diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-geventhttpclient.yml b/.github/workflows/build-geventhttpclient.yml
index dc0d5d1e85a..ec81e66a840 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-geventhttpclient.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-geventhttpclient.yml
@@ -78,10 +78,13 @@ jobs:
           persist-credentials: false
 
       # llhttp is compiled into the extension under its own MIT notice, which
-      # upstream's wheels do not ship.
+      # upstream's wheels do not ship before 2.6.0, so only older versions are patched.
       - name: Patch geventhttpclient source
         run: |
-          git apply python-wheels/patches/geventhttpclient/${{ env.GEVENTHTTPCLIENT_VERSION }}/00*.patch
+          patches="$PWD/python-wheels/patches/geventhttpclient/${GEVENTHTTPCLIENT_VERSION}"
+          if [ -d "$patches" ]; then
+            git apply -v "$patches"/*.patch
+          fi
 
       # musllinux is skipped: our registry carries gevent and brotli for
       # manylinux riscv64 only, so a musl wheel could be neither installed nor tested.
@@ -99,7 +102,7 @@ jobs:
           CIBW_TEST_COMMAND: >-
             python -c "import importlib.metadata as m;
             l = {str(p).split('.dist-info/licenses/')[1] for p in m.files('geventhttpclient') if '.dist-info/licenses/' in str(p)};
-            assert l == {'LICENSE-MIT', 'llhttp/LICENSE-MIT'}, l" &&
+            assert l in ({'LICENSE-MIT', 'llhttp/LICENSE-MIT'}, {'LICENSE-MIT', 'llhttp/LICENSE'}), l" &&
             python -m pytest tests
 
       # The only proof the untested cp314t wheel really carries the extension.
diff --git a/docs/packages/geventhttpclient.yaml b/docs/packages/geventhttpclient.yaml
index 20a45f05192..4a46719deaa 100644
--- a/docs/packages/geventhttpclient.yaml
+++ b/docs/packages/geventhttpclient.yaml
@@ -66,3 +66,5 @@ versions:
   - filename: geventhttpclient-2.5.1-cp314-cp314t-manylinux_2_31_riscv64.manylinux_2_39_riscv64.whl
     sha256: b818e5a131b0e8f34c7282786c9b9f2c42fdbcb1be7c4db8275d2ff94c522e5c
     requires-python: '>=3.11'
+- version: 2.6.0
+- version: 2.6.1