diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-onnxsim.yml b/.github/workflows/build-onnxsim.yml
index 1339b7eb6d9..b27d75c4185 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-onnxsim.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-onnxsim.yml
@@ -94,7 +94,11 @@ jobs:
           path: python-wheels
           persist-credentials: false
 
+      # 0.7.3 needs the test_profiling ir_version pin; 0.8.1 ships it (its
+      # _model() helper pins ir_version=10), so later versions may have no
+      # patches/ directory at all.
       - name: Apply patches
+        if: hashFiles(format('python-wheels/patches/onnxsim/{0}/*.patch', env.ONNXSIM_VERSION)) != ''
         run: git apply -v python-wheels/patches/onnxsim/${{ env.ONNXSIM_VERSION }}/*.patch
 
       - name: Build wheels
diff --git a/docs/packages/onnxsim.yaml b/docs/packages/onnxsim.yaml
index 94fc399b58d..8d4d49ce9c2 100644
--- a/docs/packages/onnxsim.yaml
+++ b/docs/packages/onnxsim.yaml
@@ -23,3 +23,4 @@ versions:
   - filename: onnxsim-0.7.3-cp312-abi3-manylinux_2_39_riscv64.whl
     sha256: 630922bc5ff479b7616d602f3a8dc9d2bdf749096413be6990ce5e66cf89cfe7
     requires-python: '>=3.10'
+- version: 0.8.1