diff --git a/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/Manifest b/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/Manifest
index e3440a9cc6ebd..7d2c11ac69cd7 100644
--- a/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/Manifest
+++ b/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST syntax-highlighting-5.116.0.tar.xz 3432360 BLAKE2B 588924dfe0192d2538068e5b622ce2f8bec16d4203409dd99d7597024a4dfbcfefac070a022d48bb82717fb47dce9d8683405da818be7c624662b91656b0b86c SHA512 e8d0f424ad0349ef1a97fa6cb6a785ef9f2d20ca116b92ad4455bb87a61f868197cbb40e014a4eb0778aee12f40cf892af12717ebbd3545adf76afc05657d5a5
 DIST syntax-highlighting-6.3.0.tar.xz 3532580 BLAKE2B 1060756774ac491ac047a9382749e294b428401f5d44ab448b432ae36b5ac919e61ea7fa688d954e1323513154b609e74d02b45704628d95d310837e4c648e9d SHA512 5e37e9f454448ebe62f6bb19c45f9db002ea75d8e17e4ef88152a2793a47e1e56411fd2aa49b017f5f7abea97d13a7ec683c96b5ff15abf69b674bb7937968c8
+DIST syntax-highlighting-6.4.0.tar.xz 3562448 BLAKE2B 7f5d465af26e9ffc99b9e880548e54671afbc79b7bdd296d58c307ac2e5fd0ca05684ed5781bf3b661d3ccde26e8de686e14848fed2cadaee7e02d49c5828a78 SHA512 ae5b00439c58da6ec275c9fae231c39e245c6821eb6efa4549a4d164c16ab5e45e6a9a1153a524b400ed49d1aed8f18d06d9c8f60024ce64ef9fabccfd01ef45
diff --git a/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/syntax-highlighting-6.4.0.ebuild b/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/syntax-highlighting-6.4.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..3023453fdfb81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/syntax-highlighting-6.4.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+ECM_TEST="forceoptional"
+QTMIN=6.6.2
+inherit ecm frameworks.kde.org
+
+DESCRIPTION="Framework for syntax highlighting"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~riscv"
+IUSE=""
+
+# examples: dev-qt/qtbase[printsupport,widgets]
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-qt/qtbase-${QTMIN}:6[gui,network]
+	>=dev-qt/qtdeclarative-${QTMIN}:6
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-libs/xerces-c
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-lang/perl
+	>=dev-qt/qttools-${QTMIN}:6[linguist]
+"