diff --git a/ports/vowpal-wabbit/cmake_remove_bin_targets.patch b/ports/vowpal-wabbit/cmake_remove_bin_targets.patch
index fb3fd2741a..4613009313 100644
--- a/ports/vowpal-wabbit/cmake_remove_bin_targets.patch
+++ b/ports/vowpal-wabbit/cmake_remove_bin_targets.patch
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 diff --git a/vowpalwabbit/CMakeLists.txt b/vowpalwabbit/CMakeLists.txt
-index 56cb361ec..ec23fb654 100644
+index 39893dae2..cb247c808 100644
 --- a/vowpalwabbit/CMakeLists.txt
 +++ b/vowpalwabbit/CMakeLists.txt
 @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 -add_subdirectory(active_interactor)
-+# add_subdirectory(active_interactor)
++#add_subdirectory(active_interactor)
  add_subdirectory(allreduce)
  if(VW_BUILD_VW_C_WRAPPER)
    add_subdirectory(c_wrapper)
  endif()
 -add_subdirectory(cli)
-+# add_subdirectory(cli)
++#add_subdirectory(cli)
  add_subdirectory(common)
  add_subdirectory(config)
  add_subdirectory(core)
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ index 56cb361ec..ec23fb654 100644
  add_subdirectory(model_merger)
  add_subdirectory(slim)
 -add_subdirectory(spanning_tree_bin)
-+# add_subdirectory(spanning_tree_bin)
++#add_subdirectory(spanning_tree_bin)
  add_subdirectory(spanning_tree)
- if(BUILD_FLATBUFFERS)
-   add_subdirectory(fb_parser)
+ if(CMAKE_PROJECT_NAME STREQUAL PROJECT_NAME AND BUILD_TESTING)
+   add_subdirectory(test_common)
diff --git a/ports/vowpal-wabbit/portfile.cmake b/ports/vowpal-wabbit/portfile.cmake
index f41dda8ec3..1294b69d1e 100644
--- a/ports/vowpal-wabbit/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/vowpal-wabbit/portfile.cmake
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ vcpkg_check_linkage(ONLY_STATIC_LIBRARY)
 vcpkg_from_github(
     OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
     REPO VowpalWabbit/vowpal_wabbit
-    REF 9496a6dd5610910a495ca004a93c8ab6913293e4
-    SHA512 df4da3f3ab763dbd113b0ace0552d676ec905a6ff0d942d9fc1828e36fb8440d1b75a61c1ea6de09879e0f52547366936d02a77dba2bac89503a075da12414db
+    REF 16e9114f41343eed0a5f3f9881b171ce4ea6774a
+    SHA512 a9244c9791d672f57e06cafc0de753c307976f35f975b6f17ac0e5f8f773f4236674232afada015cd47c4ee2e4d0f550680251772693d4abf2b525dd9b3617f5
     HEAD_REF master
     PATCHES cmake_remove_bin_targets.patch
 )
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ vcpkg_cmake_configure(
         -DSPDLOG_SYS_DEP=ON
         -DVW_BOOST_MATH_SYS_DEP=ON
         -DVW_ZLIB_SYS_DEP=ON
+        -DVW_EIGEN_SYS_DEP=ON
         -DVW_BUILD_VW_C_WRAPPER=OFF
         -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF
 )
diff --git a/ports/vowpal-wabbit/vcpkg.json b/ports/vowpal-wabbit/vcpkg.json
index 65c1ec7e44..4f0dfad782 100644
--- a/ports/vowpal-wabbit/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/vowpal-wabbit/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 {
   "name": "vowpal-wabbit",
-  "version": "9.5.0",
-  "port-version": 1,
+  "version": "9.6.0",
   "description": "Reduction based online learning framework with a focus on contextual bandits and reinforcement learning.",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/vowpalwabbit/vowpal_wabbit",
   "license": "BSD-3-Clause",
   "supports": "!x86 & !uwp & !(windows & arm)",
   "dependencies": [
     "boost-math",
+    "eigen3",
     "flatbuffers",
     "fmt",
     "rapidjson",
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index f0f933c6ab..96ca51fb04 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -7821,8 +7821,8 @@
       "port-version": 0
     },
     "vowpal-wabbit": {
-      "baseline": "9.5.0",
-      "port-version": 1
+      "baseline": "9.6.0",
+      "port-version": 0
     },
     "vs-yasm": {
       "baseline": "0.5.0",
diff --git a/versions/v-/vowpal-wabbit.json b/versions/v-/vowpal-wabbit.json
index 4a769566d3..1e7ce73c11 100644
--- a/versions/v-/vowpal-wabbit.json
+++ b/versions/v-/vowpal-wabbit.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "93cd564360ea4185d144f884ffa817fd97f19458",
+      "version": "9.6.0",
+      "port-version": 0
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "e78d44b4949b1d3d2e11f177f8638952c61d711e",
       "version": "9.5.0",