diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-spacy-alignments.yml b/.github/workflows/build-spacy-alignments.yml
index 7ac364bf8e53..5e97c83aa5c5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-spacy-alignments.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-spacy-alignments.yml
@@ -77,7 +77,12 @@ jobs:
           persist-credentials: false
 
       - name: Patch spacy-alignments source
-        run: git apply python-wheels/patches/spacy-alignments/${{ env.SPACY_ALIGNMENTS_VERSION }}/*.patch
+        # Only some versions need patching (the older tag needed the removed free-threaded-support option commented out; newer tags dropped it), so a missing directory is not an error.
+        run: |
+          patches="$PWD/python-wheels/patches/spacy-alignments/${{ env.SPACY_ALIGNMENTS_VERSION }}"
+          if [ -d "$patches" ]; then
+            git apply "$patches"/*.patch
+          fi
 
       - name: Build wheels
         uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@1828c10ab37f080699c7b81cea34097c684a7074  # v4.2.0
diff --git a/docs/packages/spacy-alignments.yaml b/docs/packages/spacy-alignments.yaml
index bb9c6edcd558..865e2b83056f 100644
--- a/docs/packages/spacy-alignments.yaml
+++ b/docs/packages/spacy-alignments.yaml
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@ versions:
   - filename: spacy_alignments-0.9.2-cp313-cp313-musllinux_1_2_riscv64.whl
     sha256: c7db7453d620d31bb7ee999393dda4a06a6fafa72361ee364c0113e1dbaedca5
     requires-python: <3.14,>=3.9
+- version: 0.9.3