diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-murmurhash.yml b/.github/workflows/build-murmurhash.yml
index a48e8ec5ef7b..22bc9c427f9a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-murmurhash.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-murmurhash.yml
@@ -76,9 +76,13 @@ jobs:
           path: python-wheels
           persist-credentials: false
 
+      # 1.0.15 needs the cpython-freethreading enable group dropped; 1.0.16 dropped
+      # it upstream and has no patch, so only apply what exists for this version.
       - name: Patch murmurhash source
         run: |
-          git apply python-wheels/patches/murmurhash/${{ env.MURMURHASH_VERSION }}/00*.patch
+          shopt -s nullglob
+          patches=(python-wheels/patches/murmurhash/${{ env.MURMURHASH_VERSION }}/00*.patch)
+          if (( ${#patches[@]} )); then git apply "${patches[@]}"; fi
 
       - name: Build wheels
         uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@1828c10ab37f080699c7b81cea34097c684a7074  # v4.2.0
diff --git a/docs/packages/murmurhash.yaml b/docs/packages/murmurhash.yaml
index 673b7f653396..babb54ad76fa 100644
--- a/docs/packages/murmurhash.yaml
+++ b/docs/packages/murmurhash.yaml
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@ versions:
   - filename: murmurhash-1.0.15-cp314-cp314t-manylinux_2_31_riscv64.manylinux_2_39_riscv64.whl
     sha256: 8362dd1550641cf4295e7d30c84d27cbac7fac09040ba2aac5dfa37f0da3065b
     requires-python: '>=3.6,<3.15'
+- version: 1.0.16