diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-matscipy.yml b/.github/workflows/build-matscipy.yml
index 0afaa146933c..28649838e9c7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-matscipy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-matscipy.yml
@@ -73,12 +73,16 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Patch matscipy source
         run: |
-          git apply python-wheels/patches/matscipy/${{ env.MATSCIPY_VERSION }}/*.patch
+          # 1.3.0 ships all of 1.2.0's fixes upstream, so not every version has a patch dir.
+          patches="python-wheels/patches/matscipy/${{ env.MATSCIPY_VERSION }}"
+          if [ -d "$patches" ]; then
+            git apply "$patches"/*.patch
+          fi
           # meson-python reads the wheel version from `git describe` on this tree; a
           # dirty tree gives "1.2.0.dirty", which packaging.version.Version rejects
           # outright (InvalidVersion), failing the build before compilation even
           # starts. Hide just the patched files from dirty-detection instead.
-          git diff --name-only | xargs git update-index --skip-worktree
+          git diff --name-only | xargs -r git update-index --skip-worktree
 
       - name: Build wheels
         uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@1828c10ab37f080699c7b81cea34097c684a7074  # v4.2.0
diff --git a/docs/packages/matscipy.yaml b/docs/packages/matscipy.yaml
index 84d81baef9cf..effcfa8bcd74 100644
--- a/docs/packages/matscipy.yaml
+++ b/docs/packages/matscipy.yaml
@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@ versions:
   - filename: matscipy-1.2.0-cp314-cp314-manylinux_2_34_riscv64.manylinux_2_39_riscv64.whl
     sha256: edec7c83ef02d487442a94a3b4ad5f2f180d4f98ae927c6628eb0b54e2b6a8da
     requires-python: '>=3.9.0'
+- version: 1.3.0