diff --git a/media-libs/hamlib/Manifest b/media-libs/hamlib/Manifest
index 47edefe7c4d2f..dd6f5f937b0df 100644
--- a/media-libs/hamlib/Manifest
+++ b/media-libs/hamlib/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST hamlib-4.6.2.tar.gz 2909790 BLAKE2B 8bba73b446be13f4be592333b51b863f7299d189c640e2d1bfb6dd82f8f5e19ed6a1f39be09811d2061bb416696dd24907a9248b7bc96360e7a0fec8783701b1 SHA512 8b8b7e4c95e4331f1ace1d724924e30c66a88d04d5354fd28d28090b751184300196e4512504136ece98cef374e69dd58cc597819f8802ddadb978c7a0bf731d
+DIST hamlib-4.6.3.tar.gz 2922305 BLAKE2B 0105dd195d71a4c09cf46abd0ddc0a4c91e260eaa41d948ad9c7355179ea183cd939d14e49b7d946d360bc1e2eb3cf621e51d199f369e8d7f2d428ccbd27cb0e SHA512 f0571bc9cb702f481934772053730cc72068d636690f94165bc7b9aeb3e9a7ec00ab7296b5ff109f99a0cdb8605ca1be84c50e58f5ae69bae8e0e3458b556cb5
diff --git a/media-libs/hamlib/hamlib-4.6.3.ebuild b/media-libs/hamlib/hamlib-4.6.3.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..c2b2414833e2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media-libs/hamlib/hamlib-4.6.3.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} )
+MY_P=${P/_rc2/~rc2}
+
+inherit autotools flag-o-matic python-single-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Ham radio backend rig control libraries"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.hamlib.github.io"
+SRC_URI="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/hamlib/${MY_P}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2+ GPL-2+"
+SLOT="0/4.2"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~riscv ~x86"
+IUSE="doc perl python tcl"
+
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	=virtual/libusb-0*
+	dev-libs/libxml2:=
+	sys-libs/readline:0=
+	perl? ( dev-lang/perl )
+	python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )
+	tcl? ( dev-lang/tcl:0= )"
+
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+	dev-lang/swig
+	dev-build/autoconf-archive
+	>=dev-build/libtool-2.2
+	doc? ( app-text/doxygen
+		dev-util/source-highlight )"
+
+REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
+
+DOCS=(AUTHORS NEWS PLAN README README.betatester README.developer)
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	use python && python-single-r1_pkg_setup
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	# Correct install target to whatever INSTALLDIRS says and use vendor
+	# installdirs everywhere (bug #611550)
+	sed -i -e "s#install_site#install#"	\
+	-e 's#MAKEFILE="Hamlib-pl.mk"#MAKEFILE="Hamlib-pl.mk" INSTALLDIRS=vendor#' \
+	bindings/Makefile.am || die "sed failed patching for perl"
+
+	# make building of documentation compatible with autotools-utils
+	sed -i -e "s/doc:/html:/g" doc/Makefile.am || die "sed failed"
+
+	eautoreconf
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	# -Werror=lto-type-mismatch
+	# https://bugs.gentoo.org/926839
+	# https://github.com/Hamlib/Hamlib/issues/1524
+	filter-lto
+
+	econf \
+		--libdir=/usr/$(get_libdir)/hamlib \
+		--disable-static \
+		--with-xml-support \
+		$(use_with perl perl-binding) \
+		$(use_with python python-binding) \
+		$(use_with tcl tcl-binding)
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	emake
+	use doc && emake html
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install
+
+	use python && python_optimize
+
+	use doc && HTML_DOCS=( doc/html/ )
+	einstalldocs
+
+	insinto /usr/$(get_libdir)/pkgconfig
+	doins hamlib.pc
+
+	echo "LDPATH=/usr/$(get_libdir)/hamlib" > "${T}"/73hamlib
+	doenvd "${T}"/73hamlib
+
+	find "${ED}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
+}