diff --git a/media-sound/upmpdcli/Manifest b/media-sound/upmpdcli/Manifest
index 683da3e700e7..31f8193d9212 100644
--- a/media-sound/upmpdcli/Manifest
+++ b/media-sound/upmpdcli/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST upmpdcli-1.9.5.tar.gz 853705 BLAKE2B ec9294a5bb4b2b2f4d18fc2aba2e1320f0733f7869bf9b4ce4acce14f4d11416514964b287c89098ca02761f76183867a2aaabc917982e3a3009eb4e971a178b SHA512 0d6a77ac859aeb468fb7cbdc0baf4735baa55308a053a17f4ab0552d2310ad6862eebfb33629bb46a74665478aef01379c2ff60ce092e5dc8c8a70dccbc23cd9
+DIST upmpdcli-1.9.6.tar.gz 860185 BLAKE2B cf8b2590db183b14a0e3503bc40bf6304b603f4e1a55de9a9760bb9f5f33896eeaab661bb13a9cb0f95ac12f92aff771a5c22fd463a15e4ebfb6f7e68c57cc90 SHA512 48b8de75684847cf83d1ec240f3a4050c7923520e840040b69a35bb66c71cc25a95cb21e62442c4631caafcb3997078527f922f55d2fda9c98f8d5181698329d
diff --git a/media-sound/upmpdcli/upmpdcli-1.9.6.ebuild b/media-sound/upmpdcli/upmpdcli-1.9.6.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c5dc01e66c95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media-sound/upmpdcli/upmpdcli-1.9.6.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit meson systemd
+
+DESCRIPTION="UPnP Media Renderer front-end for MPD, the Music Player Daemon"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/upmpdcli/index.html"
+
+SRC_URI="https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/upmpdcli/downloads/${P}.tar.gz"
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="thirdparty"
+
+DEPEND="
+	net-misc/curl
+	dev-libs/jsoncpp
+	media-libs/libmpdclient
+	net-libs/libmicrohttpd:=
+	>net-libs/libupnpp-0.26.4
+"
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+	acct-group/upmpdcli
+	acct-user/upmpdcli
+	app-misc/recoll
+	thirdparty? ( dev-python/requests )
+"
+
+src_install() {
+	meson_src_install
+	newinitd "${FILESDIR}/${PN}.initd" "${PN}"
+	newconfd "${FILESDIR}/${PN}.confd" "${PN}"
+	systemd_dounit systemd/upmpdcli.service
+}