diff --git a/dev-cpp/rapidyaml/Manifest b/dev-cpp/rapidyaml/Manifest
index 78eba664e4a45..82cc7661b8ce6 100644
--- a/dev-cpp/rapidyaml/Manifest
+++ b/dev-cpp/rapidyaml/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST rapidyaml-0.12.1-src.tgz 10391033 BLAKE2B 5f6c674e23c9ac2b535cbf17bff8e497abbb199156c32dbae5d039af82d7aba567248b5e79f9e830c97ec9bbc07136a97cd730a24fa974e9f6f4b3b570534fb9 SHA512 043d48c7ff4c4751a69b4d0852ee4ccc0a6b4984cc78a3aa33ddf520519cb3c798d0a934d8d7769137748681fc60c60ba4053f6548e9e48221e60be53c67d6b4
+DIST rapidyaml-0.15.2-src.tgz 10437389 BLAKE2B 8371690b49ca86a01e7aaa918142491d28e17a28bab8d500ed48aee153e3af8582d9ff8a1656817be46d75c9cc377e5bccf4beb0012b4351ad1f1f7adf2a026e SHA512 7f26b3ce8301c84e98b74ac1ac8097d694c419ea5bdd3cb795639c9d5792d12ba469ed4625292db410c2b57acf6ec69bb5c0a7a55bab99a447d051a22b89da94
diff --git a/dev-cpp/rapidyaml/rapidyaml-0.15.2.ebuild b/dev-cpp/rapidyaml/rapidyaml-0.15.2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..d58ef139c5cb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-cpp/rapidyaml/rapidyaml-0.15.2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# Copyright 2022-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit cmake
+
+DESCRIPTION="Library to parse and emit YAML, and do it fast"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/biojppm/rapidyaml/"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/biojppm/rapidyaml/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}-src.tgz
+"
+S=${WORKDIR}/${P}-src
+
+LICENSE="MIT Boost-1.0 BSD"
+SLOT="0/${PV}"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
+
+# in general would rather keep this package low maintenance due to
+# its build system, and tests + python bindings give headaches
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+DOCS=( README.md ROADMAP.md changelog )