From b8c378ddbb22bc7a6a7b235776ed6706213462b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AlenkaF <frim.alenka@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:11:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/8] Squash: all 10 commits

---
 .../linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile     |  7 ++++++-
 ...free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile | 11 ++++++-----
 .../python-wheel-windows-test-vs2022-base.dockerfile  |  2 +-
 ci/docker/python-wheel-windows-vs2022-base.dockerfile |  2 +-
 python/pyarrow/tests/test_cython.py                   | 10 ++++++++++
 python/pyarrow/tests/test_extension_type.py           |  5 +++++
 6 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile b/ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile
index f5505e67f00..fe63524d5df 100644
--- a/ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile
+++ b/ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile
@@ -32,13 +32,18 @@ COPY python/requirements-build.txt \
 
 ENV ARROW_PYTHON_VENV /arrow-dev
 RUN python3.13t -m venv ${ARROW_PYTHON_VENV}
+
+# Free-threaded CPython 3.13 needs pinned cffi version
+RUN sed '/^cffi/d' /arrow/python/requirements-test.txt > /arrow/python/requirements-patched.txt && \
+    echo "cffi<2.0.0" >> /arrow/python/requirements-patched.txt
+
 RUN ${ARROW_PYTHON_VENV}/bin/python -m pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
 RUN ${ARROW_PYTHON_VENV}/bin/python -m pip install \
       --pre \
       --prefer-binary \
       --extra-index-url "https://pypi.anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/simple" \
       -r arrow/python/requirements-build.txt \
-      -r arrow/python/requirements-test.txt
+      -r arrow/python/requirements-patched.txt
 
 # We want to run the PyArrow test suite with the GIL disabled, but cffi
 # (more precisely, the `_cffi_backend` module) currently doesn't declare
diff --git a/ci/docker/python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile b/ci/docker/python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile
index 4b972999b04..6bbea25fe24 100644
--- a/ci/docker/python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile
+++ b/ci/docker/python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile
@@ -38,15 +38,16 @@ SHELL ["cmd", "/S", "/C"]
 RUN %PYTHON_CMD% -m pip install -U pip setuptools
 
 COPY python/requirements-wheel-test.txt C:/arrow/python/
+
+# Free-threaded CPython 3.13 needs pinned cffi version
 # Cython and Pandas wheels for 3.13 free-threaded are not released yet
-RUN %PYTHON_CMD% -m pip install \
+RUN findstr /V cffi C:\arrow\python\requirements-wheel-test.txt > C:\arrow\python\requirements-patched.txt && \
+    echo cffi^<2.0.0 >> C:\arrow\python\requirements-patched.txt && \
+    %PYTHON_CMD% -m pip install \
     --extra-index-url https://pypi.anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/simple \
     --pre \
     --prefer-binary \
-    -r C:/arrow/python/requirements-wheel-test.txt
-# cffi-based tests would crash when importing cffi.
-# hadolint ignore=DL3059
-RUN %PYTHON_CMD% -m pip uninstall -y cffi
+    -r C:/arrow/python/requirements-patched.txt
 
 ENV PYTHON="${python}t"
 ENV PYTHON_GIL=0
diff --git a/ci/docker/python-wheel-windows-test-vs2022-base.dockerfile b/ci/docker/python-wheel-windows-test-vs2022-base.dockerfile
index 1d1602c03a2..e77f4af36b8 100644
--- a/ci/docker/python-wheel-windows-test-vs2022-base.dockerfile
+++ b/ci/docker/python-wheel-windows-test-vs2022-base.dockerfile
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ RUN `
     --installPath "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools" `
     --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.CoreBuildTools `
     --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.x86.x64 `
-    --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows10SDK.20348 `
+    --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows10SDK.26100 `
     --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.CMake.Project `
     || IF "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="3010" EXIT 0) `
     && del /q vs_buildtools.exe
diff --git a/ci/docker/python-wheel-windows-vs2022-base.dockerfile b/ci/docker/python-wheel-windows-vs2022-base.dockerfile
index 7f683487a8c..978da9fb0b9 100644
--- a/ci/docker/python-wheel-windows-vs2022-base.dockerfile
+++ b/ci/docker/python-wheel-windows-vs2022-base.dockerfile
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ RUN `
   --installPath "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools" `
   --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.CoreBuildTools `
   --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.x86.x64 `
-  --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows10SDK.20348 `
+  --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows10SDK.26100 `
   --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.CMake.Project `
   || IF "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="3010" EXIT 0) `
   && del /q vs_buildtools.exe
diff --git a/python/pyarrow/tests/test_cython.py b/python/pyarrow/tests/test_cython.py
index e0116a4bb76..f09d460f26a 100644
--- a/python/pyarrow/tests/test_cython.py
+++ b/python/pyarrow/tests/test_cython.py
@@ -107,6 +107,11 @@ def test_cython_api(tmpdir):
         # PYTHONPATH, for local dev environments
         subprocess_env = test_util.get_modified_env_with_pythonpath()
 
+        # Add Windows SDK include path manually
+        subprocess_env["INCLUDE"] = (
+            "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Kits\\10\\Include\\10.0.26100.0\\ucrt;"
+            + subprocess_env.get("INCLUDE", "")
+        )
         # Compile extension module
         subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, 'setup.py',
                                'build_ext', '--inplace'],
@@ -181,6 +186,11 @@ def test_visit_strings(tmpdir):
 
         subprocess_env = test_util.get_modified_env_with_pythonpath()
 
+        # Add Windows SDK include path manually
+        subprocess_env["INCLUDE"] = (
+            "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Kits\\10\\Include\\10.0.26100.0\\ucrt;"
+            + subprocess_env.get("INCLUDE", "")
+        )
         # Compile extension module
         subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, 'setup.py',
                                'build_ext', '--inplace'],
diff --git a/python/pyarrow/tests/test_extension_type.py b/python/pyarrow/tests/test_extension_type.py
index ebac37e862b..e565612cbae 100644
--- a/python/pyarrow/tests/test_extension_type.py
+++ b/python/pyarrow/tests/test_extension_type.py
@@ -1345,6 +1345,11 @@ def test_cpp_extension_in_python(tmpdir):
 
         subprocess_env = test_util.get_modified_env_with_pythonpath()
 
+        # Add Windows SDK include path manually
+        subprocess_env["INCLUDE"] = (
+            "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Kits\\10\\Include\\10.0.26100.0\\ucrt;"
+            + subprocess_env.get("INCLUDE", "")
+        )
         # Compile extension module
         subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, 'setup.py',
                                'build_ext', '--inplace'],

From 1e13f4a94c5e9bae8822d5d5ea14ae26f4e808c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AlenkaF <frim.alenka@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:11:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/8] Revert "Squash: all 10 commits"

This reverts commit b8c378ddbb22bc7a6a7b235776ed6706213462b1.
---
 .../linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile     |  7 +------
 ...free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile | 11 +++++------
 .../python-wheel-windows-test-vs2022-base.dockerfile  |  2 +-
 ci/docker/python-wheel-windows-vs2022-base.dockerfile |  2 +-
 python/pyarrow/tests/test_cython.py                   | 10 ----------
 python/pyarrow/tests/test_extension_type.py           |  5 -----
 6 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile b/ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile
index fe63524d5df..f5505e67f00 100644
--- a/ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile
+++ b/ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile
@@ -32,18 +32,13 @@ COPY python/requirements-build.txt \
 
 ENV ARROW_PYTHON_VENV /arrow-dev
 RUN python3.13t -m venv ${ARROW_PYTHON_VENV}
-
-# Free-threaded CPython 3.13 needs pinned cffi version
-RUN sed '/^cffi/d' /arrow/python/requirements-test.txt > /arrow/python/requirements-patched.txt && \
-    echo "cffi<2.0.0" >> /arrow/python/requirements-patched.txt
-
 RUN ${ARROW_PYTHON_VENV}/bin/python -m pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
 RUN ${ARROW_PYTHON_VENV}/bin/python -m pip install \
       --pre \
       --prefer-binary \
       --extra-index-url "https://pypi.anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/simple" \
       -r arrow/python/requirements-build.txt \
-      -r arrow/python/requirements-patched.txt
+      -r arrow/python/requirements-test.txt
 
 # We want to run the PyArrow test suite with the GIL disabled, but cffi
 # (more precisely, the `_cffi_backend` module) currently doesn't declare
diff --git a/ci/docker/python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile b/ci/docker/python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile
index 6bbea25fe24..4b972999b04 100644
--- a/ci/docker/python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile
+++ b/ci/docker/python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile
@@ -38,16 +38,15 @@ SHELL ["cmd", "/S", "/C"]
 RUN %PYTHON_CMD% -m pip install -U pip setuptools
 
 COPY python/requirements-wheel-test.txt C:/arrow/python/
-
-# Free-threaded CPython 3.13 needs pinned cffi version
 # Cython and Pandas wheels for 3.13 free-threaded are not released yet
-RUN findstr /V cffi C:\arrow\python\requirements-wheel-test.txt > C:\arrow\python\requirements-patched.txt && \
-    echo cffi^<2.0.0 >> C:\arrow\python\requirements-patched.txt && \
-    %PYTHON_CMD% -m pip install \
+RUN %PYTHON_CMD% -m pip install \
     --extra-index-url https://pypi.anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/simple \
     --pre \
     --prefer-binary \
-    -r C:/arrow/python/requirements-patched.txt
+    -r C:/arrow/python/requirements-wheel-test.txt
+# cffi-based tests would crash when importing cffi.
+# hadolint ignore=DL3059
+RUN %PYTHON_CMD% -m pip uninstall -y cffi
 
 ENV PYTHON="${python}t"
 ENV PYTHON_GIL=0
diff --git a/ci/docker/python-wheel-windows-test-vs2022-base.dockerfile b/ci/docker/python-wheel-windows-test-vs2022-base.dockerfile
index e77f4af36b8..1d1602c03a2 100644
--- a/ci/docker/python-wheel-windows-test-vs2022-base.dockerfile
+++ b/ci/docker/python-wheel-windows-test-vs2022-base.dockerfile
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ RUN `
     --installPath "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools" `
     --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.CoreBuildTools `
     --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.x86.x64 `
-    --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows10SDK.26100 `
+    --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows10SDK.20348 `
     --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.CMake.Project `
     || IF "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="3010" EXIT 0) `
     && del /q vs_buildtools.exe
diff --git a/ci/docker/python-wheel-windows-vs2022-base.dockerfile b/ci/docker/python-wheel-windows-vs2022-base.dockerfile
index 978da9fb0b9..7f683487a8c 100644
--- a/ci/docker/python-wheel-windows-vs2022-base.dockerfile
+++ b/ci/docker/python-wheel-windows-vs2022-base.dockerfile
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ RUN `
   --installPath "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools" `
   --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.CoreBuildTools `
   --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.x86.x64 `
-  --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows10SDK.26100 `
+  --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows10SDK.20348 `
   --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.CMake.Project `
   || IF "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="3010" EXIT 0) `
   && del /q vs_buildtools.exe
diff --git a/python/pyarrow/tests/test_cython.py b/python/pyarrow/tests/test_cython.py
index f09d460f26a..e0116a4bb76 100644
--- a/python/pyarrow/tests/test_cython.py
+++ b/python/pyarrow/tests/test_cython.py
@@ -107,11 +107,6 @@ def test_cython_api(tmpdir):
         # PYTHONPATH, for local dev environments
         subprocess_env = test_util.get_modified_env_with_pythonpath()
 
-        # Add Windows SDK include path manually
-        subprocess_env["INCLUDE"] = (
-            "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Kits\\10\\Include\\10.0.26100.0\\ucrt;"
-            + subprocess_env.get("INCLUDE", "")
-        )
         # Compile extension module
         subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, 'setup.py',
                                'build_ext', '--inplace'],
@@ -186,11 +181,6 @@ def test_visit_strings(tmpdir):
 
         subprocess_env = test_util.get_modified_env_with_pythonpath()
 
-        # Add Windows SDK include path manually
-        subprocess_env["INCLUDE"] = (
-            "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Kits\\10\\Include\\10.0.26100.0\\ucrt;"
-            + subprocess_env.get("INCLUDE", "")
-        )
         # Compile extension module
         subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, 'setup.py',
                                'build_ext', '--inplace'],
diff --git a/python/pyarrow/tests/test_extension_type.py b/python/pyarrow/tests/test_extension_type.py
index e565612cbae..ebac37e862b 100644
--- a/python/pyarrow/tests/test_extension_type.py
+++ b/python/pyarrow/tests/test_extension_type.py
@@ -1345,11 +1345,6 @@ def test_cpp_extension_in_python(tmpdir):
 
         subprocess_env = test_util.get_modified_env_with_pythonpath()
 
-        # Add Windows SDK include path manually
-        subprocess_env["INCLUDE"] = (
-            "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Kits\\10\\Include\\10.0.26100.0\\ucrt;"
-            + subprocess_env.get("INCLUDE", "")
-        )
         # Compile extension module
         subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, 'setup.py',
                                'build_ext', '--inplace'],

From 1df829dc9df119f53efe127c6dbd7e1ce229d4c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AlenkaF <frim.alenka@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:14:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 3/8] Use environment markers

---
 python/requirements-test.txt       | 3 ++-
 python/requirements-wheel-test.txt | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/python/requirements-test.txt b/python/requirements-test.txt
index 4339aeb9c16..affe8a74219 100644
--- a/python/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/python/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-cffi
+cffi; python_version != '3.13t'
+cffi<2.0.0; python_version == '3.13t'
 hypothesis
 packaging
 pandas
diff --git a/python/requirements-wheel-test.txt b/python/requirements-wheel-test.txt
index 06c059f591f..d4299b79b60 100644
--- a/python/requirements-wheel-test.txt
+++ b/python/requirements-wheel-test.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-cffi
+cffi; python_version != '3.13t'
+cffi<2.0.0; python_version == '3.13t'
 cython
 hypothesis
 packaging

From a41c8ceac4367af402079839daa42f875a6520a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AlenkaF <frim.alenka@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 07:45:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 4/8] Bring back dockerfile patches only for 3.13 version

---
 ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile  | 7 ++++++-
 ...on-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile | 9 ++++-----
 python/requirements-test.txt                             | 3 +--
 python/requirements-wheel-test.txt                       | 3 +--
 4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile b/ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile
index f5505e67f00..5413d846785 100644
--- a/ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile
+++ b/ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile
@@ -32,13 +32,18 @@ COPY python/requirements-build.txt \
 
 ENV ARROW_PYTHON_VENV /arrow-dev
 RUN python3.13t -m venv ${ARROW_PYTHON_VENV}
+
+# cffi does not support free-threaded CPython 3.13
+# Remove next line with Python 3.14t!
+RUN sed '/^cffi/d' /arrow/python/requirements-test.txt > /arrow/python/requirements-patched.txt
+
 RUN ${ARROW_PYTHON_VENV}/bin/python -m pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
 RUN ${ARROW_PYTHON_VENV}/bin/python -m pip install \
       --pre \
       --prefer-binary \
       --extra-index-url "https://pypi.anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/simple" \
       -r arrow/python/requirements-build.txt \
-      -r arrow/python/requirements-test.txt
+      -r arrow/python/requirements-patched.txt
 
 # We want to run the PyArrow test suite with the GIL disabled, but cffi
 # (more precisely, the `_cffi_backend` module) currently doesn't declare
diff --git a/ci/docker/python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile b/ci/docker/python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile
index 4b972999b04..5c0b59a94ba 100644
--- a/ci/docker/python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile
+++ b/ci/docker/python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile
@@ -39,14 +39,13 @@ RUN %PYTHON_CMD% -m pip install -U pip setuptools
 
 COPY python/requirements-wheel-test.txt C:/arrow/python/
 # Cython and Pandas wheels for 3.13 free-threaded are not released yet
-RUN %PYTHON_CMD% -m pip install \
+# cffi does not support free-threaded CPython 3.13, remove findstr line with Python 3.14t!
+RUN findstr /V cffi C:/arrow/python/requirements-wheel-test.txt > C:/arrow/python/requirements-patched.txt ; \
+    %PYTHON_CMD% -m pip install \
     --extra-index-url https://pypi.anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/simple \
     --pre \
     --prefer-binary \
-    -r C:/arrow/python/requirements-wheel-test.txt
-# cffi-based tests would crash when importing cffi.
-# hadolint ignore=DL3059
-RUN %PYTHON_CMD% -m pip uninstall -y cffi
+    -r C:/arrow/python/requirements-patched.txt
 
 ENV PYTHON="${python}t"
 ENV PYTHON_GIL=0
diff --git a/python/requirements-test.txt b/python/requirements-test.txt
index affe8a74219..4339aeb9c16 100644
--- a/python/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/python/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-cffi; python_version != '3.13t'
-cffi<2.0.0; python_version == '3.13t'
+cffi
 hypothesis
 packaging
 pandas
diff --git a/python/requirements-wheel-test.txt b/python/requirements-wheel-test.txt
index d4299b79b60..06c059f591f 100644
--- a/python/requirements-wheel-test.txt
+++ b/python/requirements-wheel-test.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-cffi; python_version != '3.13t'
-cffi<2.0.0; python_version == '3.13t'
+cffi
 cython
 hypothesis
 packaging

From 5367be4258058f7f669422a0c33d031a11048ff4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AlenkaF <frim.alenka@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 09:01:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 5/8] Use a separate requirements file instead

---
 ...ux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile |  9 ++-------
 ...eaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile |  8 +++-----
 python/requirements-test-3.13t.txt            |  6 ++++++
 python/requirements-wheel-test-3.13t.txt      | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 python/requirements-test-3.13t.txt
 create mode 100644 python/requirements-wheel-test-3.13t.txt

diff --git a/ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile b/ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile
index 5413d846785..540499e7a82 100644
--- a/ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile
+++ b/ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile
@@ -27,23 +27,18 @@ RUN apt-get update -y -q && \
     rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists*
 
 COPY python/requirements-build.txt \
-     python/requirements-test.txt \
+     python/requirements-test-3.13t.txt \
      /arrow/python/
 
 ENV ARROW_PYTHON_VENV /arrow-dev
 RUN python3.13t -m venv ${ARROW_PYTHON_VENV}
-
-# cffi does not support free-threaded CPython 3.13
-# Remove next line with Python 3.14t!
-RUN sed '/^cffi/d' /arrow/python/requirements-test.txt > /arrow/python/requirements-patched.txt
-
 RUN ${ARROW_PYTHON_VENV}/bin/python -m pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
 RUN ${ARROW_PYTHON_VENV}/bin/python -m pip install \
       --pre \
       --prefer-binary \
       --extra-index-url "https://pypi.anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/simple" \
       -r arrow/python/requirements-build.txt \
-      -r arrow/python/requirements-patched.txt
+      -r arrow/python/requirements-test.txt
 
 # We want to run the PyArrow test suite with the GIL disabled, but cffi
 # (more precisely, the `_cffi_backend` module) currently doesn't declare
diff --git a/ci/docker/python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile b/ci/docker/python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile
index 5c0b59a94ba..723d0caa320 100644
--- a/ci/docker/python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile
+++ b/ci/docker/python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile
@@ -37,15 +37,13 @@ ENV PYTHON_CMD="py -${python}t"
 SHELL ["cmd", "/S", "/C"]
 RUN %PYTHON_CMD% -m pip install -U pip setuptools
 
-COPY python/requirements-wheel-test.txt C:/arrow/python/
+COPY python/requirements-wheel-test-3.13t.txt C:/arrow/python/
 # Cython and Pandas wheels for 3.13 free-threaded are not released yet
-# cffi does not support free-threaded CPython 3.13, remove findstr line with Python 3.14t!
-RUN findstr /V cffi C:/arrow/python/requirements-wheel-test.txt > C:/arrow/python/requirements-patched.txt ; \
-    %PYTHON_CMD% -m pip install \
+RUN %PYTHON_CMD% -m pip install \
     --extra-index-url https://pypi.anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/simple \
     --pre \
     --prefer-binary \
-    -r C:/arrow/python/requirements-patched.txt
+    -r C:/arrow/python/requirements-test.txt
 
 ENV PYTHON="${python}t"
 ENV PYTHON_GIL=0
diff --git a/python/requirements-test-3.13t.txt b/python/requirements-test-3.13t.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..75836c4d6c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/requirements-test-3.13t.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+hypothesis
+packaging
+pandas
+pytest
+pytz
+pyuwsgi; sys.platform != 'win32' and python_version < '3.13'
diff --git a/python/requirements-wheel-test-3.13t.txt b/python/requirements-wheel-test-3.13t.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1349b01d88e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/requirements-wheel-test-3.13t.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+cython
+hypothesis
+packaging
+pytest
+pytz
+pyuwsgi; sys.platform != 'win32' and python_version < '3.13'
+requests; sys_platform == 'win32'
+tzdata; sys_platform == 'win32'
+
+# We generally test with the oldest numpy version that supports a given Python
+# version. However, there is no need to make this strictly the oldest version,
+# so it can be broadened to have a single version specification across platforms.
+# (`~=x.y.z` specifies a compatible release as `>=x.y.z, == x.y.*`)
+numpy~=1.21.3; python_version < "3.11"
+numpy~=1.23.2; python_version == "3.11"
+numpy~=1.26.0; python_version == "3.12"
+numpy~=2.1.0; python_version >= "3.13"
+
+pandas

From be6ca4c0ef397a6c09656b3dabf1d61ba33b6938 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AlenkaF <frim.alenka@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 09:03:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 6/8] Fix typo

---
 ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile         | 2 +-
 .../python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile b/ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile
index 540499e7a82..ceed5bac7e7 100644
--- a/ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile
+++ b/ci/docker/linux-apt-python-313-freethreading.dockerfile
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ RUN ${ARROW_PYTHON_VENV}/bin/python -m pip install \
       --prefer-binary \
       --extra-index-url "https://pypi.anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/simple" \
       -r arrow/python/requirements-build.txt \
-      -r arrow/python/requirements-test.txt
+      -r arrow/python/requirements-test-3.13t.txt
 
 # We want to run the PyArrow test suite with the GIL disabled, but cffi
 # (more precisely, the `_cffi_backend` module) currently doesn't declare
diff --git a/ci/docker/python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile b/ci/docker/python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile
index 723d0caa320..5b27c786ff4 100644
--- a/ci/docker/python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile
+++ b/ci/docker/python-free-threaded-wheel-windows-test-vs2022.dockerfile
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ RUN %PYTHON_CMD% -m pip install \
     --extra-index-url https://pypi.anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/simple \
     --pre \
     --prefer-binary \
-    -r C:/arrow/python/requirements-test.txt
+    -r C:/arrow/python/requirements-wheel-test-3.13t.txt
 
 ENV PYTHON="${python}t"
 ENV PYTHON_GIL=0

From 430f26bc0ca01f68b770f1aede76aafd1060768d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AlenkaF <frim.alenka@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 08:05:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 7/8] Simplify requirements

---
 python/requirements-test-3.13t.txt       |  1 -
 python/requirements-wheel-test-3.13t.txt | 11 +----------
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/python/requirements-test-3.13t.txt b/python/requirements-test-3.13t.txt
index 75836c4d6c4..9c2e8de25eb 100644
--- a/python/requirements-test-3.13t.txt
+++ b/python/requirements-test-3.13t.txt
@@ -3,4 +3,3 @@ packaging
 pandas
 pytest
 pytz
-pyuwsgi; sys.platform != 'win32' and python_version < '3.13'
diff --git a/python/requirements-wheel-test-3.13t.txt b/python/requirements-wheel-test-3.13t.txt
index 1349b01d88e..fbc2a854f93 100644
--- a/python/requirements-wheel-test-3.13t.txt
+++ b/python/requirements-wheel-test-3.13t.txt
@@ -3,17 +3,8 @@ hypothesis
 packaging
 pytest
 pytz
-pyuwsgi; sys.platform != 'win32' and python_version < '3.13'
 requests; sys_platform == 'win32'
 tzdata; sys_platform == 'win32'
-
-# We generally test with the oldest numpy version that supports a given Python
-# version. However, there is no need to make this strictly the oldest version,
-# so it can be broadened to have a single version specification across platforms.
-# (`~=x.y.z` specifies a compatible release as `>=x.y.z, == x.y.*`)
-numpy~=1.21.3; python_version < "3.11"
-numpy~=1.23.2; python_version == "3.11"
-numpy~=1.26.0; python_version == "3.12"
-numpy~=2.1.0; python_version >= "3.13"
+numpy~=2.1.0
 
 pandas

From c5c8e4e3a39038557cbd9bb709bac37821faf748 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AlenkaF <frim.alenka@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 08:09:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 8/8] Reorganise requirements-wheel-test-3.13t

---
 python/requirements-wheel-test-3.13t.txt | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/python/requirements-wheel-test-3.13t.txt b/python/requirements-wheel-test-3.13t.txt
index fbc2a854f93..009b7d6b31f 100644
--- a/python/requirements-wheel-test-3.13t.txt
+++ b/python/requirements-wheel-test-3.13t.txt
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 cython
 hypothesis
+numpy~=2.1.0
 packaging
+pandas
 pytest
 pytz
 requests; sys_platform == 'win32'
 tzdata; sys_platform == 'win32'
-numpy~=2.1.0
-
-pandas