diff --git a/app-emacs/apel/Manifest b/app-emacs/apel/Manifest
index 89929094d3515..95e0bfa8e94a3 100644
--- a/app-emacs/apel/Manifest
+++ b/app-emacs/apel/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST apel-10.8_p20220721.tar.gz 69181 BLAKE2B b7c36d4bec2f1a544cbf2e15c5ceb8968912e63dc7c4d68cf14d3f0a2646d7031c1595f8dd3f1e7622f8816a1c1b934b0987275ca4e05bcc3c770443f5db88ad SHA512 4d384cbc7989e1d1db4e4b735474d610e241ec4f551bcde73fa3a9771d1d1094f489bd5de328a9b5b66468bd64b52b3220a261735a646b4ea8818a29b3837be5
+DIST apel-10.8_p20250531.tar.gz 69826 BLAKE2B 209118490e8ce92b3429fc3424704ee9ab5ad16258bf0adfbf1221dde18d0d14b946f746690fc35f5fe84ec20e250037849ea8ded60120573062095f403e69b0 SHA512 76b01d6e41ad345a96c93d1526a499080546e8f839b7a697895b61a754cf9aa49b995d55909d47c8a957cefe9d3e5f49802390d5c81d168d9d458e86bf003e21
diff --git a/app-emacs/apel/apel-10.8_p20250531.ebuild b/app-emacs/apel/apel-10.8_p20250531.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..1d4179ac79437
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-emacs/apel/apel-10.8_p20250531.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=9
+
+inherit elisp
+
+DESCRIPTION="A Portable Emacs Library is a library for making portable Emacs Lisp programs"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/wanderlust/apel"
+GITHUB_SHA1="2383abfd3a27c094ae9095b05103167cf810379b"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/wanderlust/${PN}/archive/${GITHUB_SHA1}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${GITHUB_SHA1}"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86"
+
+SITEFILE="50apel-gentoo.el"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	elisp_src_prepare
+	cat <<-EOF >>APEL-CFG || die
+	(setq APEL_PREFIX "apel")
+	(setq EMU_PREFIX "apel")
+	EOF
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	default
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake PREFIX="${ED}/usr" \
+		LISPDIR="${ED}/${SITELISP}" \
+		VERSION_SPECIFIC_LISPDIR="${ED}/${SITELISP}" \
+		install
+	elisp-make-site-file "${SITEFILE}"
+	dodoc ChangeLog* README*
+}