diff --git a/math/py-bottleneck/Makefile b/math/py-bottleneck/Makefile
index 6982e5bb7fbb..5f175d933444 100644
--- a/math/py-bottleneck/Makefile
+++ b/math/py-bottleneck/Makefile
@@ -1,37 +1,37 @@
 PORTNAME=	bottleneck
 PORTVERSION=	1.6.0
 PORTREVISION=	2
 CATEGORIES=	math python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Collection of fast NumPy array functions written in Cython
 WWW=		https://github.com/kwgoodman/bottleneck
 
 LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=0,1<2.6,1:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=2,1<2.6,1:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}versioneer>=0:devel/py-versioneer@${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
 
 DOCS=		README.rst RELEASE.rst \
 		doc/source/conf.py doc/source/index.rst doc/source/intro.rst doc/source/reference.rst
 PORTDOCS=	${DOCS:T}
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	DOCS
 
 post-install:
 	${FIND} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR} -name '*.so' -exec ${STRIP_CMD} {} +
 
 post-install-DOCS-on:
 	${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
 	cd ${WRKSRC}/ && ${INSTALL_DATA} ${DOCS} ${STAGEDIR}${DOCSDIR}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/math/py-bottleneck/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/math/py-bottleneck/files/patch-pyproject.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index cbd1390947e0..000000000000
--- a/math/py-bottleneck/files/patch-pyproject.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- pyproject.toml.orig	2025-09-08 16:21:25 UTC
-+++ pyproject.toml
-@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ requires = [
-     #      and disabling build isolation.
-     #   3. The <2.(N+3) upper bound is for matching the numpy deprecation policy,
-     #      it should not be loosened more than that.
--    "numpy>=2,<2.6"
-+    "numpy<2.6"
- ]
- build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
-