diff --git a/media-video/wireplumber/Manifest b/media-video/wireplumber/Manifest
index 51ca28e208bc4..a211509b9491b 100644
--- a/media-video/wireplumber/Manifest
+++ b/media-video/wireplumber/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST wireplumber-0.5.10.tar.bz2 423061 BLAKE2B ec39d4687e5e16a46178cbbe53dcf8f21aa697a6db9304f26d21cedda19131fd1e097c29255819578966bc5026110f44599efc94aa6a069ded8d5eb827fa3fed SHA512 53e1518ccc9f607dcbef9cfdc459804ac077ca11b79f215a2466332f5c67e9eace1b9bc05f1e7320e34a915c99a1b3ffdbb8963fadbdd1e3af85b3d0af09a32d
+DIST wireplumber-0.5.11.tar.bz2 436646 BLAKE2B 5044ad0d0b0cfc948ba28e61f21dfe390fa3a29ccf121959be81e48623b65bc6b9c25c872197fd5d49391bd4bb8b73ee0fd101116ae7eb5b1741a5348bc3b830 SHA512 782b266a4be9663c73f892f01a4de5b154ddfc1dfcc51a17e0783a30660168991905c37aa604609a107432d05da7199d1ed770d806864c588fc116762bb06c6e
 DIST wireplumber-0.5.8.tar.bz2 419851 BLAKE2B 2d811534771d57206bcac467b2241e0b6f67259a7399de2d28f758768317d652aa1c9cd2cc5327e3528928e3aa59cef2c94873688d9ecc935aaecb4078a81db9 SHA512 bb3a4a3bc9fd0ece7fccb4efa32d01b02d68738b7766dd4b3310471c4bb98cc499b324ef0643079665d175e3267c1b4e53deef6ebdd9600e49a9560adb22ad88
diff --git a/media-video/wireplumber/wireplumber-0.5.11.ebuild b/media-video/wireplumber/wireplumber-0.5.11.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..25ddc1c5fa567
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media-video/wireplumber/wireplumber-0.5.11.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+# 1. Please regularly check (even at the point of bumping) Fedora's packaging
+# for needed backports at https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/wireplumber/tree/rawhide
+#
+# 2. Keep an eye on git master (for both PipeWire and WirePlumber) as things
+# continue to move quickly. It's not uncommon for fixes to be made shortly
+# after releases.
+
+LUA_COMPAT=( lua5-{3,4} )
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..14} )
+
+inherit lua-single meson python-any-r1 systemd
+
+DESCRIPTION="Replacement for pipewire-media-session"
+HOMEPAGE="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/wireplumber"
+
+if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]; then
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/${PN}.git"
+	EGIT_BRANCH="master"
+	inherit git-r3
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/${PN}/-/archive/${PV}/${P}.tar.bz2"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~loong ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc ~x86"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0/0.5"
+IUSE="elogind system-service systemd test"
+
+REQUIRED_USE="
+	${LUA_REQUIRED_USE}
+	?? ( elogind systemd )
+	system-service? ( systemd )
+"
+
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+# introspection? ( dev-libs/gobject-introspection ) is valid but likely only used for doc building
+BDEPEND="
+	${PYTHON_DEPS}
+	dev-libs/glib
+	dev-util/gdbus-codegen
+	dev-util/glib-utils
+	sys-devel/gettext
+	test? ( sys-apps/dbus )
+"
+DEPEND="
+	${LUA_DEPS}
+	>=dev-libs/glib-2.68
+	>=media-video/pipewire-1.0.5-r1:=
+	virtual/libintl
+	elogind? ( sys-auth/elogind )
+	systemd? ( sys-apps/systemd )
+"
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+	system-service? (
+		acct-user/pipewire
+		acct-group/pipewire
+	)
+"
+
+DOCS=( {NEWS,README}.rst )
+
+PATCHES=(
+	# Defer enabling sound server parts to media-video/pipewire
+	# TODO: Soon, we should be able to migrate to just a dropin at
+	# /usr/share. See https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/wireplumber/-/issues/652#note_2399735.
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-0.5.6-config-disable-sound-server-parts.patch
+)
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	lua-single_pkg_setup
+	python-any-r1_pkg_setup
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	local emesonargs=(
+		-Ddaemon=true
+		-Dtools=true
+		-Dmodules=true
+		# Ebuild not wired up yet (Sphinx, Doxygen?)
+		-Ddoc=disabled
+		# Only used for Sphinx doc generation
+		-Dintrospection=disabled
+		-Dsystem-lua=true
+		-Dsystem-lua-version=$(ver_cut 1-2 $(lua_get_version))
+		$(meson_feature elogind)
+		$(meson_feature systemd)
+		$(meson_use system-service systemd-system-service)
+		$(meson_use systemd systemd-user-service)
+		-Dsystemd-system-unit-dir=$(systemd_get_systemunitdir)
+		-Dsystemd-user-unit-dir=$(systemd_get_userunitdir)
+		$(meson_use test tests)
+		$(meson_use test dbus-tests)
+	)
+
+	meson_src_configure
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	meson_src_install
+
+	exeinto /etc/user/init.d
+	newexe "${FILESDIR}"/wireplumber.initd wireplumber
+
+	mv "${ED}"/usr/share/doc/wireplumber/* "${ED}"/usr/share/doc/${PF} || die
+	rmdir "${ED}"/usr/share/doc/wireplumber || die
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	if use system-service; then
+		ewarn
+		ewarn "WARNING: you have enabled the system-service USE flag, which installs"
+		ewarn "the system-wide systemd units that enable WirePlumber to run as a system"
+		ewarn "service. This is more than likely NOT what you want. You are strongly"
+		ewarn "advised not to enable this mode and instead stick with systemd user"
+		ewarn "units. The default configuration files will likely not work out of"
+		ewarn "box, and you are on your own with configuration."
+		ewarn
+	fi
+}
diff --git a/media-video/wireplumber/wireplumber-9999.ebuild b/media-video/wireplumber/wireplumber-9999.ebuild
index 0e78c0d09113a..25ddc1c5fa567 100644
--- a/media-video/wireplumber/wireplumber-9999.ebuild
+++ b/media-video/wireplumber/wireplumber-9999.ebuild
@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ EAPI=8
 # after releases.
 
 LUA_COMPAT=( lua5-{3,4} )
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..14} )
 
-inherit lua-single meson systemd
+inherit lua-single meson python-any-r1 systemd
 
 DESCRIPTION="Replacement for pipewire-media-session"
 HOMEPAGE="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/wireplumber"
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
 
 # introspection? ( dev-libs/gobject-introspection ) is valid but likely only used for doc building
 BDEPEND="
+	${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	dev-libs/glib
 	dev-util/gdbus-codegen
 	dev-util/glib-utils
@@ -71,6 +73,11 @@ PATCHES=(
 	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-0.5.6-config-disable-sound-server-parts.patch
 )
 
+pkg_setup() {
+	lua-single_pkg_setup
+	python-any-r1_pkg_setup
+}
+
 src_configure() {
 	local emesonargs=(
 		-Ddaemon=true