diff --git a/.github/workflows/pr-test-npu.yml b/.github/workflows/pr-test-npu.yml
index b28be34d71b8..d47a3961531f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pr-test-npu.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pr-test-npu.yml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ jobs:
     if: needs.check-changes.outputs.main_package == 'true'
     runs-on: linux-arm64-npu-1
     container:
-      image: swr.cn-southwest-2.myhuaweicloud.com/base_image/ascend-ci/cann:8.2.rc1-910b-ubuntu22.04-py3.11
+      image: swr.cn-southwest-2.myhuaweicloud.com/base_image/ascend-ci/cann:8.3.rc1-910b-ubuntu22.04-py3.11
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         part: [0, 1, 2]
     container:
-      image: swr.cn-southwest-2.myhuaweicloud.com/base_image/ascend-ci/cann:8.2.rc1-910b-ubuntu22.04-py3.11
+      image: swr.cn-southwest-2.myhuaweicloud.com/base_image/ascend-ci/cann:8.3.rc1-910b-ubuntu22.04-py3.11
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ jobs:
     if: needs.check-changes.outputs.main_package == 'true'
     runs-on: linux-arm64-npu-4
     container:
-      image: swr.cn-southwest-2.myhuaweicloud.com/base_image/ascend-ci/cann:8.2.rc1-910b-ubuntu22.04-py3.11
+      image: swr.cn-southwest-2.myhuaweicloud.com/base_image/ascend-ci/cann:8.3.rc1-910b-ubuntu22.04-py3.11
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         part: [0, 1]
     container:
-      image: swr.cn-southwest-2.myhuaweicloud.com/base_image/ascend-ci/cann:8.2.rc1-a3-ubuntu22.04-py3.11
+      image: swr.cn-southwest-2.myhuaweicloud.com/base_image/ascend-ci/cann:8.3.rc1-a3-ubuntu22.04-py3.11
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-docker-npu-nightly.yml b/.github/workflows/release-docker-npu-nightly.yml
index 765b45336248..1ede19a35589 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-docker-npu-nightly.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-docker-npu-nightly.yml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04-arm
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        cann_version: ["8.2.rc1"]
+        cann_version: ["8.3.rc1"]
         device_type: ["910b", "a3"]
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repository
@@ -73,6 +73,6 @@ jobs:
           push: ${{ github.repository == 'sgl-project/sglang' && github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
           provenance: false
           build-args: |
-            SGLANG_KERNEL_NPU_TAG=20251110
+            SGLANG_KERNEL_NPU_TAG=20251120
             CANN_VERSION=${{ matrix.cann_version }}
             DEVICE_TYPE=${{ matrix.device_type }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-docker-npu.yml b/.github/workflows/release-docker-npu.yml
index 9afe3dfd6dc5..2b2506a28c63 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-docker-npu.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-docker-npu.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04-arm
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        cann_version: ["8.2.rc1"]
+        cann_version: ["8.3.rc1"]
         device_type: ["910b", "a3"]
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repository
@@ -70,6 +70,6 @@ jobs:
           push: ${{ github.repository == 'sgl-project/sglang' && github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
           provenance: false
           build-args: |
-            SGLANG_KERNEL_NPU_TAG=20251110
+            SGLANG_KERNEL_NPU_TAG=20251120
             CANN_VERSION=${{ matrix.cann_version }}
             DEVICE_TYPE=${{ matrix.device_type }}
diff --git a/docker/npu.Dockerfile b/docker/npu.Dockerfile
index 48d0f354e496..21a8f7edffb7 100644
--- a/docker/npu.Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/npu.Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-ARG CANN_VERSION=8.2.rc1
+ARG CANN_VERSION=8.3.rc1
 ARG DEVICE_TYPE=a3
 ARG OS=ubuntu22.04
 ARG PYTHON_VERSION=py3.11
@@ -6,20 +6,22 @@ ARG PYTHON_VERSION=py3.11
 FROM quay.io/ascend/cann:$CANN_VERSION-$DEVICE_TYPE-$OS-$PYTHON_VERSION
 
 # Update pip & apt sources
-ARG DEVICE_TYPE
 ARG PIP_INDEX_URL="https://pypi.org/simple/"
 ARG APTMIRROR=""
-ARG MEMFABRIC_URL=https://sglang-ascend.obs.cn-east-3.myhuaweicloud.com/sglang/mf_adapter-1.0.0-cp311-cp311-linux_aarch64.whl
-ARG PYTORCH_VERSION=2.6.0
-ARG TORCHVISION_VERSION=0.21.0
-ARG PTA_URL="https://sglang-ascend.obs.cn-east-3.myhuaweicloud.com/ops/torch_npu-2.6.0.post2%2Bgit95d6260-cp311-cp311-linux_aarch64.whl"
-ARG VLLM_TAG=v0.8.5
+ARG PYTORCH_VERSION="2.8.0"
+ARG TORCHVISION_VERSION="0.23.0"
+ARG PTA_VERSION="v7.2.0-pytorch${PYTORCH_VERSION}"
+ARG PTA_NAME="torch_npu-${PYTORCH_VERSION}-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_28_aarch64.whl"
+ARG PTA_URL="https://gitcode.com/Ascend/pytorch/releases/download/${PTA_VERSION}/${PTA_NAME}"
 ARG TRITON_ASCEND_URL="https://sglang-ascend.obs.cn-east-3.myhuaweicloud.com/sglang/triton_ascend-3.2.0%2Bgitb0ea0850-cp311-cp311-linux_aarch64.whl"
 ARG BISHENG_URL="https://sglang-ascend.obs.cn-east-3.myhuaweicloud.com/sglang/Ascend-BiSheng-toolkit_aarch64.run"
 ARG SGLANG_TAG=main
 ARG ASCEND_CANN_PATH=/usr/local/Ascend/ascend-toolkit
 ARG SGLANG_KERNEL_NPU_TAG=main
 
+ARG PIP_INSTALL="python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir"
+ARG DEVICE_TYPE
+
 WORKDIR /workspace
 
 # Define environments
@@ -54,45 +56,44 @@ ENV LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 ENV LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 ENV LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
 
-# Install dependencies
-# TODO: install from pypi released memfabric
-RUN pip install $MEMFABRIC_URL --no-cache-dir
 
-# Install vLLM
-RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm.git --branch $VLLM_TAG && \
-    (cd vllm && VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE="empty" pip install -v . --no-cache-dir) && rm -rf vllm
+### Install MemFabric
+RUN ${PIP_INSTALL} mf-adapter==1.0.0
+### Install SGLang Model Gateway
+RUN ${PIP_INSTALL} sglang-router
+
+
+### Install PyTorch and PTA
+RUN (${PIP_INSTALL} torch==${PYTORCH_VERSION} torchvision==${TORCHVISION_VERSION} --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu) && \
+    (wget -O "${PTA_NAME}" "${PTA_URL}" && ${PIP_INSTALL} "./${PTA_NAME}" && rm "./${PTA_NAME}")
+
 
 # TODO: install from pypi released triton-ascend
-RUN pip install torch==$PYTORCH_VERSION torchvision==$TORCHVISION_VERSION --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu --no-cache-dir \
-    && wget ${PTA_URL} && pip install "./torch_npu-2.6.0.post2+git95d6260-cp311-cp311-linux_aarch64.whl" --no-cache-dir \
-    && python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir attrs==24.2.0 numpy==1.26.4 scipy==1.13.1 decorator==5.1.1 psutil==6.0.0 pytest==8.3.2 pytest-xdist==3.6.1 pyyaml pybind11 \
-    && pip install ${TRITON_ASCEND_URL} --no-cache-dir
+RUN ${PIP_INSTALL} attrs==24.2.0 numpy==1.26.4 scipy==1.13.1 decorator==5.1.1 psutil==6.0.0 pytest==8.3.2 pytest-xdist==3.6.1 pyyaml pybind11 && \
+    ${PIP_INSTALL} ${TRITON_ASCEND_URL}
 
 # Install SGLang
 RUN git clone https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang --branch $SGLANG_TAG && \
-    (cd sglang/python && rm -rf pyproject.toml && mv pyproject_other.toml pyproject.toml && pip install -v .[srt_npu] --no-cache-dir) && \
+    (cd sglang/python && rm -rf pyproject.toml && mv pyproject_other.toml pyproject.toml && ${PIP_INSTALL} -v .[srt_npu]) && \
     rm -rf sglang
 
-# Install SGLang Model Gateway
-RUN pip install sglang-router --no-cache-dir
-
 # Install Deep-ep
 # pin wheel to 0.45.1 ref: https://github.com/pypa/wheel/issues/662
-RUN pip install wheel==0.45.1 && git clone --branch $SGLANG_KERNEL_NPU_TAG https://github.com/sgl-project/sgl-kernel-npu.git \
+RUN ${PIP_INSTALL} wheel==0.45.1 && git clone --branch $SGLANG_KERNEL_NPU_TAG https://github.com/sgl-project/sgl-kernel-npu.git \
     && export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${ASCEND_CANN_PATH}/latest/runtime/lib64/stub:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH && \
     source ${ASCEND_CANN_PATH}/set_env.sh && \
     cd sgl-kernel-npu && \
     bash build.sh \
-    && pip install output/deep_ep*.whl output/sgl_kernel_npu*.whl --no-cache-dir \
+    && ${PIP_INSTALL} output/deep_ep*.whl output/sgl_kernel_npu*.whl \
     && cd .. && rm -rf sgl-kernel-npu \
-    && cd "$(pip show deep-ep | awk '/^Location:/ {print $2}')" && ln -s deep_ep/deep_ep_cpp*.so
+    && cd "$(python3 -m pip show deep-ep | awk '/^Location:/ {print $2}')" && ln -s deep_ep/deep_ep_cpp*.so
 
 # Install CustomOps
 RUN wget https://sglang-ascend.obs.cn-east-3.myhuaweicloud.com/ops/CANN-custom_ops-8.2.0.0-$DEVICE_TYPE-linux.aarch64.run && \
     chmod a+x ./CANN-custom_ops-8.2.0.0-$DEVICE_TYPE-linux.aarch64.run && \
     ./CANN-custom_ops-8.2.0.0-$DEVICE_TYPE-linux.aarch64.run --quiet --install-path=/usr/local/Ascend/ascend-toolkit/latest/opp && \
     wget https://sglang-ascend.obs.cn-east-3.myhuaweicloud.com/ops/custom_ops-1.0.$DEVICE_TYPE-cp311-cp311-linux_aarch64.whl && \
-    pip install ./custom_ops-1.0.$DEVICE_TYPE-cp311-cp311-linux_aarch64.whl
+    ${PIP_INSTALL} ./custom_ops-1.0.$DEVICE_TYPE-cp311-cp311-linux_aarch64.whl
 
 # Install Bisheng
 RUN wget ${BISHENG_URL} && chmod a+x Ascend-BiSheng-toolkit_aarch64.run && ./Ascend-BiSheng-toolkit_aarch64.run --install && rm Ascend-BiSheng-toolkit_aarch64.run
diff --git a/docs/platforms/ascend_npu.md b/docs/platforms/ascend_npu.md
index 9525af5af205..6a3f9ad27e67 100644
--- a/docs/platforms/ascend_npu.md
+++ b/docs/platforms/ascend_npu.md
@@ -48,41 +48,23 @@ conda activate sglang_npu
 
 #### MemFabric Adaptor
 
-_TODO: MemFabric is still a working project yet open sourced til August/September, 2025. We will release it as prebuilt wheel package for now._
-
-_Notice: Prebuilt wheel package is based on `aarch64`, please leave an issue [here at sglang](https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/issues) to let us know the requests for `amd64` build._
+_TODO: MemFabric is still a working project yet open sourced til end of year 2025. We will release it as prebuilt wheel package for now._
 
 MemFabric Adaptor is a drop-in replacement of Mooncake Transfer Engine that enables KV cache transfer on Ascend NPU clusters.
 
 ```shell
-MF_WHL_NAME="mf_adapter-1.0.0-cp311-cp311-linux_aarch64.whl"
-MEMFABRIC_URL="https://sglang-ascend.obs.cn-east-3.myhuaweicloud.com/sglang/${MF_WHL_NAME}"
-wget -O "${MF_WHL_NAME}" "${MEMFABRIC_URL}" && pip install "./${MF_WHL_NAME}"
+pip install mf-adapter==1.0.0
 ```
 
 #### Pytorch and Pytorch Framework Adaptor on Ascend
 
-Only `torch==2.6.0` is supported currently due to NPUgraph and Triton-on-Ascend's limitation, however a more generalized version will be release by the end of September, 2025.
-
 ```shell
-PYTORCH_VERSION=2.6.0
-TORCHVISION_VERSION=0.21.0
+PYTORCH_VERSION="2.8.0"
+TORCHVISION_VERSION="0.23.0"
 pip install torch==$PYTORCH_VERSION torchvision==$TORCHVISION_VERSION --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 
-PTA_VERSION="v7.1.0.1-pytorch2.6.0"
-PTA_NAME="torch_npu-2.6.0.post1-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_28_aarch64.whl"
-PTA_URL="https://gitee.com/ascend/pytorch/releases/download/${PTA_VERSION}/${PTA_WHL_NAME}"
-wget -O "${PTA_NAME}" "${PTA_URL}" && pip install "./${PTA_NAME}"
-```
-
-#### vLLM
-
-vLLM is still a major prerequisite on Ascend NPU. Because of `torch==2.6.0` limitation, only vLLM v0.8.5 is supported.
-
-```shell
-VLLM_TAG=v0.8.5
-git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm.git --branch $VLLM_TAG
-(cd vllm && VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE="empty" pip install -v -e .)
+PTA_VERSION="2.8.0"
+pip install torch-npu==$PTA_VERSION
 ```
 
 #### Triton on Ascend
@@ -103,6 +85,7 @@ git clone -b v0.5.5.post3 https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang.git
 cd sglang
 
 pip install --upgrade pip
+rm -vf python/pyproject.toml && mv python/pyproject_other.toml python/pyproject.toml
 pip install -e python[srt_npu]
 ```
 
diff --git a/python/pyproject_other.toml b/python/pyproject_other.toml
index 3f0b32341ad9..c191a752b41a 100755
--- a/python/pyproject_other.toml
+++ b/python/pyproject_other.toml
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ runtime_common = [
   "datasets",
   "einops",
   "fastapi",
+  "gguf",
   "hf_transfer",
   "huggingface_hub",
   "interegular",
diff --git a/python/sglang/check_env.py b/python/sglang/check_env.py
index e737da0dc4e2..18fa94afadb2 100644
--- a/python/sglang/check_env.py
+++ b/python/sglang/check_env.py
@@ -311,9 +311,15 @@ def get_topology(self):
 class NPUEnv(BaseEnv):
     """Environment checker for Ascend NPU"""
 
+    EXTRA_PACKAGE_LIST = [
+        "torch_npu",
+        "sgl-kernel-npu",
+        "deep_ep",
+    ]
+
     def __init__(self):
         super().__init__()
-        self.package_list = ["torch_npu", "sgl-kernel-npu"] + self.package_list
+        self.package_list.extend(NPUEnv.EXTRA_PACKAGE_LIST)
 
     def get_info(self):
         cuda_info = {"NPU available": torch.npu.is_available()}
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/layers/attention/ascend_backend.py b/python/sglang/srt/layers/attention/ascend_backend.py
index 498cff07b185..54668423e4af 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/layers/attention/ascend_backend.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/layers/attention/ascend_backend.py
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ def forward_extend(
                             num_key_value_heads=layer.tp_k_head_num,
                             input_layout="BSND",  # todo, TND not supports q_heads!=k_heads
                             atten_mask=self.fia_mask.unsqueeze(0),
-                            sparse_mode=3,
+                            sparse_mode=3 if q_len != 1 else 0,
                             scale=layer.scaling,
                             next_tokens=0,
                         )[0]
diff --git a/python/sglang/test/test_utils.py b/python/sglang/test/test_utils.py
index 12e6c0fad5e5..98b2e8a4daba 100644
--- a/python/sglang/test/test_utils.py
+++ b/python/sglang/test/test_utils.py
@@ -1245,8 +1245,8 @@ def run_bench_offline_throughput(model, other_args):
 
     try:
         stdout, stderr = process.communicate()
-        output = stdout.decode()
-        error = stderr.decode()
+        output = stdout.decode(errors="backslashreplace")
+        error = stderr.decode(errors="backslashreplace")
         print(f"Output: {output}", flush=True)
         print(f"Error: {error}", flush=True)
 
diff --git a/scripts/ci/npu_ci_install_dependency.sh b/scripts/ci/npu_ci_install_dependency.sh
index 145085f6cfd2..ce092ed5b35e 100755
--- a/scripts/ci/npu_ci_install_dependency.sh
+++ b/scripts/ci/npu_ci_install_dependency.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -euo pipefail
 
-PIP_INSTALL="pip install --no-cache-dir"
+PIP_INSTALL="python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir"
 DEVICE_TYPE=$1
 
 
@@ -19,29 +19,23 @@ apt update -y && apt install -y \
     ccache \
     ca-certificates
 update-ca-certificates
-python3 -m ${PIP_INSTALL} --upgrade pip
+${PIP_INSTALL} --upgrade pip
+# Pin wheel to 0.45.1, REF: https://github.com/pypa/wheel/issues/662
+${PIP_INSTALL} wheel==0.45.1
 
 
-### Download MemFabricV2
-MF_WHL_NAME="mf_adapter-1.0.0-cp311-cp311-linux_aarch64.whl"
-MEMFABRIC_URL="https://sglang-ascend.obs.cn-east-3.myhuaweicloud.com/sglang/${MF_WHL_NAME}"
-wget -O "${MF_WHL_NAME}" "${MEMFABRIC_URL}" && ${PIP_INSTALL} "./${MF_WHL_NAME}"
-
-
-### Install vLLM
-VLLM_TAG=v0.8.5
-git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm.git --branch $VLLM_TAG
-(cd vllm && VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE="empty" ${PIP_INSTALL} -v -e .)
+### Install MemFabric
+${PIP_INSTALL} mf-adapter==1.0.0
 
 
 ### Install PyTorch and PTA
-PYTORCH_VERSION=2.6.0
-TORCHVISION_VERSION=0.21.0
-${PIP_INSTALL} torch==$PYTORCH_VERSION torchvision==$TORCHVISION_VERSION --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
+PYTORCH_VERSION="2.8.0"
+TORCHVISION_VERSION="0.23.0"
+${PIP_INSTALL} torch==${PYTORCH_VERSION} torchvision==${TORCHVISION_VERSION} --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 
-PTA_VERSION="v7.1.0.1-pytorch2.6.0"
-PTA_NAME="torch_npu-2.6.0.post2+git95d6260-cp311-cp311-linux_aarch64.whl"
-PTA_URL="https://sglang-ascend.obs.cn-east-3.myhuaweicloud.com/ops/torch_npu-2.6.0.post2%2Bgit95d6260-cp311-cp311-linux_aarch64.whl"
+PTA_VERSION="v7.2.0-pytorch${PYTORCH_VERSION}"
+PTA_NAME="torch_npu-${PYTORCH_VERSION}-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_28_aarch64.whl"
+PTA_URL="https://gitcode.com/Ascend/pytorch/releases/download/${PTA_VERSION}/${PTA_NAME}"
 wget -O "${PTA_NAME}" "${PTA_URL}" && ${PIP_INSTALL} "./${PTA_NAME}"
 
 
@@ -59,11 +53,9 @@ wget -O "${BISHENG_NAME}" "${BISHENG_URL}" && chmod a+x "${BISHENG_NAME}" && "./
 
 
 ### Install sgl-kernel-npu
-SGL_KERNEL_NPU_TAG="20251110"
+SGL_KERNEL_NPU_TAG="20251120"
 git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sgl-project/sgl-kernel-npu.git --branch ${SGL_KERNEL_NPU_TAG}
-# pin wheel to 0.45.1 ref: https://github.com/pypa/wheel/issues/662
-pip install wheel==0.45.1
-(cd sgl-kernel-npu && bash ./build.sh && pip install output/deep_ep*.whl output/sgl_kernel_npu*.whl && cd "$(pip show deep-ep | grep -E '^Location:' | awk '{print $2}')" && ln -s deep_ep/deep_ep_cpp*.so)
+(cd sgl-kernel-npu && bash ./build.sh && ${PIP_INSTALL} output/deep_ep*.whl output/sgl_kernel_npu*.whl && cd "$(python3 -m pip show deep-ep | grep -E '^Location:' | awk '{print $2}')" && ln -s deep_ep/deep_ep_cpp*.so)
 
 
 ### Install CustomOps (TODO: to be removed once merged into sgl-kernel-npu)