diff --git a/textproc/py-spacy/Makefile b/textproc/py-spacy/Makefile
index d8a58898ef27..1bdbf5469683 100644
--- a/textproc/py-spacy/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/py-spacy/Makefile
@@ -1,50 +1,50 @@
 PORTNAME=	spacy
 PORTVERSION=	3.8.13
 PORTREVISION=	1
 CATEGORIES=	textproc python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI \
 		https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/download/release-v${PORTVERSION}/
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python
 WWW=		https://spacy.io/ \
 		https://github.com/explosion/spaCy
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}cymem>=2.0.2<2.1.0:devel/py-cymem@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}murmurhash>=0.28.0<1.1.0:devel/py-murmurhash@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=1.19.0,1:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=2.0.0,1<3.0.0,1:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}preshed3>=3.0.2<3.1.0:devel/py-preshed3@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}thinc8>=8.3.12<8.4.0:devel/py-thinc8@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}catalogue>=2.0.6<2.1.0:devel/py-catalogue@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}confection>=1.3.2<2.0.0:devel/py-confection@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}cymem>=2.0.2<2.1.0:devel/py-cymem@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}Jinja2>=0:devel/py-Jinja2@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}murmurhash>=0.28.0<1.1.0:devel/py-murmurhash@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=1.19.0,1:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}packaging>=20.0:devel/py-packaging@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}preshed3>=3.0.2<3.1.0:devel/py-preshed3@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pydantic2>=2.0.0<3.0.0:devel/py-pydantic2@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>=2.13.0<3.0.0:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}spacy-legacy>=3.0.11<3.1.0:textproc/py-spacy-legacy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}spacy-loggers>=1.0.0<2.0.0:textproc/py-spacy-loggers@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}srsly>=2.5.3<3.0.0:devel/py-srsly@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}thinc8>=8.3.12<8.4.0:devel/py-thinc8@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tqdm>=4.38.0<5.0.0:misc/py-tqdm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}typer>=0.3.0<1.0.0:devel/py-typer@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wasabi>=0.9.1<1.2.0:textproc/py-wasabi@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}weasel>=1.0.0<2.0.0:devel/py-weasel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent cython pep517
 
 post-install:
 	${FIND} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR} -name '*.so' -exec ${STRIP_CMD} {} +
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/py-spacy/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/textproc/py-spacy/files/patch-pyproject.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index ee9257419d17..000000000000
--- a/textproc/py-spacy/files/patch-pyproject.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- pyproject.toml.orig	2026-03-23 15:53:13 UTC
-+++ pyproject.toml
-@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ requires = [
-     "preshed>=3.0.2,<3.1.0",
-     "murmurhash>=0.28.0,<1.1.0",
-     "thinc>=8.3.12,<8.4.0",
--    "numpy>=2.0.0,<3.0.0"
-+    "numpy>=1.19.0,<3.0.0"
- ]
- build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
- 
diff --git a/textproc/py-spacy/files/patch-setup.cfg b/textproc/py-spacy/files/patch-setup.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index ff432beca828..000000000000
--- a/textproc/py-spacy/files/patch-setup.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- setup.cfg.orig	2025-11-17 18:01:00 UTC
-+++ setup.cfg
-@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ setup_requires = 
- python_requires = >=3.9,<3.15
- setup_requires = 
- 	cython>=3.0,<4.0
--	numpy>=2.0.0,<3.0.0; python_version < "3.9"
--	numpy>=2.0.0,<3.0.0; python_version >= "3.9"
-+	numpy>=1.19.0; python_version < "3.9"
-+	numpy>=1.19.0; python_version >= "3.9"
- 	cymem>=2.0.2,<2.1.0
- 	preshed>=3.0.2,<3.1.0
- 	murmurhash>=0.28.0,<1.1.0