diff --git a/misc/py-transformers/Makefile b/misc/py-transformers/Makefile
index a6a2d705c5aa..7d90acf97fb4 100644
--- a/misc/py-transformers/Makefile
+++ b/misc/py-transformers/Makefile
@@ -1,64 +1,64 @@
 PORTNAME=	transformers
 DISTVERSION=	5.3.0
-PORTREVISION=	2
+PORTREVISION=	3
 CATEGORIES=	misc python # machine-learning
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	State-of-the-art Machine Learning for JAX, PyTorch and TensorFlow
 WWW=		https://huggingface.co/transformers \
 		https://github.com/huggingface/transformers
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}filelock>0:sysutils/py-filelock@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}huggingface-hub>=1.3.0:misc/py-huggingface-hub@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=1.16:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}packaging>=20.0:devel/py-packaging@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pyyaml>=5.1:devel/py-pyyaml@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}regex>=2019.12.17:textproc/py-regex@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>0:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}safetensors>=0.4.3:misc/py-safetensors@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tokenizers>=0.22:textproc/py-tokenizers@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tqdm>=4.27:misc/py-tqdm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}typer>0:devel/py-typer@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS+=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytorch>=2.1:misc/py-pytorch@${PY_FLAVOR}
 # vision
 RUN_DEPENDS+=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pillow>0:graphics/py-pillow@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}torchvision>0:misc/py-torchvision@${PY_FLAVOR}
 # speech/audio
 RUN_DEPENDS+=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}librosa>0:audio/py-librosa@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}torchaudio>0:audio/py-torchaudio@${PY_FLAVOR}
 # serving
 RUN_DEPENDS+=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}fastapi>0:www/py-fastapi@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}openai>0:misc/py-openai@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pydantic2>0:devel/py-pydantic2@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}starlette>0:www/py-starlette@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}uvicorn>0:www/py-uvicorn@${PY_FLAVOR}
 # assorted
 RUN_DEPENDS+=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}accelerate>=0.26.0:misc/py-accelerate@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}blobfile>=0:net/py-blobfile@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}codecarbon>=2.8.1:misc/py-codecarbon@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}ftfy>=0:textproc/py-ftfy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}NATTEN>=0.14.6:misc/py-NATTEN@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}num2words>=0:devel/py-num2words@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}optuna>=0:misc/py-optuna@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}sagemaker>=2.31.0:misc/py-sagemaker@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}sentencepiece>=0.1.91:textproc/py-sentencepiece@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tiktoken>=0:textproc/py-tiktoken@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}timm>=1.0.19:misc/py-timm@${PY_FLAVOR}
 TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}parameterized>0:devel/py-parameterized@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest
 
 TEST_ENV=	${MAKE_ENV} PYTHONPATH=${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}
 TEST_WRKSRC=	${WRKSRC}/tests
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/misc/py-transformers/files/patch-setup.py b/misc/py-transformers/files/patch-setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a0f398d8295f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/misc/py-transformers/files/patch-setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- setup.py.orig	2026-07-28 06:12:06 UTC
++++ setup.py
+@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ _deps = [
+     "timeout-decorator",
+     "tiktoken",
+     "timm>=1.0.23",
+-    "tokenizers>=0.22.0,<=0.23.0",
++    "tokenizers>=0.22.0",
+     "torch>=2.4",
+     "torchaudio",
+     "torchvision",
diff --git a/misc/py-transformers/files/patch-src_transformers_dependency__versions__table.py b/misc/py-transformers/files/patch-src_transformers_dependency__versions__table.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1f7ddd76326c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/misc/py-transformers/files/patch-src_transformers_dependency__versions__table.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- src/transformers/dependency_versions_table.py.orig	2026-07-28 06:12:44 UTC
++++ src/transformers/dependency_versions_table.py
+@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ deps = {
+     "timeout-decorator": "timeout-decorator",
+     "tiktoken": "tiktoken",
+     "timm": "timm>=1.0.23",
+-    "tokenizers": "tokenizers>=0.22.0,<=0.23.0",
++    "tokenizers": "tokenizers>=0.22.0",
+     "torch": "torch>=2.4",
+     "torchaudio": "torchaudio",
+     "torchvision": "torchvision",