diff --git a/deskutils/py-khal/Makefile b/deskutils/py-khal/Makefile
index f89c772db423..bce715d6d4b5 100644
--- a/deskutils/py-khal/Makefile
+++ b/deskutils/py-khal/Makefile
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 PORTNAME=	khal
 DISTVERSION=	0.9.9
+PORTREVISION=	1
 CATEGORIES=	deskutils python
 MASTER_SITES=	CHEESESHOP
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}atomicwrites>=0.1.7:devel/py-atomicwrites@${
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}click>=3.2:devel/py-click@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}click-log>=0.2.0:devel/py-click-log@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}configobj>=0:devel/py-configobj@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}dateutil<=2.6.1:devel/py-dateutil@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}dateutil>=0:devel/py-dateutil@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}icalendar>=3.11.7:devel/py-icalendar@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytz>=0:devel/py-pytz@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}sqlite3>0:databases/py-sqlite3@${PY_FLAVOR} \
diff --git a/deskutils/py-khal/files/patch-setup.py b/deskutils/py-khal/files/patch-setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c3777f139f7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deskutils/py-khal/files/patch-setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- setup.py.orig	2018-08-01 06:44:27 UTC
++++ setup.py
+@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ requirements = [
+     'urwid',
+     'pyxdg',
+     'pytz',
+-    'python-dateutil<=2.6.1',
++    'python-dateutil',
+     'configobj',
+     # https://github.com/untitaker/python-atomicwrites/commit/4d12f23227b6a944ab1d99c507a69fdbc7c9ed6d  # noqa
+     'atomicwrites>=0.1.7',
diff --git a/deskutils/py-khal/pkg-message b/deskutils/py-khal/pkg-message
index f432bfb09de8..328ae88c6109 100644
--- a/deskutils/py-khal/pkg-message
+++ b/deskutils/py-khal/pkg-message
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-####################################################################
+######################################################################
 
 Khal needs LANG to be set to a UTF-8 locale (e.g. en_US.UTF-8) to run.
 
-####################################################################
+######################################################################