diff --git a/misc/py-sentence-transformers/Makefile b/misc/py-sentence-transformers/Makefile
index 2ff2da397d55..cef5d017bab3 100644
--- a/misc/py-sentence-transformers/Makefile
+++ b/misc/py-sentence-transformers/Makefile
@@ -1,38 +1,35 @@
 PORTNAME=	sentence-transformers
-DISTVERSION=	5.6.1
+DISTVERSION=	6.0.1
 CATEGORIES=	misc # machine-learning
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME:S/-/_/}-${PORTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	PyTorch: Ready to use implementations of generative models
 WWW=		https://www.sbert.net/ \
 		https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
-RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}huggingface-hub>=0.23.0:misc/py-huggingface-hub@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=1.20.0:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytorch>=1.11.0:misc/py-pytorch@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}scikit-learn>=0.22.0:science/py-scikit-learn@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}huggingface-hub>=1.3.0:misc/py-huggingface-hub@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=1.24.0:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytorch>=2.2.0:misc/py-pytorch@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}scikit-learn>=1.1.0:science/py-scikit-learn@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}scipy>=1.0.0:science/py-scipy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tqdm>=4.0.0:misc/py-tqdm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}transformers>=4.41.0:misc/py-transformers@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}typing-extensions>=4.5.0:devel/py-typing-extensions@${PY_FLAVOR}
-RUN_DEPENDS+=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tokenizers>0:textproc/py-tokenizers@${PY_FLAVOR}
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}transformers>=5.0.0:misc/py-transformers@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}typing-extensions>=4.10.0:devel/py-typing-extensions@${PY_FLAVOR}
+RUN_DEPENDS+=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tokenizers>=0.19:textproc/py-tokenizers@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
-USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest
-
-TEST_ENV=	${MAKE_ENV} PYTHONPATH=${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}
-TEST_WRKSRC=	${WRKSRC}/tests
+USES=		python dos2unix
+USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
-# tests fail to run, see https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/issues/3520
+NO_TEST=	yes # tests are not included in the PyPI sdist; see https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/issues/3520
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/misc/py-sentence-transformers/distinfo b/misc/py-sentence-transformers/distinfo
index e73f9e8a1ad4..3d468dfc023d 100644
--- a/misc/py-sentence-transformers/distinfo
+++ b/misc/py-sentence-transformers/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1785092098
-SHA256 (sentence_transformers-5.6.1.tar.gz) = 16af5d682ef66672b076d58599a23905800e850ec2bfb1865938306bf684ad72
-SIZE (sentence_transformers-5.6.1.tar.gz) = 452185
+TIMESTAMP = 1788825747
+SHA256 (sentence_transformers-6.0.1.tar.gz) = 1c3b8d9403f87ad0c879638554f36cc85744f38a6a70d150fd7e964ca0e9935b
+SIZE (sentence_transformers-6.0.1.tar.gz) = 575395
diff --git a/misc/py-sentence-transformers/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/misc/py-sentence-transformers/files/patch-pyproject.toml
index e45a4c831819..8044760db73b 100644
--- a/misc/py-sentence-transformers/files/patch-pyproject.toml
+++ b/misc/py-sentence-transformers/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
 -- Remove license field that is incompatible with setuptools 63.1.0
 -- The LICENSE_FILE is already set in the Makefile
 --
 -- Lower setuptools requirement to match FreeBSD port version
 
---- pyproject.toml.orig	2026-07-26 11:58:09.191232000 -0700
-+++ pyproject.toml	2026-07-26 11:58:09.192345000 -0700
-@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
- name = "sentence-transformers"
- version = "5.6.1"
- description = "Embeddings, Retrieval, and Reranking"
--license = "Apache-2.0"
- readme = "README.md"
- authors = [
-     { name = "Nils Reimers", email = "info@nils-reimers.de" },
-@@ -99,7 +98,7 @@
- ]
- 
- [build-system]
--requires = ["setuptools>=77.0.3"]
-+requires = ["setuptools>=63.1.0"]
- build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
- 
- [tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2026-09-08 00:03:10 UTC
++++ pyproject.toml
+@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ description = "Embeddings, Retrieval, and Reranking"
+ name = "sentence-transformers"
+ version = "6.0.1"
+ description = "Embeddings, Retrieval, and Reranking"
+-license = "Apache-2.0"
+ readme = "README.md"
+ authors = [
+     { name = "Nils Reimers", email = "info@nils-reimers.de" },
+@@ -100,7 +99,7 @@ docs = [
+ ]
+ 
+ [build-system]
+-requires = ["setuptools>=77.0.3"]
++requires = ["setuptools>=63.1.0"]
+ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+ 
+ [tool.setuptools.packages.find]