diff --git a/databases/py-pyarrow/Makefile b/databases/py-pyarrow/Makefile
index 4a2dc38b231f..d90460f8060c 100644
--- a/databases/py-pyarrow/Makefile
+++ b/databases/py-pyarrow/Makefile
@@ -1,27 +1,27 @@
 PORTNAME=	pyarrow
-PORTVERSION=	22.0.0
+PORTVERSION=	21.0.0
 CATEGORIES=	databases python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Python library for Apache Arrow
 WWW=		https://arrow.apache.org/ \
 		https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/main/python
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	arrow>=${PORTVERSION}<${PORTVERSION}_99:databases/arrow \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=1.25,1:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=61:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools-scm>=8:devel/py-setuptools-scm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libarrow.so:databases/arrow
 
 USES=		cmake:indirect 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/databases/py-pyarrow/distinfo b/databases/py-pyarrow/distinfo
index 5be65892c0e1..8c68d5145ef0 100644
--- a/databases/py-pyarrow/distinfo
+++ b/databases/py-pyarrow/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1765884836
-SHA256 (pyarrow-22.0.0.tar.gz) = 3d600dc583260d845c7d8a6db540339dd883081925da2bd1c5cb808f720b3cd9
-SIZE (pyarrow-22.0.0.tar.gz) = 1151151
+TIMESTAMP = 1753266046
+SHA256 (pyarrow-21.0.0.tar.gz) = 5051f2dccf0e283ff56335760cbc8622cf52264d67e359d5569541ac11b6d5bc
+SIZE (pyarrow-21.0.0.tar.gz) = 1133487