diff --git a/dev-python/platformdirs/Manifest b/dev-python/platformdirs/Manifest
index 5d1a41dca2f5e..11b0cfc1bb147 100644
--- a/dev-python/platformdirs/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/platformdirs/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 DIST platformdirs-4.9.4.tar.gz 28737 BLAKE2B a71ac9b3b3b2a9a02e3cf8b20cc91740da278f6581753a360600c6c2ee6c887872f08bea324ea4334337d1ccf4bdf83fc7a2b14895dc72d6421598f9234dd17b SHA512 32108f239e76693f63789dd975463a44cbd4cc06f96a86a01d3d7fc675cb953a0d6818fb8fc92daef7f1ceba8bc62f2577d092d0e58c6c616740699a2140a0d7
 DIST platformdirs-4.9.4.tar.gz.provenance 9698 BLAKE2B dc9bcf69c9bd816e61ff77096aa90f1abcabd6abad3d037d1bdf5efc354f02f53cb05b5779d874f4d9b3997172969f21777ac204050cd662dda3d8feb3ea006c SHA512 1321d072852a555f54721a6e3241aa808da665848afb3f91ca3bd47d8231dc21b85b566bd1064c5a92324aecfecc599a035ced9a8cdfff766ba53af44142d2b4
+DIST platformdirs-4.9.6.tar.gz 29400 BLAKE2B 8b41e158994241e6aa9338e239afb4d4788b4c710e978f160b35768d53cfdf18379f64beec70d661d9574a833dc0bb41aedd4964f392ce67880e8cc97e917757 SHA512 90030693cbe91f05702902787ac35c61aa4818189dbb5742f1d662b501584bd63d9b978367d826b58ca30d42e8479db86b479a0a6549c66a10a6409b96329ff5
+DIST platformdirs-4.9.6.tar.gz.provenance 9611 BLAKE2B c5dd3f37a1a5e19b4c4589f72df520138ae9701e88ef65ebf1035296cfc2d652de0bc99e3f7063dfe08ee7a6a282a73ad5bb91b68fe2233803facf2aa266dbb1 SHA512 7ee87d1e8643f83801d1662df7f9de33bbe8948f14472d9ea3cbf6e33ae1cbc101b1f7e0073dac7c0ff3408234f4825186cbe862cb221299a65ada7bb6a4f334
diff --git a/dev-python/platformdirs/platformdirs-4.9.6.ebuild b/dev-python/platformdirs/platformdirs-4.9.6.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..559e2ecad5141
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/platformdirs/platformdirs-4.9.6.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# Copyright 2021-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=flit
+PYPI_VERIFY_REPO=https://github.com/tox-dev/platformdirs
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..14} python3_{13,14}t pypy3_11 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 pypi
+
+DESCRIPTION="A small Python module for determining appropriate platform-specific dirs"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://pypi.org/project/platformdirs/
+	https://github.com/tox-dev/platformdirs/
+"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~arm64-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		dev-python/appdirs[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+EPYTEST_PLUGINS=( pytest-mock )
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+src_configure() {
+	grep -q 'build-backend = "hatchling' pyproject.toml ||
+		die "Upstream changed build-backend, recheck"
+	# write a custom pyproject.toml to ease setuptools bootstrap
+	cat > pyproject.toml <<-EOF || die
+		[build-system]
+		requires = ["flit_core >=3.2,<4"]
+		build-backend = "flit_core.buildapi"
+
+		[project]
+		name = "${PN}"
+		version = "${PV}"
+		description = 'A small Python package for determining appropriate platform-specific dirs, e.g. a "user data dir".'
+	EOF
+	# sigh
+	cat > src/platformdirs/version.py <<-EOF || die
+		__version__ = version = '${PV}'
+		__version_tuple__ = version_tuple = (${PV//./, })
+	EOF
+}