diff --git a/app-text/lowdown/Manifest b/app-text/lowdown/Manifest
index 57c17a3f31088..4230c0f803d9a 100644
--- a/app-text/lowdown/Manifest
+++ b/app-text/lowdown/Manifest
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ DIST lowdown-2.0.2.tar.gz 676246 BLAKE2B 35ca947673d7582b64687200429f8e806703cc0
 DIST lowdown-2.0.4.tar.gz 697300 BLAKE2B 07afe0f0a5e4d7f258bed5fc7a4a2e052384f852b12cf285cf3546cbe92bc05dd8d38ca3553cb0314a2823b22526f1a97be042dbdb472397afa10eb9c638a8d7 SHA512 db396f738c3effdd55f112f2f71183b32b45ae2f8ba999e03df5162612e26a313d7b3ca1c5840cb71805f4429a4a3b67fe61a731aadc5cc989b74ff2da2d5b7e
 DIST lowdown-3.0.1.tar.gz 766585 BLAKE2B 5dfb8671ec39ddc166cd3173219e5aa9580261896bca3c17ba6d695338d7cc7b66583c232723e2645b7185d7dec595033d4dc6589dae55719ca3256745653f6c SHA512 cad6d4716c681f40922c7a6b0d2af20deaaa33dac790eb803e3ccd0c4759c16413ede939f86925a871c5e3485b9ab800c4128ddeb3057c0efb939dbf83b025c3
 DIST lowdown-3.1.1.tar.gz 773421 BLAKE2B ffed6e3a70429fa07c66123c86efda639fb7106e777e57ca96d422ed28fc44b34a5130a2f3360c9bf23d53c523d2a6b64abe29dbdaad5c6415e991dc686d8627 SHA512 05c6a0c6fcb0ffc45d7f60c5aecc43e96d89eb5708558098009db8aecd2e527bdac44dcce8cf91c139275f5405202b6cf838c0e56852a523fc8070d792fc8709
+DIST lowdown-3.2.1.tar.gz 784560 BLAKE2B 4628c685fb79438fb83e4abd3920b2fe31bfbcf81aad4552920817f028b733ea21127447575d57641ae278740fa64290c7a69ae025a108de08f2e009358425e2 SHA512 73c7e614fc9cc5a4c441f95e9fc3b078db5456eeee5ad42212111d7837c9fe482cf34ae116e1a62eef5afc56bf98640a1f1656044c4b13aec3fe7e3622e44c87
diff --git a/app-text/lowdown/lowdown-3.2.1.ebuild b/app-text/lowdown/lowdown-3.2.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..588d2ae2d5364
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-text/lowdown/lowdown-3.2.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+# Copyright 2021-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit flag-o-matic multiprocessing toolchain-funcs
+
+MY_PV="VERSION_${PV//./_}"
+DESCRIPTION="Markdown translator producing HTML5, roff documents in the ms and man formats"
+HOMEPAGE="https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/kristapsdz/lowdown/archive/refs/tags/${MY_PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${MY_PV}"
+
+LICENSE="ISC"
+SLOT="0/4"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc ~x86"
+
+DEPEND="
+	virtual/libcrypt:=
+"
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-build/bmake
+"
+
+# configure tests for a bunch of BSD functions on Linux
+QA_CONFIG_IMPL_DECL_SKIP=(
+	crypt_newhash
+	crypt_checkpass
+	warnc
+	errc
+	getexecname
+	getprogname
+	memset_s
+	pledge
+	recallocarray
+	strlcat
+	strlcpy
+	strtonum
+	TAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE
+	unveil
+	arc4random
+	b64_ntop
+	timingsafe_bcmp
+	timingsafe_memcmp
+)
+
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}/lowdown-0.10.0-pkgconfig-libmd.patch"
+)
+
+src_configure() {
+	append-flags -fPIC
+	tc-export CC AR
+
+	local jobs="$(makeopts_jobs)"
+	unset MAKEOPTS
+	unset MAKEFLAGS
+
+	export MAKEOPTS="-j${jobs}"
+	export MAKEFLAGS= #966238
+	export MAKE=bmake
+
+	./configure \
+		PREFIX="${EPREFIX}/usr" \
+		MANDIR="${EPREFIX}/usr/share/man" \
+		LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}" \
+		CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS}" \
+		LIBDIR="${EPREFIX}/usr/$(get_libdir)" \
+		|| die "./configure failed"
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	emake $(usex elibc_musl UTF8_LOCALE=C.UTF-8 '')
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${S}" emake regress
+}