diff --git a/0001-docs-update-example-for-newer-numpy.patch b/0001-docs-update-example-for-newer-numpy.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e46338a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-docs-update-example-for-newer-numpy.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From ed3998803650bec0666c3ca458df76fcd9293417 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
+Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:33:57 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] docs: update example for newer numpy
+
+File ".../usr/lib64/python3.14/site-packages/blosc/toplevel.py", line 515, in blosc.toplevel.compress_ptr
+Failed example:
+    np_ans = numpy.fromstring(d, dtype=np_array.dtype)
+Exception raised:
+    Traceback (most recent call last):
+    File "<doctest blosc.toplevel.compress_ptr[5]>", line 1, in <module>
+        np_ans = numpy.fromstring(d, dtype=np_array.dtype)
+    ValueError: The binary mode of fromstring is removed, use frombuffer instead
+---
+ blosc/toplevel.py | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/blosc/toplevel.py b/blosc/toplevel.py
+index 4d2d4139af..3ef2327618 100644
+--- a/blosc/toplevel.py
++++ b/blosc/toplevel.py
+@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ def compress_ptr(address, items, typesize=8, clevel=9, shuffle=blosc.SHUFFLE,
+     >>> c = blosc.compress_ptr(np_array.__array_interface__['data'][0], \
+         items, np_array.dtype.itemsize)
+     >>> d = blosc.decompress(c)
+-    >>> np_ans = numpy.fromstring(d, dtype=np_array.dtype)
++    >>> np_ans = numpy.frombuffer(d, dtype=np_array.dtype)
+     >>> bool((np_array == np_ans).all())
+     True
+ 
diff --git a/python-blosc.spec b/python-blosc.spec
index ff76a40..4e93d3a 100644
--- a/python-blosc.spec
+++ b/python-blosc.spec
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ URL:            https://github.com/Blosc/python-blosc
 Source0:        https://github.com/Blosc/python-blosc/archive/v%{version}/blosc-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Blosc/python-blosc/f3c5e341a2504a03c225f4f1d9066ccdf4bd31dd/setup.py
 
+Patch:          0001-docs-update-example-for-newer-numpy.patch
+
 BuildRequires:  gcc
 BuildRequires:  blosc-devel >= 1.16.0
 BuildRequires:  python%{python3_pkgversion}-devel