diff --git a/app-text/pandoc-bin/Manifest b/app-text/pandoc-bin/Manifest
index f7d37cbb259d8..2c397a593f088 100644
--- a/app-text/pandoc-bin/Manifest
+++ b/app-text/pandoc-bin/Manifest
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@ DIST pandoc-3.7.0.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz 33678610 BLAKE2B e52e3f016e05e8786f07d06f
 DIST pandoc-3.7.0.2-linux-arm64.tar.gz 36571354 BLAKE2B 6c16c2e156e644ca785dc223885348ac0297e914a757a9ff7d1dbf3bdcace9b04c4ab34fda60a7db265860fd05614aedbc36e3cb65d409f846684adb3de41378 SHA512 dc377e6447439156e41fd12c18ad07881afbe714db0764546f23b201568af612abca620411489235c0b37506651420d955fc3c71c409d4f64af3db2e505f5115
 DIST pandoc-3.8-linux-amd64.tar.gz 34067480 BLAKE2B ec6f5a7e1f52fb86828917d2ba37b9d46852f75abf0339eab85c88c31de2e8a6263aaf56b713e62e02121675880313f16fc2debdfe0569f413d3f2275706a2d4 SHA512 12c6d67f600bb6c9488c8d30194b73f06418911b283ef30e64ffe481e1600ed63bbd47fdddbee175a11ccd5dc11f3557a49400a6e310f465fc0653390efe3caf
 DIST pandoc-3.8-linux-arm64.tar.gz 36980605 BLAKE2B afc20832edf71b6cd0da77f4300ec8f68dbec34bff01d9939187dfc17118466df8aed88f76475e5877637daf360d1e6606e477beff4762fd735e768477899955 SHA512 4f95c5d2502387167fe677bb496e75d0e6a7fd41c06d79272e57a3f38d331c7378c6fadac5f9dfdfeb4806defa639ebb5fa1dbc9c4c04c87cee6aba9ef109eef
+DIST pandoc-3.8.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz 34162807 BLAKE2B 2ffc74617acf1a4a470172b9ffb3389100c6ddc36074b0b1135089a2b30c26034a945f023f1ebc26cd2a6de879c036e822e54b563ee10abef7d7a8d33f210932 SHA512 ce9799d3eee85751425554a71fd45fed62e4d55ebda8617346d5e868783691b660574979953d4bc6134336f0b92f61f8e20960266c360a25b688091184c4d6d7
+DIST pandoc-3.8.1-linux-arm64.tar.gz 37090163 BLAKE2B 5b6b2f48c42fc321e6bdca63d09f2c2e6eb5d31629ca0e3288b8aacc8928e5fb4496a21ec50be86485f6b034938500fc5b50e6d707df180e3e35fec2e2173582 SHA512 376fdca279b2407e5318d8aa6fe5f1491a4fe5af0d6f8f375ec0729bf253fd5167cdf4a2762f3f4b9e6c5b9b80f3b5a830d30ac476e03c880e203548188e615a
diff --git a/app-text/pandoc-bin/pandoc-bin-3.8.1.ebuild b/app-text/pandoc-bin/pandoc-bin-3.8.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..11c2135c22abd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-text/pandoc-bin/pandoc-bin-3.8.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+MY_PN="${PN//-bin/}"
+MY_P="${MY_PN}-${PV}"
+
+DESCRIPTION="Conversion between markup formats (binary package)"
+HOMEPAGE="https://pandoc.org/
+	https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/"
+
+BASE_URI="https://github.com/jgm/${MY_PN}/releases/download/${PV}/${MY_P}"
+SRC_URI="
+	amd64? ( ${BASE_URI}-linux-amd64.tar.gz )
+	arm64? ( ${BASE_URI}-linux-arm64.tar.gz )
+"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="-* ~amd64 ~arm64"
+IUSE="+pandoc-symlink"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	pandoc-symlink? (
+		!${CATEGORY}/${MY_PN}
+		!app-text/pandoc-cli
+		!dev-haskell/pandoc
+	)
+"
+
+QA_FLAGS_IGNORED="usr/bin/${PN}"
+QA_PRESTRIPPED="${QA_FLAGS_IGNORED}"
+
+src_unpack() {
+	default
+
+	# Manpages are gzipped.
+	unpack "${S}/share/man/man1"/*.1.gz
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	exeinto /usr/bin
+	newexe "./bin/${MY_PN}" "${PN}"
+
+	dosym "${PN}" /usr/bin/pandoc-lua-bin
+	dosym "${PN}" /usr/bin/pandoc-server-bin
+
+	newman "${WORKDIR}/${MY_PN}.1" "${PN}.1"
+	newman "${WORKDIR}/${MY_PN}-lua.1" pandoc-lua-bin.1
+	newman "${WORKDIR}/${MY_PN}-server.1" pandoc-server-bin.1
+
+	if use pandoc-symlink ; then
+		local -a exes=(
+			pandoc
+			pandoc-lua
+			pandoc-server
+		)
+
+		local exe=""
+		for exe in "${exes[@]}" ; do
+			dosym "${exe}-bin" "/usr/bin/${exe}"
+			dosym "${exe}-bin.1" "/usr/share/man/man1/${exe}.1"
+		done
+	fi
+}