diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e93fac674..144c736ed 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ serde_json = "1"
 # Related to tooling/build setup.
 # * regex: not used for unicode parsing -> features unicode-bool + unicode-gencat are enabled instead of unicode-perl.
 #          'unicode-gencat' needed for \d, see https://docs.rs/regex/latest/regex/#unicode-features.
-bindgen = { version = "0.71", default-features = false, features = ["runtime"] }
+bindgen = { version = "0.72.1", default-features = false, features = ["runtime"] }
 libc = "0.2.172"
 regex = { version = "1.11", default-features = false, features = ["std", "unicode-bool", "unicode-gencat"] }
 which = "7"
diff --git a/godot-bindings/src/header_gen.rs b/godot-bindings/src/header_gen.rs
index c6fc2d9a6..d999d383e 100644
--- a/godot-bindings/src/header_gen.rs
+++ b/godot-bindings/src/header_gen.rs
@@ -26,7 +26,13 @@ pub(crate) fn generate_rust_binding(in_h_path: &Path, out_rs_path: &Path) {
     let builder = bindgen::Builder::default()
         .header(c_header_path)
         .parse_callbacks(Box::new(cargo_cfg))
-        .prepend_enum_name(false);
+        .prepend_enum_name(false)
+        // Bindgen can generate wrong size checks for types defined as `__attribute__((aligned(__alignof__(struct {...}))))`,
+        // which is how clang defines max_align_t: https://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/____stddef__max__align__t_8h_source.html.
+        // Size checks seems to be fine on all the targets but `wasm32-unknown-emscripten`, disallowing web builds.
+        // We don't use `max_align_t` anywhere, so blacklisting it until upstream fixes the problem seems to be the most sane solution.
+        // See: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/issues/3295.
+        .blocklist_type("max_align_t");
 
     std::fs::create_dir_all(
         out_rs_path