diff --git a/requirements/common.txt b/requirements/common.txt
index 132979d8e6..acfc986c75 100644
--- a/requirements/common.txt
+++ b/requirements/common.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tqdm
 blake3
 py-cpuinfo
 transformers >= 5.10.4
-huggingface_hub >= 1.28.0
+huggingface_hub >= 1.31.0  # Required for the `huggingface_hub.utils.httpx` re-export
 tokenizers >= 0.21.1  # Required for fast incremental detokenization.
 safetensors >= 0.6.2  # MXFP4/MXFP6 dtype support (F8_E8M0, F4) added in 0.6.0: https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/611
 protobuf >= 5.29.6, !=6.30.*, !=6.31.*, !=6.32.*, !=6.33.0.*, !=6.33.1.*, !=6.33.2.*, !=6.33.3.*, !=6.33.4.* # Required by LlamaTokenizer, gRPC. CVE-2026-0994
diff --git a/requirements/test/cpu.txt b/requirements/test/cpu.txt
index 81eb1b15cf..2b1b8d372d 100644
--- a/requirements/test/cpu.txt
+++ b/requirements/test/cpu.txt
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ httpx==0.27.2
     #   schemathesis
 httpx2==2.12.0
     # via mcp
-huggingface-hub==1.28.0
+huggingface-hub==1.31.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/test/../common.txt
     #   accelerate
diff --git a/requirements/test/cuda.txt b/requirements/test/cuda.txt
index aee0e7003d..2910f01e9f 100644
--- a/requirements/test/cuda.txt
+++ b/requirements/test/cuda.txt
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ httpx==0.27.2
     #   schemathesis
 httpx2==2.12.0
     # via mcp
-huggingface-hub==1.28.0
+huggingface-hub==1.31.0
     # via
     #   -c requirements/common.txt
     #   -r requirements/test/../common.txt
diff --git a/requirements/test/rocm.txt b/requirements/test/rocm.txt
index aa0835cd1b..ed47efded1 100644
--- a/requirements/test/rocm.txt
+++ b/requirements/test/rocm.txt
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ httpx==0.27.2
     #   schemathesis
 httpx2==2.12.0
     # via mcp
-huggingface-hub==1.28.0
+huggingface-hub==1.31.0
     # via
     #   -c requirements/common.txt
     #   -r requirements/test/../common.txt
diff --git a/requirements/test/xpu.txt b/requirements/test/xpu.txt
index 99e5699993..76453f50f2 100644
--- a/requirements/test/xpu.txt
+++ b/requirements/test/xpu.txt
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ httpx2==2.10.0
     # via
     #   mcp
     #   openai
-huggingface-hub==1.28.0
+huggingface-hub==1.31.0
     # via
     #   -c requirements/common.txt
     #   -r requirements/test/../common.txt
diff --git a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/mooncake/mooncake_connector.py b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/mooncake/mooncake_connector.py
index 0a899b7b62..8fa9a8836a 100644
--- a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/mooncake/mooncake_connector.py
+++ b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/mooncake/mooncake_connector.py
@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ from dataclasses import dataclass
 from enum import IntEnum
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
 
-import httpx
 import msgspec
 import numpy as np
 import torch
 import zmq
 import zmq.asyncio
+from huggingface_hub.utils import httpx
 
 from vllm import envs
 from vllm.config import VllmConfig
diff --git a/vllm/logger.py b/vllm/logger.py
index 2d053f608b..ec67e504bb 100644
--- a/vllm/logger.py
+++ b/vllm/logger.py
@@ -258,8 +258,10 @@ _configure_vllm_root_logger()
 
 # Transformers uses httpx to access the Hugging Face Hub. httpx is quite verbose,
 # so we set its logging level to WARNING when vLLM's logging level is INFO.
+# httpx2 is the successor huggingface_hub switches to in its 2.x releases.
 if envs.VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL == "INFO":
     logging.getLogger("httpx").setLevel(logging.WARNING)
+    logging.getLogger("httpx2").setLevel(logging.WARNING)
 
 logger = init_logger(__name__)