diff --git a/www/py-google-cloud-bigquery/Makefile b/www/py-google-cloud-bigquery/Makefile
index 9fa5f01c0a16..96fe02dbba6f 100644
--- a/www/py-google-cloud-bigquery/Makefile
+++ b/www/py-google-cloud-bigquery/Makefile
@@ -1,35 +1,39 @@
 PORTNAME=	google-cloud-bigquery
-DISTVERSION=	3.42.2
+DISTVERSION=	3.45.0
 CATEGORIES=	www python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME:S/-/_/g}-${DISTVERSIONFULL}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Google BigQuery API client library
 WWW=		https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}google-api-core>=2.25.0:www/py-google-api-core@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
+RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}google-api-core>=2.28.0:www/py-google-api-core@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}google-auth>=2.14.1:security/py-google-auth@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}google-cloud-core>=2.4.1:www/py-google-cloud-core@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}google-resumable-media>=2.0.0:www/py-google-resumable-media@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}grpcio>=1.49.1:devel/py-grpcio@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}grpcio>=1.59.0:devel/py-grpcio@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}packaging>=24.2.0:devel/py-packaging@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}proto-plus>=1.15.0:devel/py-proto-plus@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}protobuf>=3.19.5:devel/py-protobuf@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}protobuf>=6.33.5:devel/py-protobuf@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}proto-plus>=1.26.1:devel/py-proto-plus@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}python-dateutil>=2.8.2:devel/py-python-dateutil@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>=2.21.0:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR}
 TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}google-cloud-testutils>0:www/py-google-cloud-testutils@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest # 31 tests fail, tests require missing dependencies like db-tests, etc
-
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
+USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
+TEST_WRKSRC=	${WRKSRC}/tests/unit
+TEST_ARGS=	--disable-plugin-autoload
+
+# tests as of 3.45.0: tests crash with 'Invalid instruction' (assertion) caused by libparquet.so.2400.0.0 from databases/arrow the dependency (will be fixed there)
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/www/py-google-cloud-bigquery/distinfo b/www/py-google-cloud-bigquery/distinfo
index e535cec4a4c3..7f65b541b955 100644
--- a/www/py-google-cloud-bigquery/distinfo
+++ b/www/py-google-cloud-bigquery/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1783575066
-SHA256 (google_cloud_bigquery-3.42.2.tar.gz) = 08d4b264e5ee4790f719724c76b538f204b7190999328a2f1a6a95eaab74ca39
-SIZE (google_cloud_bigquery-3.42.2.tar.gz) = 517250
+TIMESTAMP = 1788793693
+SHA256 (google_cloud_bigquery-3.45.0.tar.gz) = 5a799856825f47743ce561802cbd01b4d5c70062b36a942cfef5146017ecf0a4
+SIZE (google_cloud_bigquery-3.45.0.tar.gz) = 528642