diff --git a/sci-libs/libcifpp/Manifest b/sci-libs/libcifpp/Manifest
index bed2fee24d63f..224ee8a40fc65 100644
--- a/sci-libs/libcifpp/Manifest
+++ b/sci-libs/libcifpp/Manifest
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@ DIST libcifpp-7.0.8-components.cif.xz 66099572 BLAKE2B ef50f385b3bb58d945bc0e5ab
 DIST libcifpp-7.0.8.tar.gz 2648244 BLAKE2B fc591c80156038b9636538d6da2a031d3d2956ecad14f83e94cf8bb62d00f9e7cc8d2667baab98781fcb187c6b8256e055f011dfc38f91916fcff0875e5514db SHA512 ccf28ee8461e199914b91607708aea1946d7933a1c92a809e1ae8560120ec00c3981af3063322a0a59f85e77ec9c5d42ddf0e7ab87387511434226b965e6ced6
 DIST libcifpp-7.0.9-components.cif.xz 67258320 BLAKE2B de58656fde178797e52043142344000fc49128ea715f8e7c76b3478b0b57f05625689146a8f986dbe5691eddc9391547bd555b3c99d50a9b8a61f071a1db6e88 SHA512 9c9beef16f72231d72c802bd1d53f434829aa05d5885eb3c6260c94f45e9059e275f74f7f3f7f80e0013697523ebb0f5f2de7acffe5185548ec65feb43f3b438
 DIST libcifpp-7.0.9.tar.gz 2648279 BLAKE2B 9d3284c0dde3feab8bacce1836337bec4cfe564d5d47a1b7d72f8badda1b698fd75ad5c8766a2e60bbaf5e24417df22ca44cc4197f8c7e275f110e29ad0e09b7 SHA512 0326bf3df4c3050ca1b2fd7f545ea669715f76729b7a4d651362c47f1f878fe5a4d2cd038f6f793ddf8d3f43749889ab86a3411af31abc5c4c6bc2dde1792037
+DIST libcifpp-8.0.0-components.cif.xz 68577028 BLAKE2B aca7834bda814d4942f77980e468aa3354dd9826689504f97db4d5c856903452a573b7a107f0d7394045cd1b242f9b517c1ac6bda9145fc54ee11fdfcc50ee80 SHA512 bf6d64cb148646d1d9f6f0f044c39a64214a65d0ada8336f65b64d313c081339a39819fcc6bf0040ea8e1760aaed10413e9386c97bd4a24a496e896532aa0521
+DIST libcifpp-8.0.0.tar.gz 2724783 BLAKE2B 288af3eff5423aba2b15487c9c8f5369ec9f25b9c3e46ceebfd637404300f766555c6f9750ff868b235265cdc3a347fa6cb009f19ef718f69e0eb6f94b73e26b SHA512 8eb6b32650d4262154e4faf53c9a1d9fa1981b34c0a64d8f6efe81e7a60f77c1e3002a78679ee3dfed9fbc0437e7c86254cc32369465a3bb2e415b720d164fdc
diff --git a/sci-libs/libcifpp/libcifpp-8.0.0.ebuild b/sci-libs/libcifpp/libcifpp-8.0.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..adcf817096855
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sci-libs/libcifpp/libcifpp-8.0.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+inherit cmake
+
+DESCRIPTION="Code to work with mmCIF and PDB files"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/PDB-REDO/libcifpp"
+# Update components file on every bump
+# https://files.wwpdb.org/pub/pdb/data/monomers/components.cif.gz
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/PDB-REDO/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz
+	https://dev.gentoo.org/~pacho/${PN}/${P}-components.cif.xz
+"
+
+LICENSE="BSD-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="test"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+DEPEND="
+	>=dev-cpp/eigen-3.4.0:3
+	dev-libs/boost:=
+	sys-libs/zlib
+	test? ( dev-cpp/catch:0 )
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+src_configure() {
+	cp "${WORKDIR}"/${P}-components.cif rsrc/components.cif || die
+
+	local mycmakeargs=(
+		-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON
+		-DCIFPP_INSTALL_UPDATE_SCRIPT=OFF
+		-DBUILD_TESTING="$(usex test)"
+	)
+	cmake_src_configure
+}