diff --git a/kde-frameworks/bluez-qt/Manifest b/kde-frameworks/bluez-qt/Manifest
index 763f6c2413d55..328c7b5379bed 100644
--- a/kde-frameworks/bluez-qt/Manifest
+++ b/kde-frameworks/bluez-qt/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST bluez-qt-6.13.0.tar.xz 115728 BLAKE2B 12ec9e858f44bcc71d4ddd0e9241c45fc96f4fa642f35a15451994004bb2553234636f9a6bce087102563db0a57aa0eaf9a97d48ce4170da01c95fa62f09f6fa SHA512 cf003a8f65bd1fa474b6b81b3c2ad6c822c0ed957da86efb9e17536bdb9468ff1785b9fb3372f9527393c371278d3fe3813d55a5bb932fb90cd0b0ff2287e759
 DIST bluez-qt-6.15.0.tar.xz 116036 BLAKE2B 8af9f3a9573c5da19e4fcd582782f09b1b7e4853a58cac73aa0b2f7e29559a2dc82f688b2ab4c6105b00acab09dc5cff938f1fdf5f2712c364da1b00f2ab51e4 SHA512 fb28133ea1eb2ecdd5f2cc95cd5166a795e8bcd523166009214d4f29f45370fcd6256e7becbcaf0558bd60f1238e8bac63ce9d5a6cbbccaefa9d3dbb40a307e5
+DIST bluez-qt-6.16.0.tar.xz 116068 BLAKE2B e57a13a8b09156e8140e6a1f3840519bb5e92c0b424a8b37ee359c86c1d34cc4539d381d6a1163992ea84ec4988005081fc02d14d2d7db58e66c3f3fb75785ee SHA512 f12d008af7261b476cd9cb35cc96b413e62ce3689dc3582bb8160678216ff2fbc6aaca2d9558bad9c8486d9136489667775f632149dbf9b13fd462ecd28540c3
diff --git a/kde-frameworks/bluez-qt/bluez-qt-6.16.0.ebuild b/kde-frameworks/bluez-qt/bluez-qt-6.16.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f937e1e1f4b7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kde-frameworks/bluez-qt/bluez-qt-6.16.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+QTMIN=6.7.2
+inherit ecm frameworks.kde.org
+
+DESCRIPTION="Qt wrapper for Bluez 5 DBus API"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~loong ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
+IUSE=""
+
+RESTRICT="test" # bugs 668196, 924708; they all hang
+
+DEPEND="
+	>=dev-qt/qtbase-${QTMIN}:6[dbus,network]
+	>=dev-qt/qtdeclarative-${QTMIN}:6
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+src_test() {
+	# parallel tests fail, bug 609248
+	ecm_src_test -j1
+}