diff --git a/package/python-chardet/Config.in b/package/python-chardet/Config.in
index 869888cfe0..59e7cbfa2c 100644
--- a/package/python-chardet/Config.in
+++ b/package/python-chardet/Config.in
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_CHARDET
 	bool "python-chardet"
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_SETUPTOOLS # runtime
 	help
-	  Universal encoding detector for Python 2 and 3.
+	  Universal encoding detector for Python 3.
 
 	  https://github.com/chardet/chardet
diff --git a/package/python-chardet/python-chardet.hash b/package/python-chardet/python-chardet.hash
index 7721814279..7887dd769d 100644
--- a/package/python-chardet/python-chardet.hash
+++ b/package/python-chardet/python-chardet.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/chardet/json
-md5  8013c248c098e165ac53d900e1a1278a  chardet-5.0.0.tar.gz
-sha256  0368df2bfd78b5fc20572bb4e9bb7fb53e2c094f60ae9993339e8671d0afb8aa  chardet-5.0.0.tar.gz
+md5  394bd03d7a258d2771040bfbd5a7bf66  chardet-5.1.0.tar.gz
+sha256  0d62712b956bc154f85fb0a266e2a3c5913c2967e00348701b32411d6def31e5  chardet-5.1.0.tar.gz
 # Locally computed
 sha256  dc626520dcd53a22f727af3ee42c770e56c97a64fe3adb063799d8ab032fe551  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/python-chardet/python-chardet.mk b/package/python-chardet/python-chardet.mk
index 1d737891a0..42646aa513 100644
--- a/package/python-chardet/python-chardet.mk
+++ b/package/python-chardet/python-chardet.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PYTHON_CHARDET_VERSION = 5.0.0
+PYTHON_CHARDET_VERSION = 5.1.0
 PYTHON_CHARDET_SOURCE = chardet-$(PYTHON_CHARDET_VERSION).tar.gz
-PYTHON_CHARDET_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/31/a2/12c090713b3d0e141f367236d3a8bdc3e5fca0d83ff3647af4892c16c205
+PYTHON_CHARDET_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/41/32/cdc91dcf83849c7385bf8e2a5693d87376536ed000807fa07f5eab33430d
 PYTHON_CHARDET_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
 PYTHON_CHARDET_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1+
 PYTHON_CHARDET_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE