diff --git a/net-libs/libnxml/Manifest b/net-libs/libnxml/Manifest
index 3957d8ddab7ba..8476c4d83a960 100644
--- a/net-libs/libnxml/Manifest
+++ b/net-libs/libnxml/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST libnxml-0.18.3.tar.gz 361977 BLAKE2B babe5773f102889d52d0d63511984201e220205925b703221559cf73c8e380b78b3788ff48bdc2da382746bb95acf4c9a70c69d689c4fd7db3be4bd65f44000d SHA512 fc420a4b773eca68608ac1d509930a0528c3a41b53fc7cc340c09fd53f92a88afb4091e810d97d59e73a8beeaaeed52dd3c880273ef512a5305800b3ef46717a
+DIST libnxml-0.18.5.tar.gz 37357 BLAKE2B cc8a7fe54b19c5cfdda3f1fcb87cce201afc0cdc0389da31f2cb920ea01a8d14aadaf1b64d8faacb5559d5483571524a988e33947b05ab66ebae9be3283e19fa SHA512 438f6560ecc33105a88a09d30f052cd29ae40880b50fb05cb86dda689069e51250a246329cab75972f85ab97c06d7d7a3bdc385d9ffe9bd05614fe29fe8d326e
diff --git a/net-libs/libnxml/libnxml-0.18.5.ebuild b/net-libs/libnxml/libnxml-0.18.5.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8aa9540e50e0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-libs/libnxml/libnxml-0.18.5.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=9
+
+inherit autotools
+
+DESCRIPTION="A C-library for parsing and writing XML 1.0/1.1 files or streams"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.autistici.org/bakunin/libnxml/doc/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/bakulf/libnxml/archive/refs/tags/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86"
+IUSE="doc examples"
+
+RDEPEND="net-misc/curl"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="doc? ( app-text/doxygen )"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	eautoreconf
+
+	# Fix lib dir in installed pkgconfig file
+	sed -i -e "s:\${exec_prefix}/lib:\${exec_prefix}/$(get_libdir):" nxml.pc.in \
+		|| die "Failed to correct pkgconfig file"
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	econf --disable-static
+	sed -i -e 's/easy$(EXEEXT)//' test/Makefile || die # disable network test
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	default
+
+	if use doc; then
+		ebegin "Creating documentation"
+		doxygen doxy.conf || die "generating docs failed"
+		# clean out doxygen gunk
+		rm doc/html/*.{md5,map} || die
+		HTML_DOCS=( doc/html/. )
+		eend 0
+	fi
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	default
+
+	if use examples; then
+		docinto test
+		dodoc test/*.c
+	fi
+
+	# no static archives
+	find "${D}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
+}