diff --git a/src/process/exec-spawn.ts b/src/process/exec-spawn.ts
index 8b347e684c6e..3a02025a586d 100644
--- a/src/process/exec-spawn.ts
+++ b/src/process/exec-spawn.ts
@@ -69,14 +69,6 @@ export function spawnCommandWithInvocation<
   invocation: ReturnType<typeof resolveSafeChildProcessInvocation>;
 } {
   const { baseEnv, env, windowsVerbatimArguments, ...execaOptions } = options;
-  // Bun workaround (oven-sh/bun#36049): execa forwards its whole options object to
-  // child_process.spawn. Node ignores the extra `encoding` key there, but Bun's
-  // spawn feeds it into its stream constructor and throws ERR_UNKNOWN_ENCODING for
-  // execa's "buffer". Clearing it under Bun means buffered results arrive as utf8
-  // strings instead of Buffers; callers already normalize via Buffer.from. Binary-
-  // exact output paths are unverified under Bun. Remove once the Bun issue is fixed.
-  const dropBufferEncodingForBun =
-    Boolean(process.versions.bun) && execaOptions.encoding === "buffer";
   const commandEnv = resolveCommandEnv({ argv, baseEnv, env });
   const invocation = resolveSafeChildProcessInvocation({
     argv,
@@ -86,7 +78,6 @@ export function spawnCommandWithInvocation<
   });
   const child = execa(invocation.command, invocation.args, {
     ...execaOptions,
-    ...(dropBufferEncodingForBun ? { encoding: undefined } : {}),
     env: commandEnv,
     extendEnv: false,
     shell: false,