diff --git a/kde-frameworks/kitemmodels/Manifest b/kde-frameworks/kitemmodels/Manifest
index b9932ff88c3c4..66d5790e1f489 100644
--- a/kde-frameworks/kitemmodels/Manifest
+++ b/kde-frameworks/kitemmodels/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST kitemmodels-5.92.0.tar.xz 407008 BLAKE2B 5a5da7ad73b7eb63b64b1fa04032e85c300b936757d11fc2573d025db85007ec46083a98037f3eff193f4078c763ef53aec585cdd7f7018c71bee8e8f415b47b SHA512 cede4a959abc66aeb58902630f66c48fda7ffcffa6bd43682cb17699b58bc2a955a7b86d9e40cc627470fc52db33906c6ae74973fec440fcea5e862715afcda7
 DIST kitemmodels-5.95.0.tar.xz 407252 BLAKE2B 06c8774db4f11072455ce967c65a6fe0b6c1375db84dc7ec76c733eee83d4c848f2758bbb817aa49434c4214cd50c010cc462e0273c4db540d4bd2d4fdfdb60e SHA512 36e43dc0dc2edbffc936f75232423ec6319d0fda9bdb8652aa555d4f0599f796219be777241fe2654a1737fe8f29bafbb9fbb80bd47e77c060ddc5b805b88085
+DIST kitemmodels-5.96.0.tar.xz 407272 BLAKE2B 35563933a1371e8c89da764286e6b2270d74b7bf27091d08b9910510c4a66995cc89f1bc30191eaea50338685c3ae40f2488ad6c04d6091c6d3d6dfa5868d04d SHA512 46e4380788f49ff79c6e7a7d372c6e451a83ddf349e175be41fb9db5311399c342e5a1e3dbd268c05b089d49700157d87b683dbf894be25b6ce8842380ee6a70
diff --git a/kde-frameworks/kitemmodels/kitemmodels-5.96.0.ebuild b/kde-frameworks/kitemmodels/kitemmodels-5.96.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..a14df576bfeab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kde-frameworks/kitemmodels/kitemmodels-5.96.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+QTMIN=5.15.4
+VIRTUALX_REQUIRED="test"
+inherit ecm kde.org
+
+DESCRIPTION="Framework providing data models to help with tasks such as sorting and filtering"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2+"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~loong ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
+IUSE="qml"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	qml? ( >=dev-qt/qtdeclarative-${QTMIN}:5 )
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	test? ( >=dev-qt/qtwidgets-${QTMIN}:5 )
+"
+
+src_configure() {
+	local mycmakeargs=(
+		$(cmake_use_find_package qml Qt5Qml)
+	)
+	ecm_src_configure
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	LC_NUMERIC="C" ecm_src_test # bug 708820
+}