diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-ta-lib.yml b/.github/workflows/build-ta-lib.yml
index 297277c3789..d08fa6b559a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-ta-lib.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-ta-lib.yml
@@ -113,9 +113,11 @@ jobs:
           CIBW_REPAIR_WHEEL_COMMAND_LINUX: |
             LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/project/ta-lib-install/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" auditwheel repair -w {dest_dir} {wheel}
           CIBW_BUILD_FRONTEND: build
-          CIBW_TEST_REQUIRES: pytest pandas
-          # test_polars.py imports polars unconditionally; no riscv64 polars
-          # wheel exists on PyPI or our registry to install it with.
+          # polars now has a riscv64 wheel on the registry; added so
+          # test_stream.py::test_a_result_pickles' inline `import polars`
+          # doesn't ModuleNotFoundError. test_polars.py itself stays
+          # ignored below (untouched, out of scope for this fix).
+          CIBW_TEST_REQUIRES: pytest pandas polars
           CIBW_TEST_COMMAND: >-
             cd .. &&
             pytest -k "not RSI and not threading" --ignore={project}/tests/test_polars.py {project}/tests
diff --git a/docs/packages/ta-lib.yaml b/docs/packages/ta-lib.yaml
index b95d478420c..9f2bbd84a63 100644
--- a/docs/packages/ta-lib.yaml
+++ b/docs/packages/ta-lib.yaml
@@ -29,3 +29,4 @@ versions:
   - filename: ta_lib-0.8.0-cp314-cp314-manylinux_2_31_riscv64.manylinux_2_39_riscv64.whl
     sha256: bc1c16857b8397131f981dce74c27bdd85857e700f56a6be7ec630881710023e
     requires-python: '>=3.9'
+- version: 0.8.1
diff --git a/patches/ta-lib/0.8.1/0001-Widen-license-files-to-cover-the-vendored-TA-Lib-C-l.patch b/patches/ta-lib/0.8.1/0001-Widen-license-files-to-cover-the-vendored-TA-Lib-C-l.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e263833f47c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/ta-lib/0.8.1/0001-Widen-license-files-to-cover-the-vendored-TA-Lib-C-l.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+From 4b6ec692350791f91c97014836fc04bb0986d102 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Ludovic Henry <git@ludovic.dev>
+Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:24:26 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] Widen license-files to cover the vendored TA-Lib C licence
+
+license-files = ["LICENSE"] is an explicit PEP 639 list, so it replaces
+setuptools' default LICEN[CS]E* glob rather than adding to it. The Linux,
+macOS and Windows wheels dynamically link libta-lib, built from the
+TA-Lib C library release that tools/build_talib_linux.sh (and its macOS/
+Windows equivalents) downloads at build time from TA-Lib/ta-lib, which is
+licensed under the 3-clause BSD licence whose clause 2 requires the
+copyright notice to be reproduced in binary redistributions -- but the
+built wheel ships only ta-lib-python's own LICENSE.
+
+Widening the list to also match LICENSE.* lets a LICENSE.ta-lib-c dropped
+at the project root reach dist-info/licenses/ with no other packaging
+change.
+
+Upstream-Status: To upstream [not yet submitted; the same gap exists in every ta-lib wheel on PyPI, so this needs a maintainer discussion rather than a drive-by PR]
+
+Signed-off-by: Ludovic Henry <git@ludovic.dev>
+---
+ pyproject.toml | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
+index 47d0c02f..2183be34 100644
+--- a/pyproject.toml
++++ b/pyproject.toml
+@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ name = "TA-Lib"
+ version = "0.8.1"
+ description = "Python wrapper for TA-Lib"
+ readme = "README.md"
+-license-files = ["LICENSE"]
++license-files = ["LICENSE", "LICENSE.*"]
+ authors = [
+     {name = "John Benediktsson", email = "mrjbq7@gmail.com"}
+ ]
+-- 
+2.43.0
+