diff --git a/dev-python/myst-parser/Manifest b/dev-python/myst-parser/Manifest
index e57c40a17a4d5..5b1ae099600c2 100644
--- a/dev-python/myst-parser/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/myst-parser/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST MyST-Parser-4.0.0.gh.tar.gz 825843 BLAKE2B 60361e72014fc4428e026f6b93f91878824a0cd46bbe128b04c0ab9e9578c252fea6ece23dfbee0b1652d5529e411669d7cdab3ffebe8128e791ebdd26b950cd SHA512 82a8c642d839133413577fd85b5668a6b4d3869f60b7c7c64f98ec6cf52f33b28abd33ee7ddbbf8e286a3f233a152878802e6a8091c88f63844ac774c88ebd62
+DIST MyST-Parser-4.0.1.gh.tar.gz 825970 BLAKE2B 04e8da0947d0acd8fb9dd73b3f133ee14e119868bb119882bfab972ca7a402d0afd9b8fec1f3f26500ae2a6581fcae4f782e577411ef78f3b4b893e1c50c9426 SHA512 40bdad9abb84cda3c77303dd7ad766c77df43bca11c787812007f2399525fe955201b09495079a88973ada3e87102c95eeec2cba6d2be89f6b61d3c9df57bfae
diff --git a/dev-python/myst-parser/myst-parser-4.0.1.ebuild b/dev-python/myst-parser/myst-parser-4.0.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2022-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=flit
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} pypy3 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+MY_P=MyST-Parser-${PV}
+DESCRIPTION="Extended commonmark compliant parser, with bridges to Sphinx"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/executablebooks/MyST-Parser/
+	https://pypi.org/project/myst-parser/
+"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/executablebooks/MyST-Parser/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz
+		-> ${MY_P}.gh.tar.gz
+"
+S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/docutils-0.18[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/jinja2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	<dev-python/markdown-it-py-4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/markdown-it-py-3.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	<dev-python/mdit-py-plugins-0.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/mdit-py-plugins-0.4.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pyyaml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	<dev-python/sphinx-9[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/sphinx-6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		dev-python/beautifulsoup4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/defusedxml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		<dev-python/linkify-it-py-3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/linkify-it-py-2.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest-regressions[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest-param-files[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/sphinx-7.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/sphinx-pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
+	# minor pygments mismatch
+	tests/test_sphinx/test_sphinx_builds.py::test_includes
+)
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	# unpin docutils
+	sed -i -e '/docutils/s:,<[0-9.]*::' pyproject.toml || die
+}