diff --git a/misc/py-sentence-transformers/Makefile b/misc/py-sentence-transformers/Makefile
index 07eab0286bfe..c5ed3bc9f932 100644
--- a/misc/py-sentence-transformers/Makefile
+++ b/misc/py-sentence-transformers/Makefile
@@ -1,39 +1,39 @@
 PORTNAME=	sentence-transformers
-DISTVERSION=	5.1.0
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	5.3.0
 CATEGORIES=	misc # machine-learning
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME:S/-/_/}-${PORTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	PyTorch: Ready to use implementations of generative models
 WWW=		https://www.sbert.net/ \
 		https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}huggingface-hub>=0.20.0:misc/py-huggingface-hub@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYNUMPY} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pillow>0:graphics/py-pillow@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytorch>=1.11.0:misc/py-pytorch@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}scikit-learn>0:science/py-scikit-learn@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}scipy>0:science/py-scipy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tqdm>0:misc/py-tqdm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}transformers>=4.41.0<5.0.0:misc/py-transformers@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}transformers>=4.41.0:misc/py-transformers@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}typing-extensions>=4.5.0:devel/py-typing-extensions@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS+=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tokenizers>0:textproc/py-tokenizers@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest
 
 TEST_ENV=	${MAKE_ENV} PYTHONPATH=${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}
 TEST_WRKSRC=	${WRKSRC}/tests
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 # tests fail to run, see https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/issues/3520
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/misc/py-sentence-transformers/distinfo b/misc/py-sentence-transformers/distinfo
index a9a739ee3496..ca1457053b43 100644
--- a/misc/py-sentence-transformers/distinfo
+++ b/misc/py-sentence-transformers/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1758260582
-SHA256 (sentence_transformers-5.1.0.tar.gz) = 70c7630697cc1c64ffca328d6e8688430ebd134b3c2df03dc07cb3a016b04739
-SIZE (sentence_transformers-5.1.0.tar.gz) = 370745
+TIMESTAMP = 1773511273
+SHA256 (sentence_transformers-5.3.0.tar.gz) = 414a0a881f53a4df0e6cbace75f823bfcb6b94d674c42a384b498959b7c065e2
+SIZE (sentence_transformers-5.3.0.tar.gz) = 403330