diff --git a/devel/py-magic/Makefile b/devel/py-magic/Makefile
index c4b586f9853e..532d0c712b1b 100644
--- a/devel/py-magic/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-magic/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Created by: Alexander Botero-Lowry <alexbl@FreeBSD.org>
 
 PORTNAME=	magic
-PORTVERSION=	5.39
+PORTVERSION=	5.40
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/ \
 		ftp://ftp.gw.com/mirrors/pub/unix/file/ \
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ COMMENT=	Python module for determining file type
 
 LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE
 
-USES=		python:3.6+
+USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist
 
 # both install module as magic.py
diff --git a/devel/py-magic/distinfo b/devel/py-magic/distinfo
index c7a1ee09cbf2..a58bd2fb156f 100644
--- a/devel/py-magic/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-magic/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1594644343
-SHA256 (file-5.39.tar.gz) = f05d286a76d9556243d0cb05814929c2ecf3a5ba07963f8f70bfaaa70517fad1
-SIZE (file-5.39.tar.gz) = 954266
+TIMESTAMP = 1622623858
+SHA256 (file-5.40.tar.gz) = 167321f43c148a553f68a0ea7f579821ef3b11c27b8cbe158e4df897e4a5dd57
+SIZE (file-5.40.tar.gz) = 1004214