diff --git a/devel/cjson/Makefile b/devel/cjson/Makefile
index c7505d1f2d9..f61b57b84c2 100644
--- a/devel/cjson/Makefile
+++ b/devel/cjson/Makefile
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ COMMENT =	ultralightweight JSON parser in ANSI C
 
 GH_ACCOUNT =	DaveGamble
 GH_PROJECT =	cJSON
-GH_TAGNAME =	v1.7.18
-REVISION =	0
+GH_TAGNAME =	v1.7.19
 
 PKGNAME =	${DISTNAME:L}
 
diff --git a/devel/cjson/distinfo b/devel/cjson/distinfo
index 2cb9221cb5e..c0dd2b16f1b 100644
--- a/devel/cjson/distinfo
+++ b/devel/cjson/distinfo
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-SHA256 (cJSON-1.7.18.tar.gz) = OqgGhEoDRCwAdpuD6ZlwvnD77wNzX/iY9IEd0DufXuU=
-SIZE (cJSON-1.7.18.tar.gz) = 354726
+SHA256 (cJSON-1.7.19.tar.gz) = f6YW4wRu36eiijLV+erP0j+SkA/h+MzZiMFmLzBFRWI=
+SIZE (cJSON-1.7.19.tar.gz) = 356247
diff --git a/devel/cjson/patches/patch-tests_misc_tests_c b/devel/cjson/patches/patch-tests_misc_tests_c
deleted file mode 100644
index 0e43501c586..00000000000
--- a/devel/cjson/patches/patch-tests_misc_tests_c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-...so does otto malloc
-
-Index: tests/misc_tests.c
---- tests/misc_tests.c.orig
-+++ tests/misc_tests.c
-@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ static void deallocated_pointers_should_be_set_to_null
- {
-     /* deallocated pointers should be set to null */
-     /* however, valgrind on linux reports when attempting to access a freed memory, we have to skip it */
--#ifndef ENABLE_VALGRIND
-+#if !defined(ENABLE_VALGRIND) && !defined(__OpenBSD__)
-     cJSON *string = cJSON_CreateString("item");
-     cJSON *root = cJSON_CreateObject();
-