diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-pandas/patches/version-relaxation.patch b/srcpkgs/python3-pandas/patches/version-relaxation.patch
index 95456cbdca9..c94e5fa170e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python3-pandas/patches/version-relaxation.patch
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-pandas/patches/version-relaxation.patch
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 --- ./pyproject.toml.orig	2023-10-02 14:33:56.359267774 -0400
 +++ ./pyproject.toml	2023-10-02 14:35:29.662565059 -0400
-@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@
+@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
  # Minimum requirements for the build system to execute.
  # See https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/12940 for the AIX issue.
  requires = [
@@ -11,13 +11,6 @@
      "wheel",
      "Cython>=0.29.33,<3",  # Note: sync with setup.py, environment.yml and asv.conf.json
      # Note: numpy 1.25 has a backwards compatible C API by default
-     # we don't want to force users to compile with 1.25 though
-     # (Ideally, in the future, though, oldest-supported-numpy can be dropped when our min numpy is 1.25.x)
--    "oldest-supported-numpy>=2022.8.16; python_version<'3.12'",
-+    "numpy>=1.23.2; python_version<'3.12'",
-     "numpy>=1.26.0; python_version>='3.12'",
-     "versioneer[toml]"
- ]
 --- ./meson.build.orig	2023-10-02 14:42:02.161816469 -0400
 +++ ./meson.build	2023-09-20 15:24:13.000000000 -0400
 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-pandas/template b/srcpkgs/python3-pandas/template
index 344b9f38313..c386c25010a 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python3-pandas/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-pandas/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'python3-pandas'
 pkgname=python3-pandas
-version=2.1.1
+version=2.1.2
 revision=1
 build_style=python3-pep517
 build_helper="meson numpy"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ license="BSD-3-Clause"
 homepage="https://pandas.pydata.org/"
 changelog="https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/whatsnew/index.html"
 distfiles="https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=853a0d3c3af28821436ae45619ef6e07b9748f2bd5a1a0c0356320f968a0a64b
+checksum=83bf1b17cbfc0dc9349d8dbc88f198aa602e489837180806cb473fe43746c26d
 # Builds seem to sometimes have missing symbol problems;
 # the intermittent nature suggests this might be a race
 disable_parallel_build=yes