diff --git a/dev-lua/lua-term/Manifest b/dev-lua/lua-term/Manifest
index 47939a9931a04..7b7b7ef410e37 100644
--- a/dev-lua/lua-term/Manifest
+++ b/dev-lua/lua-term/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST lua-term-0.7.tar.gz 4365 BLAKE2B 8f4080d4cd3b620cb1f261d417744f112d42b776ab3f4cdb0e52d04b6d64fc4a1ddbd634570496c3bc12e6b10efe5af8025d1f124198ebb3946414679a65f7f4 SHA512 2046ba1861ff590c191bb651941c45eb8b6e9a1252b05e78daaeb31837ce1fc7da9ba124aec34dc7842fd304e945754c463ffd75941125ff952e911ba66efa31
+DIST lua-term-0.8.tar.gz 4838 BLAKE2B 690c9e7b7e831d69d0a2626c69721ca53fe9026e4885af50925942ebce1ffa44b2242cbe91b4ddcccfa2fbd56b3eeb3eeb8aa5014d1689ed1b6d2e184da785aa SHA512 115d2696f244945d876ae97ea6e9f3be0ea0e19ec7e057cbc047d3189482fca0e21ff68fee79e5d24257496cf51f507451f408f0b0a952ff707ffe0eedc36866
diff --git a/dev-lua/lua-term/lua-term-0.8.ebuild b/dev-lua/lua-term/lua-term-0.8.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..15fe641ac5fc7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lua/lua-term/lua-term-0.8.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+LUA_COMPAT=( lua5-{1..4} luajit )
+MY_PV="0.08"
+
+inherit lua toolchain-funcs
+
+DESCRIPTION="Terminal operations for Lua"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/hoelzro/lua-term"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/hoelzro/lua-term/archive/${MY_PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${MY_PV}"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc ~x86"
+REQUIRED_USE="${LUA_REQUIRED_USE}"
+
+RDEPEND="${LUA_DEPS}"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	# Respect users CFLAGS
+	sed -e 's/-O3//g' -i Makefile
+
+	lua_copy_sources
+}
+
+lua_src_compile() {
+	pushd "${BUILD_DIR}" || die
+
+	local myemakeargs=(
+		"CC=$(tc-getCC)"
+		"CFLAGS=${CFLAGS} -fPIC ${LDFLAGS} $(lua_get_CFLAGS)"
+	)
+
+	emake "${myemakeargs[@]}" all
+
+	popd
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	lua_foreach_impl lua_src_compile
+}
+
+lua_src_install() {
+	pushd "${BUILD_DIR}" || die
+
+	local myemakeargs=(
+		LUA_LIBDIR="${ED}/$(lua_get_cmod_dir)/term"
+		LUA_SHARE="${ED}/$(lua_get_lmod_dir)/term"
+	)
+
+	emake "${myemakeargs[@]}" install
+
+	popd
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	lua_foreach_impl lua_src_install
+}