diff --git a/mkdocs/docs/api.md b/mkdocs/docs/api.md
index b23f7b976e..621cbca119 100644
--- a/mkdocs/docs/api.md
+++ b/mkdocs/docs/api.md
@@ -2123,7 +2123,7 @@ PyIceberg integrates with [Apache DataFusion](https://datafusion.apache.org/) th
 
     The integration has a few caveats:
 
-    - Only works with `datafusion == 51`, aligns with the version used in `pyiceberg-core`
+    - Only works with `datafusion == 52`, aligns with the version used in `pyiceberg-core`
     - Depends directly on `iceberg-rust` instead of PyIceberg's implementation
     - Has limited features compared to the full PyIceberg API
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 894a946667..77a36f0435 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -93,7 +93,10 @@ sql-sqlite = ["sqlalchemy>=2.0.18,<3"]
 gcsfs = ["gcsfs>=2023.1.0"]
 rest-sigv4 = ["boto3>=1.24.59"]
 hf = ["huggingface-hub>=0.24.0"]
-pyiceberg-core = ["pyiceberg-core>=0.5.1,<0.10.0"]
+# `pyiceberg-core` bundles a `datafusion-ffi` build, and the DataFusion FFI ABI is not stable
+# across major versions (https://github.com/apache/datafusion/issues/17374). The two ranges below
+# must name the same DataFusion major version: pyiceberg-core 0.9.x bundles datafusion-ffi 52.x.
+pyiceberg-core = ["pyiceberg-core>=0.9.0,<0.10.0"]
 datafusion = ["datafusion>=52,<53"]
 gcp-auth = ["google-auth>=2.4.0"]
 entra-auth = ["azure-identity>=1.25.1"]
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 3351821808..cdad6faaa6 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -5053,7 +5053,7 @@ requires-dist = [
     { name = "pyarrow", marker = "extra == 'pyarrow'", specifier = ">=18.0.0" },
     { name = "pyarrow", marker = "extra == 'ray'", specifier = ">=18.0.0" },
     { name = "pydantic", specifier = ">=2.0,!=2.4.0,!=2.4.1,!=2.12.0,!=2.12.1,<3.0" },
-    { name = "pyiceberg-core", marker = "extra == 'pyiceberg-core'", specifier = ">=0.5.1,<0.10.0" },
+    { name = "pyiceberg-core", marker = "extra == 'pyiceberg-core'", specifier = ">=0.9.0,<0.10.0" },
     { name = "pyparsing", specifier = ">=3.1.0" },
     { name = "pyroaring", specifier = ">=1.0.0" },
     { name = "python-snappy", marker = "extra == 'snappy'", specifier = ">=0.6.0" },