diff --git a/package/python-pathvalidate/Config.in b/package/python-pathvalidate/Config.in
index 8606696e1b..564c3a0913 100644
--- a/package/python-pathvalidate/Config.in
+++ b/package/python-pathvalidate/Config.in
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_PATHVALIDATE
 	bool "python-pathvalidate"
+	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PYHON3
 	help
 	  pathvalidate is a python library to validate/sanitize a string
 	  such as filename/variable-name.
diff --git a/package/python-pathvalidate/python-pathvalidate.hash b/package/python-pathvalidate/python-pathvalidate.hash
index db1190fc77..adf1a75dca 100644
--- a/package/python-pathvalidate/python-pathvalidate.hash
+++ b/package/python-pathvalidate/python-pathvalidate.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/pathvalidate/json
-md5	b0a8242d124a9e760ca2d084a4f8fa75  pathvalidate-0.29.0.tar.gz
-sha256	bf250828f40d94881df764950cffca14bb3fa83783d9f239125a6b5e23a5646e  pathvalidate-0.29.0.tar.gz
+md5  afc0343cd8c4ad732431a8b860d73330  pathvalidate-2.5.0.tar.gz
+sha256  119ba36be7e9a405d704c7b7aea4b871c757c53c9adc0ed64f40be1ed8da2781  pathvalidate-2.5.0.tar.gz
 # Locally computed sha256 checksums
-sha256	a93d75bcb0774e2990106380cadad6dcb2de193c55d435ffc56ba345a08b1dc2  LICENSE
+sha256  a93d75bcb0774e2990106380cadad6dcb2de193c55d435ffc56ba345a08b1dc2  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/python-pathvalidate/python-pathvalidate.mk b/package/python-pathvalidate/python-pathvalidate.mk
index ee707e4e25..bb434f3662 100644
--- a/package/python-pathvalidate/python-pathvalidate.mk
+++ b/package/python-pathvalidate/python-pathvalidate.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PYTHON_PATHVALIDATE_VERSION = 0.29.0
+PYTHON_PATHVALIDATE_VERSION = 2.5.0
 PYTHON_PATHVALIDATE_SOURCE = pathvalidate-$(PYTHON_PATHVALIDATE_VERSION).tar.gz
-PYTHON_PATHVALIDATE_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/fc/3f/7a96e26d36b7e99abc9c236ff6db2de2d98e59fed45f9932eb0d17d48473
+PYTHON_PATHVALIDATE_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/2e/89/7853a1ea323e848ab1e90c8930733bc19e35a935deb80d78b572c36ea33f
 PYTHON_PATHVALIDATE_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
 PYTHON_PATHVALIDATE_LICENSE = MIT
 PYTHON_PATHVALIDATE_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
diff --git a/package/python-pytablereader/Config.in b/package/python-pytablereader/Config.in
index 2642d3fdad..1c3f2af82f 100644
--- a/package/python-pytablereader/Config.in
+++ b/package/python-pytablereader/Config.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_PYTABLEREADER
 	bool "python-pytablereader"
-	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3 # python-mbstrdecoder, python-pathpy, python-beautifulsoup4
+	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3 # python-mbstrdecoder, python-pathpy, python-beautifulsoup4, python-pathvalidate
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_BEAUTIFULSOUP4 # runtime
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_DATAPROPERTY # runtime
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_JSONSCHEMA # runtime
diff --git a/package/python-pytablewriter/Config.in b/package/python-pytablewriter/Config.in
index b95ee35778..e0405d12c8 100644
--- a/package/python-pytablewriter/Config.in
+++ b/package/python-pytablewriter/Config.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_PYTABLEWRITER
 	bool "python-pytablewriter"
-	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3 # python-dataproperty, python-mbstrdecoder
+	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3 # python-dataproperty, python-mbstrdecoder, python-pathvalidate
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_DATAPROPERTY # runtime
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_MBSTRDECODER # runtime
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_MSGFY # runtime
diff --git a/package/python-simplesqlite/Config.in b/package/python-simplesqlite/Config.in
index 7e5484f494..5a9fa4a5db 100644
--- a/package/python-simplesqlite/Config.in
+++ b/package/python-simplesqlite/Config.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_SIMPLESQLITE
 	bool "python-simplesqlite"
-	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3 # python-mbstrdecoder
+	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3 # python-mbstrdecoder, python-pathvalidate
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_DATAPROPERTY # runtime
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_MBSTRDECODER # runtime
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_PATHVALIDATE # runtime