diff --git a/devel/py-grpcio-status/Makefile b/devel/py-grpcio-status/Makefile
index 8dc3cd904764..461d543730d7 100644
--- a/devel/py-grpcio-status/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-grpcio-status/Makefile
@@ -1,27 +1,27 @@
 PORTNAME=	grpcio-status
-PORTVERSION=	1.71.0
+PORTVERSION=	1.72.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 DISTNAME=	grpcio_status-${PORTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Status proto mapping for gRPC
 WWW=		https://grpc.io/ \
 		https://github.com/grpc/grpc/tree/master/src/python/grpcio_status
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}googleapis-common-protos>=1.5.5:devel/py-googleapis-common-protos@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}grpcio>=${PORTVERSION}:devel/py-grpcio@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}protobuf>=5.26.1,1<6.0,1:devel/py-protobuf@${PY_FLAVOR}
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}protobuf>=5.26.1,1<7.0,1:devel/py-protobuf@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent pep517
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-grpcio-status/distinfo b/devel/py-grpcio-status/distinfo
index 047e80a0ab7b..85ee1ff1af37 100644
--- a/devel/py-grpcio-status/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-grpcio-status/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1742070362
-SHA256 (grpcio_status-1.71.0.tar.gz) = 11405fed67b68f406b3f3c7c5ae5104a79d2d309666d10d61b152e91d28fb968
-SIZE (grpcio_status-1.71.0.tar.gz) = 13669
+TIMESTAMP = 1745936132
+SHA256 (grpcio_status-1.72.0.tar.gz) = 6b67c97dbe2b0668557d7e443834d1e346f527999d55a491bb7ddb241cac21cb
+SIZE (grpcio_status-1.72.0.tar.gz) = 13655
diff --git a/devel/py-grpcio-status/files/patch-setup.py b/devel/py-grpcio-status/files/patch-setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..904ba4a6bfa8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/py-grpcio-status/files/patch-setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- setup.py.orig	2025-04-30 13:49:55 UTC
++++ setup.py
+@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ INSTALL_REQUIRES = (
+ }
+ 
+ INSTALL_REQUIRES = (
+-    "protobuf>=6.30.0,<7.0dev",
++    "protobuf>=5.26.1,<7.0dev",
+     "grpcio>={version}".format(version=grpc_version.VERSION),
+     "googleapis-common-protos>=1.5.5",
+ )