diff --git a/dev-python/starlette/Manifest b/dev-python/starlette/Manifest
index f17d3e6dd416c..3fcafc9434f85 100644
--- a/dev-python/starlette/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/starlette/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST starlette-0.38.2.gh.tar.gz 2847558 BLAKE2B 8416b4c0ab06be3cd0a90916cbd6682f28f4f09ed38bac0558fd6293bc4e1069c5d09a2a3e6ecc62522290db1dd05e4828eaceab96d547947bffb6d464364aa5 SHA512 5594f2f073662250cd7ca47bf835af09b77decd78b5e2f2a5e25fc87e3e59ccc61e6c07ad854feda11b1af8535744557d70778d2c57d01554756f8da10678a97
+DIST starlette-0.38.4.gh.tar.gz 2571795 BLAKE2B 0a4d9856b3bf51a2d86b36bec74df7845209d0e6b0cc5865180d498e60b5d29ad8fe32e5137c3b7f6e69ee805f3fa2544c338715401fcb6cb46aaf7030e3334f SHA512 853b1562f90f487306c23753b4ec41f099b3115bdc64a5b87d0db43374ce86a6546c4845fcd924965a7566ca7b52e6ab768825bb05830967f7f860e3a32a00ac
diff --git a/dev-python/starlette/starlette-0.38.4.ebuild b/dev-python/starlette/starlette-0.38.4.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..41aa434becfa1
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+# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=hatchling
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( pypy3 python3_{10..13} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+MY_P=${P/_p/.post}
+DESCRIPTION="The little ASGI framework that shines"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://www.starlette.io/
+	https://github.com/encode/starlette/
+	https://pypi.org/project/starlette/
+"
+# no docs or tests in sdist, as of 0.27.0
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/encode/starlette/archive/${PV/_p/.post}.tar.gz
+		-> ${MY_P}.gh.tar.gz
+"
+S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~loong ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	<dev-python/anyio-5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/anyio-3.4.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/httpx-0.22.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/itsdangerous[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/jinja[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/python-multipart-0.0.7[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pyyaml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		>=dev-python/pytest-8[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/trio[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+: ${EPYTEST_TIMEOUT:-180}
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+python_test() {
+	local EPYTEST_IGNORE=(
+		# Unpackaged 'databases' dependency
+		tests/test_database.py
+	)
+
+	local -x PYTEST_DISABLE_PLUGIN_AUTOLOAD=1
+	epytest -p anyio
+}