diff --git a/net-misc/yt-dlp/Manifest b/net-misc/yt-dlp/Manifest
index 5f77c8886843b..39fca823b8849 100644
--- a/net-misc/yt-dlp/Manifest
+++ b/net-misc/yt-dlp/Manifest
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 DIST yt-dlp-2025.09.26.tar.gz 6011138 BLAKE2B a17d878de8d6154166d099acc8a1e12b78d3930b4fa3e427607ee6ef7967095d329257be694daed5bd09d6754ef5ecec43c6f29620de1316036a0b1bb11daf08 SHA512 a1fabb096ec134d102a61c33fbf68c5f1749a62cf56e82de627744166db02e7ecf239e5244a9d9c474f65ddab7e6168dd70369d5407f655f964d25bfd731cd2e
 DIST yt-dlp-2025.10.14.tar.gz 6024964 BLAKE2B 25219b923be0f2368061fcdc88545f99150b6a9568e423280ffb0404eeaef2134549d627af19b72bb842b657c6023238d821caba7713d1deb78722631ce73629 SHA512 bbf0b5fd986f0cd5a90b8b30498b5d57c1afd0fbf78adf7731b04498cd3180d06637f7044e67c7eb6aaf36b5a2ec2b7cee64baa1ad2730c340304699cb048936
 DIST yt-dlp-2025.10.22.tar.gz 6025669 BLAKE2B 48b476c52fe44f8d26c7779f75750d93d42ce05bdad2d20a9a8bc1a57b08a375ddc3f26ee56d28b9fa14b94de33f124cce312f2711f3b3424902035e65d6628d SHA512 3540af6c8594014d7b7b4594ff427b23e614a75baf23b3f55292f1f65bb42c32000007f63df9202d91aa6254d5db01db64d8010540637e57af5d44ffef92b8b1
-DIST yt-dlp-2025.10.30_pre.tar.xz 4801348 BLAKE2B da1d109c107a37f7c133fc7c793d00c383e37f14128f431376fe2a725a435411cccd0531e9aff043a781ec214cfca2c7b844b44e3fd37cb47d126d84c0e4dab0 SHA512 1a08c6e4b2736f2e102265ccf450304b0df57906d47de6bd4462d4de89851c87cfaf8dc8f1b403ed40939d537fb45d039c667d4a121070b6c6696ae6daf4d38b
+DIST yt-dlp-2025.11.02_pre.tar.xz 4809064 BLAKE2B bbd489bf3017bb813919abd520db6a0216765ddd9fffca0e618214aceeb6949077723f34ae86e2cdd46875e24901e7015ba9779241a7e468ec234f8a97660084 SHA512 a7bc72ddfc6bdf250925ff51377495f11bdce61ed49cab930166085f27b8234ab685e696af82c77054e7449a4de7626ef07d38e61aad714b1515560a298dd69a
diff --git a/net-misc/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-2025.10.30_pre.ebuild b/net-misc/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-2025.11.02_pre.ebuild
similarity index 94%
rename from net-misc/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-2025.10.30_pre.ebuild
rename to net-misc/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-2025.11.02_pre.ebuild
index f81ec026bf9a4..a94615d74528e 100644
--- a/net-misc/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-2025.10.30_pre.ebuild
+++ b/net-misc/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-2025.11.02_pre.ebuild
@@ -15,11 +15,7 @@ else
 	S=${WORKDIR}/${PN}
 	# note that yt-dlp bumps are typically done straight-to-stable (unless some
 	# major/breaking changes) given website changes breaks it on a whim
-	# (unkeyworded for testing PR14517 with external n/sig solver)
-	# TODO for release version:
-	# - revert SRC_URI
-	# - drop warning from metadata.xml's USE=deno description
-	# - replace workaround `rm -rf` by `rm -r` in src_install
+	# (unkeyworded pre-snapshot including external n/sig solver, aka w/ deno)
 	#KEYWORDS="amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ppc ppc64 ~riscv x86 ~arm64-macos ~x64-macos"
 fi