diff --git a/misc/py-datasets/Makefile b/misc/py-datasets/Makefile
index 7e969039db0f..2ca8b8793306 100644
--- a/misc/py-datasets/Makefile
+++ b/misc/py-datasets/Makefile
@@ -1,64 +1,64 @@
 PORTNAME=	datasets
-DISTVERSION=	2.20.0
+DISTVERSION=	2.21.0
 CATEGORIES=	misc python # machine-learning
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	HuggingFace community-driven open-source library of datasets
 WWW=		https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/index
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pyproject_hooks>0:devel/py-pyproject_hooks@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}aiohttp>0:www/py-aiohttp@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}dill>0.3.0<0.3.9:devel/py-dill@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}filelock>0:sysutils/py-filelock@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}fsspec>=2023.1.0:devel/py-fsspec@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}huggingface-hub>0.21.2:misc/py-huggingface-hub@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}multiprocess>0:devel/py-multiprocess@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=1.17:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYNUMPY} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}packaging>0:devel/py-packaging@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pandas>0:math/py-pandas@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pyarrow>=15.0.0:databases/py-pyarrow@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pyyaml>=5.1:devel/py-pyyaml@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>=2.32.2:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tqdm>=4.66.3:misc/py-tqdm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}xxhash>0:devel/py-xxhash@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS+=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}librosa>0:audio/py-librosa@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}SoundFile>=0.12.1:audio/py-SoundFile@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS+=	${PY_PILLOW}
 TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}absl-py>=0:devel/py-absl-py@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}elasticsearch>0:textproc/py-elasticsearch@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}faiss>=1.6.4:math/py-faiss@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}jax>=0.3.14:math/py-jax@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}jiwer>0:misc/py-jiwer@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}joblib>=1.3.0:devel/py-joblib@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}lz4>=0:archivers/py-lz4@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}polars>=0.20.0:misc/py-polars@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}protobuf>=4.0.0:devel/py-protobuf@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytest-datadir>=0:devel/py-pytest-datadir@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytest-xdist>=0:devel/py-pytest-xdist@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytest>=0:devel/py-pytest@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pytorch>=2.0.0:misc/py-pytorch@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}rarfile>=4.0:archivers/py-rarfile@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}s3fs>=2021.11.1:devel/py-s3fs@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tiktoken>=0:textproc/py-tiktoken@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}typing-extensions>=4.6.1:devel/py-typing-extensions@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}zstandard>=0:archivers/py-zstandard@${PY_FLAVOR}
 # missing TEST_DEPENDS: jaxlib, joblibspark, py7zr, pyspark, tensorflow
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	pep517 concurrent autoplist pytest
 
 TEST_ENV=	${MAKE_ENV} PYTHONPATH=${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 pre-test: # prevent failure due to missing pyspark
 	@${RM} ${WRKSRC}/tests/packaged_modules/test_spark.py
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/misc/py-datasets/distinfo b/misc/py-datasets/distinfo
index 6a0baa6a8083..062a337e1a62 100644
--- a/misc/py-datasets/distinfo
+++ b/misc/py-datasets/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1722803032
-SHA256 (datasets-2.20.0.tar.gz) = 3c4dbcd27e0f642b9d41d20ff2efa721a5e04b32b2ca4009e0fc9139e324553f
-SIZE (datasets-2.20.0.tar.gz) = 2225757
+TIMESTAMP = 1726883526
+SHA256 (datasets-2.21.0.tar.gz) = 998f85a8460f1bd982e5bd058f8a0808eef424249e3df1e8cdd594ccd0dc8ba2
+SIZE (datasets-2.21.0.tar.gz) = 2215317
diff --git a/misc/py-datasets/files/patch-setup.py b/misc/py-datasets/files/patch-setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index d28e71a481c8..000000000000
--- a/misc/py-datasets/files/patch-setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- setup.py.orig	2024-08-05 18:50:31 UTC
-+++ setup.py
-@@ -115,8 +115,6 @@ REQUIRED_PKGS = [
-     # Backend and serialization.
-     # Minimum 15.0.0 to be able to cast dictionary types to their underlying types
-     "pyarrow>=15.0.0",
--    # As long as we allow pyarrow < 14.0.1, to fix vulnerability CVE-2023-47248
--    "pyarrow-hotfix",
-     # For smart caching dataset processing
-     "dill>=0.3.0,<0.3.9",  # tmp pin until dill has official support for determinism see https://github.com/uqfoundation/dill/issues/19
-     # For performance gains with apache arrow
diff --git a/misc/py-datasets/files/patch-src_datasets_features_features.py b/misc/py-datasets/files/patch-src_datasets_features_features.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 9a4e24c28ec6..000000000000
--- a/misc/py-datasets/files/patch-src_datasets_features_features.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- src/datasets/features/features.py.orig	2024-08-05 18:52:07 UTC
-+++ src/datasets/features/features.py
-@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ import pyarrow.types
- import pyarrow as pa
- import pyarrow.compute as pc
- import pyarrow.types
--import pyarrow_hotfix  # noqa: F401  # to fix vulnerability on pyarrow<14.0.1
- from pandas.api.extensions import ExtensionArray as PandasExtensionArray
- from pandas.api.extensions import ExtensionDtype as PandasExtensionDtype
-