.gz) = 4ebbd071425ee812548c301c60661a4f8faa5e5bcc97a6f0bef5b562585a8025
-SIZE (rapidfuzz-1.5.1.tar.gz) = 383787
+TIMESTAMP = 1633248034
+SHA256 (rapidfuzz-1.7.1.tar.gz) = 99495c679174b2a02641f7dc2364a208135cacca77fc4825a86efbfe1e23b0ff
+SIZE (rapidfuzz-1.7.1.tar.gz) = 526771