diff --git a/app-backup/borgmatic/Manifest b/app-backup/borgmatic/Manifest
index 94e7e5565f828..305c1f7d5c7d3 100644
--- a/app-backup/borgmatic/Manifest
+++ b/app-backup/borgmatic/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 DIST borgmatic-1.9.14.tar.gz 656877 BLAKE2B 36f8dce1251b74d67f33aaed5f6ebe41ff1003bd261070724422842143eb84be8b38a884f19da9e2f74a784e4ce4adca6c8ddfb8600f833fea6777585feb0cd8 SHA512 f2d789fab2e7f017c22458a6df3408a4883444aaeac9a4bf258de3eb46b802451d964d39ed441fb01314ff5c9acfd29676e1aab1ba341afb908e458527253705
 DIST borgmatic-2.0.3.tar.gz 676665 BLAKE2B a66429ec7c4bd31102745e6761c945cce4bb3f8af2f97f2f5c66013bce9cb55dba083d2856a8ef088b885345531532bc38350c4b7828e44663b47129a1ce3dc4 SHA512 fa83b7efd92059255bcbc7cd9e5038b94fde0ca39affafc8ce372bcd57eaf5faa5b17be700372110c909f9bb969f9b30cc5ce106e10b114b40684a67cb62d066
 DIST borgmatic-2.0.4.tar.gz 677555 BLAKE2B 17f962d3fa93c52383a73d5e8e5ded92aeba2e933940d1f010b95078e5505ceff90c1a9cf9377e57de78bd00de90f9f639294523bc6729883efcd1510f8b1a11 SHA512 b40a0f8651fd0ef75683ddb10ac87acca38a9d11a47f8351dd07199f264baacea27897d5ce9cb41dea2e77ad3902f113ce07e65dabce858e2f44bea8eac75875
+DIST borgmatic-2.0.5.tar.gz 678806 BLAKE2B 3cb2defa5c93b4dbc37ea7d8e8055d8a31e30564e665a861c7544263416b46ae3ce4eadb4f34e4213d357b6817cd1bc2c62f4fc0cf1563cbb5180f11441841ae SHA512 9226a22c72deff3efb2eb11c8a92de1e1e2f4dd339fcf0991ae4286f8a14ab4be4c54dfa7f7b6a00d0ae816f1b4460fe73387b63482c014c515b8e24d5981cba
diff --git a/app-backup/borgmatic/borgmatic-2.0.5.ebuild b/app-backup/borgmatic/borgmatic-2.0.5.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..cfd9aeca089ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-backup/borgmatic/borgmatic-2.0.5.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} )
+DISTUTILS_SINGLE_IMPL=1
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+
+inherit distutils-r1 eapi9-ver systemd pypi
+
+DESCRIPTION="Automatically create, prune and verify backups with borgbackup"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://torsion.org/borgmatic/
+	https://projects.torsion.org/borgmatic-collective/borgmatic
+"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~riscv"
+IUSE="apprise"
+
+# borg is called as an external tool, hence no pythonic stuff
+RDEPEND="
+	app-backup/borgbackup
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		dev-python/jsonschema[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/packaging[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/requests[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/ruamel-yaml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	')
+	apprise? ( $(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		dev-python/apprise[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	') )
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		${RDEPEND}
+		$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+			dev-python/apprise[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+			>=dev-python/flexmock-0.10.10[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		')
+	)
+"
+
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.7.14-systemd_service_bin_path.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.9.3-no_test_coverage.patch
+)
+
+EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
+	# A fragile test whose only purpose is to make sure the NEWS file
+	# has been updated for the current version.
+	tests/integration/commands/test_borgmatic.py::test_borgmatic_version_matches_news_version
+)
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+src_install() {
+	distutils-r1_src_install
+	systemd_dounit sample/systemd/borgmatic.{service,timer}
+	keepdir /etc/borgmatic
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	if [[ -z "${REPLACING_VERSIONS}" ]]; then
+		elog "To generate a sample configuration file, run:"
+		elog "    ${PN} config generate"
+		elog
+		elog "Systemd users wishing to periodically run ${PN} can use the provided timer and service units."
+	elif ver_replacing -lt 2.0.0; then
+		ewarn "Please be warned that ${PN}-2.0.0 has introduced several breaking changes."
+		ewarn "For details, please see"
+		ewarn
+		ewarn "	https://github.com/borgmatic-collective/borgmatic/releases/tag/2.0.0"
+		ewarn
+	fi
+}