diff --git a/x11-terms/kitty-terminfo/Manifest b/x11-terms/kitty-terminfo/Manifest
index aa015218a57c8..da2346c3bf8c5 100644
--- a/x11-terms/kitty-terminfo/Manifest
+++ b/x11-terms/kitty-terminfo/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST kitty-0.47.4.tar.xz 11886344 BLAKE2B ff39cd66a222e8a7c51ff4d5d127b291ac32192d940e587915763af2a24273f7ae2d2c471cf077d0bd0a9742353cfab16b3fe085dd4afcf94051201059daac49 SHA512 a6832836c305a2407a6f9622b5ded4cf3ad97fdb118a14a1986c68d58a14a4910ef7078ed2fc0fe21a18a3aba082b8a901d8dd57e46724fed8dbd70608d1f832
 DIST kitty-0.48.0.tar.xz 11745084 BLAKE2B ed65189c0c88514419f5f9f84c41e74b288d260c5d3ca270442fcd7c3c4b3b7f999fdff12069258edeeaec7b985d2629f1156d0bca0fb3f0ad3b15ffb037862b SHA512 ca29416ca9f9fd2a3940a4b4865285a1247cceb8ca7c2e116b4d9f4ff4b468a628ca9c033afecef191e6a7167335427280f8ebdb32c4d044d1581d202ef02557
+DIST kitty-0.48.1.tar.xz 11747820 BLAKE2B 4067d6385e65fafa2ec472129cc5936602f3ad4a3f1a7ee05b33f055a3bf7a55bbc9660e0c71c60b0d465df6da9eae1f3fe5b3a0480cb90393706d72cf2b67a0 SHA512 e8583db669aea92a13a27ff1809ec58ffc0cf143709a9f6959307418b24287fe2406ac1920bf1b034e01f50dc09821e0e72a72fec83c5f7a773a03239a47e57a
diff --git a/x11-terms/kitty-terminfo/kitty-terminfo-0.48.1.ebuild b/x11-terms/kitty-terminfo/kitty-terminfo-0.48.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..193583584d529
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x11-terms/kitty-terminfo/kitty-terminfo-0.48.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty.git"
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/releases/download/v${PV}/kitty-${PV}.tar.xz"
+	S=${WORKDIR}/kitty-${PV}
+	KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86"
+fi
+
+DESCRIPTION="Terminfo for kitty, a GPU-based terminal emulator"
+HOMEPAGE="https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+RESTRICT="test" # intended to be ran on the full kitty package
+
+BDEPEND="sys-libs/ncurses"
+
+src_compile() { :; }
+
+src_install() {
+	dodir /usr/share/terminfo
+	tic -xo "${ED}"/usr/share/terminfo terminfo/kitty.terminfo || die
+}