diff --git a/dns/powerdns-recursor/Makefile b/dns/powerdns-recursor/Makefile
index bbbb13edac75..c756ef58ed69 100644
--- a/dns/powerdns-recursor/Makefile
+++ b/dns/powerdns-recursor/Makefile
@@ -1,77 +1,77 @@
 # Created by: sten@blinkenlights.nl
 
 PORTNAME=	recursor
-DISTVERSION=	4.4.3
+DISTVERSION=	4.5.1
 CATEGORIES=	dns
 MASTER_SITES=	http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	powerdns-
 DISTNAME=	pdns-${PORTNAME}-${DISTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	tremere@cainites.net
 COMMENT=	Advanced DNS recursor
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 BROKEN_armv6=	fails to compile: use of overloaded operator << is ambiguous
 BROKEN_armv7=	fails to compile: use of overloaded operator << is ambiguous
 BROKEN_i386=	crashes on startup (SIGSEGV)
 BROKEN_FreeBSD_12_powerpc64=	fails to compile: Assembler messages: unaligned opcodes detected in executable segment
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${LOCALBASE}/include/boost/shared_ptr.hpp:devel/boost-libs
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libboost_context.so:devel/boost-libs \
 		libprotobuf.so:devel/protobuf
 
 USES=		autoreconf compiler:c++11-lib cpe gmake libtool localbase:ldflags \
 		pkgconfig ssl tar:bzip2
 
 CPE_VENDOR=	powerdns
 USE_RC_SUBR=	pdns-recursor
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	YES
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--sysconfdir=${PREFIX}/etc/pdns \
 		--with-protobuf \
 		--without-net-snmp \
 		--without-systemd
 
 SUB_FILES=	pkg-message
 
 USERS=		pdns_recursor
 GROUPS=		pdns
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=		DNSTAP
 OPTIONS_DEFAULT=	LUA
 OPTIONS_SINGLE=		EXTLUA
 OPTIONS_SINGLE_EXTLUA=	LUA LUAJIT LUAJITOR
 
 DNSTAP_DESC=	dnstap support (see dnstap.info)
 LUAJITOR_DESC=	Use lang/luajit-openresty
 LUAJIT_DESC=	Use lang/luajit
 LUA_DESC=	Use lang/lua
 
 DNSTAP_LIB_DEPENDS=		libfstrm.so:devel/fstrm
 DNSTAP_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	dnstap
 
 LUAJITOR_LIB_DEPENDS=	libluajit-5.1.so.2:lang/luajit-openresty
 LUAJITOR_CONFIGURE_ON=	--with-lua=luajit
 
 LUAJIT_LIB_DEPENDS=	libluajit-5.1.so.2:lang/luajit
 LUAJIT_CONFIGURE_ON=	--with-lua=luajit
 
 LUA_USES=	lua
 
 .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
 
 .if ${OPSYS} == FreeBSD && ${OSVERSION} < 1200085 && ${SSL_DEFAULT} != openssl
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--with-libdecaf \
 			--with-libsodium
 LIB_DEPENDS+=		libdecaf.so:security/libdecaf \
 			libsodium.so:security/libsodium
 .else
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--with-libsodium=no
 .endif
 
 post-install:
 	@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}/var/run/pdns-recursor
 
 .include <bsd.port.post.mk>
diff --git a/dns/powerdns-recursor/distinfo b/dns/powerdns-recursor/distinfo
index a09b4f2fc58a..53a1758783d4 100644
--- a/dns/powerdns-recursor/distinfo
+++ b/dns/powerdns-recursor/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1617201578
-SHA256 (pdns-recursor-4.4.3.tar.bz2) = f8411258100cc310c75710d7f4d59b5eb4797f437f71dc466ed97a83f1babe05
-SIZE (pdns-recursor-4.4.3.tar.bz2) = 1398743
+TIMESTAMP = 1620750356
+SHA256 (pdns-recursor-4.5.1.tar.bz2) = 3721a1d0e438a683735f518db1e91da6ace1b90fbfdb9c588adabdf164114e79
+SIZE (pdns-recursor-4.5.1.tar.bz2) = 1463138
diff --git a/dns/powerdns-recursor/files/patch-dnsname.hh b/dns/powerdns-recursor/files/patch-dnsname.hh
deleted file mode 100644
index a60e11872fa1..000000000000
--- a/dns/powerdns-recursor/files/patch-dnsname.hh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- dnsname.hh.orig	2020-05-08 09:31:59 UTC
-+++ dnsname.hh
-@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
- #include <boost/version.hpp>
- 
- // it crashes on OSX and doesn't compile on OpenBSD
--#if BOOST_VERSION >= 105300 && ! defined( __APPLE__ ) && ! defined(__OpenBSD__)
-+#if BOOST_VERSION >= 105300 && ! defined(_LIBCPP_VERSION) && ! defined(__OpenBSD__)
- #include <boost/container/string.hpp>
- #endif
- 
-@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ class DNSName (public)
-   inline bool canonCompare(const DNSName& rhs) const;
-   bool slowCanonCompare(const DNSName& rhs) const;  
- 
--#if BOOST_VERSION >= 105300 && ! defined( __APPLE__ ) && ! defined(__OpenBSD__)
-+#if BOOST_VERSION >= 105300 && ! defined(_LIBCPP_VERSION) && ! defined(__OpenBSD__)
-   typedef boost::container::string string_t;
- #else
-   typedef std::string string_t;