diff --git a/devel/py-pycocotools/Makefile b/devel/py-pycocotools/Makefile
index 951108d1492f..113d27d3b200 100644
--- a/devel/py-pycocotools/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-pycocotools/Makefile
@@ -1,30 +1,30 @@
 PORTNAME=	pycocotools
 PORTVERSION=	2.0.11
 PORTREVISION=	2
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Official APIs for the MS-COCO dataset
 WWW=		https://github.com/ppwwyyxx/cocoapi/tree/master/PythonAPI
 
 LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=0,1:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=2.0.0,1<3,1:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=43.0.0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=0,1:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent cython pep517
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	ALL
 ALL_DESC=	All optional dependencies
 
 ALL_RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}matplotlib>=2.1.0:math/py-matplotlib@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 post-install:
 	${FIND} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR} -name '*.so' -exec ${STRIP_CMD} {} +
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-pycocotools/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/devel/py-pycocotools/files/patch-pyproject.toml
index ae8e3ebbde70..382bd5ba6fdb 100644
--- a/devel/py-pycocotools/files/patch-pyproject.toml
+++ b/devel/py-pycocotools/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
---- pyproject.toml.orig	2025-06-04 23:30:12 UTC
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2025-12-15 22:19:06 UTC
 +++ pyproject.toml
-@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ requires = [
- [build-system]
+@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ requires = [
  requires = [
      "cython>=3.1.0",
--    "numpy>=2.0.0,<3",
+     "numpy>=2.0.0,<3",
 -    "setuptools>=70.1.0",
-+    "numpy",
 +    "setuptools>=43.0.0",
  ]
  build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"