diff --git a/media-libs/libpng/Manifest b/media-libs/libpng/Manifest
index a9e8f478bf42..08c93318b296 100644
--- a/media-libs/libpng/Manifest
+++ b/media-libs/libpng/Manifest
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ DIST libpng-1.6.50.tar.xz 1060992 BLAKE2B 2191536b4448d3a058b9dbb31f3d780959c9da
 DIST libpng-1.6.51-libpng-apng-apng.patch.gz 10686 BLAKE2B 71cab27854831c640de6d2d3dc3c1e38cb104ee5fe7012cce5662c4362b2289b3e3a0f623eb3335c025efa12ce81dd3da698f5cc6862a20e7439445bb4153a51 SHA512 746f74058d51d9f042479f296cdbd77b40ddb4cf1f8a94f6e1ca08b453f42bbda780689975f7607d54b8a0cd86f72e7a2804259b3afa1ddc1342e987bed5814d
 DIST libpng-1.6.51.tar.xz 1060772 BLAKE2B 2d1ee36f9796e90a533abf26597df82c39cfab42f8d4044d35e0fdbab65612b9fc0234780677e2ea758450db9815b9d30870e8024bcebc0170c87361b7c4cc0a SHA512 c723406f050f99783b2576e7e2c84774630a7f46bb8ea82bf4932f82bbb4899f47cb1b19ff9020245a474a0b2fee82c55ac1c58db43e3888ad5cc3a1767e7433
 DIST libpng-1.6.52.tar.xz 1063580 BLAKE2B 47732b5e1a9d35e6aa2b7d1b967842588410154ada06af9d9c3fafaaf2440f1b70a1c9d4c0329b29b401f182ac4cc1fe88dc312e8a17e82aafd4ca954910221b SHA512 2bb1318f36712fc007613373a44a3276b4ed129b51b908464d9577ea9704d3caa469ec5bc7ebfb8b1de57ba3998c0b3375cd105054011ec54c21e9f208ec3c8b
+DIST libpng-1.6.53.tar.xz 1063432 BLAKE2B 62e28068e1885305828fff3296b19a7d61e11a52ca425be91289e17087be2c42f06ea2df000169632cc556b398cdcb4784a639879e038962310c53becae779f6 SHA512 569f81d57dcce7bb874a45fa9f8db2044585245d2eb0c0485a1b03c2e338ecaec6bfda3cb94ad2a34951997414c69fc0373c8c5852d6c313c03e8a946ff345c6
diff --git a/media-libs/libpng/libpng-1.6.53.ebuild b/media-libs/libpng/libpng-1.6.53.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6834feb2f4a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media-libs/libpng/libpng-1.6.53.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit dot-a libtool multilib-minimal
+
+APNG_REPO=libpng-apng # sometimes libpng-apng is more up to date
+APNG_VERSION="1.6.51"
+DESCRIPTION="Portable Network Graphics library"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.libpng.org/"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://downloads.sourceforge.net/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz
+	apng? (
+		https://downloads.sourceforge.net/${APNG_REPO}/${PN}$(ver_rs 1-2 '' $(ver_cut 1-2 ${APNG_VERSION}))/${PV}/${PN}-${APNG_VERSION}-apng.patch.gz -> ${PN}-${APNG_VERSION}-${APNG_REPO}-apng.patch.gz
+		https://downloads.sourceforge.net/${APNG_REPO}/${PN}$(ver_rs 1-2 '' $(ver_cut 1-2 ${APNG_VERSION}))/${PN}-${APNG_VERSION}-apng.patch.gz -> ${PN}-${APNG_VERSION}-${APNG_REPO}-apng.patch.gz
+	)
+"
+
+LICENSE="libpng2"
+SLOT="0/16"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~arm64-macos ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+IUSE="apng cpu_flags_x86_sse static-libs test"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+RDEPEND=">=virtual/zlib-1.2.8-r1:=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]"
+DEPEND="
+	${RDEPEND}
+	riscv? ( sys-kernel/linux-headers )
+"
+
+DOCS=( ANNOUNCE CHANGES libpng-manual.txt README TODO )
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	if use apng; then
+		case ${APNG_REPO} in
+			apng)
+				eapply -p0 "${WORKDIR}"/${PN}-${APNG_VERSION}-${APNG_REPO}-apng.patch
+				;;
+			libpng-apng)
+				eapply "${WORKDIR}"/${PN}-${APNG_VERSION}-${APNG_REPO}-apng.patch
+				;;
+			*)
+				die "Unknown APNG_REPO!"
+				;;
+		esac
+
+		# Don't execute symbols check with apng patch, bug #378111
+		sed -i -e '/^check/s:scripts/symbols.chk::' Makefile.in || die
+	fi
+
+	elibtoolize
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	lto-guarantee-fat
+	multilib-minimal_src_configure
+}
+
+multilib_src_configure() {
+	local myeconfargs=(
+		$(multilib_native_enable tools)
+		$(use_enable test tests)
+		$(use_enable cpu_flags_x86_sse intel-sse)
+		$(use_enable static-libs static)
+	)
+
+	ECONF_SOURCE="${S}" econf "${myeconfargs[@]}"
+}
+
+multilib_src_install_all() {
+	default
+
+	strip-lto-bytecode
+	find "${ED}" \( -type f -o -type l \) -name '*.la' -delete || die
+}