diff --git a/app-arch/mt-st/Manifest b/app-arch/mt-st/Manifest
index de879423f30ce..62a00c9bc9420 100644
--- a/app-arch/mt-st/Manifest
+++ b/app-arch/mt-st/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST mt-st-1.7.tar.gz 39932 BLAKE2B 4083160035972cef89ba18a990c274730241819904cd08f88cbca7fd777a43d9d5fc551fb6de2b5b935818bf32d67eb00dd0002e3a67a82b28a79c17d2c7d369 SHA512 a274d098d8d028d0b32f38104645b628fad549708cc8ff87eb4155ed6270549bdf162a9ccdad468696f35ebe3f86b8923490bb969e7c22b4f827d65b87c5c3cb
+DIST mt-st-1.8.tar.gz 40890 BLAKE2B 1269281bac7ef4bdc55203d70cfb36e4a2d5a519b7bc7f97e901f5e207aa64418f51ae964d825b89b42e084f599965eb198cc8ae4e015d52859dfde961b743f6 SHA512 b23470de67e498cbfac093e1f0aaf91a7a2a898087403c8c83e18b430d54555db7b4fb42220cb3c78aacc62b9c29e004e19efaab4de0bc0827c62461f34791b4
diff --git a/app-arch/mt-st/mt-st-1.8.ebuild b/app-arch/mt-st/mt-st-1.8.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..a1526dbe4f5a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-arch/mt-st/mt-st-1.8.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit bash-completion-r1 toolchain-funcs
+
+DESCRIPTION="Control magnetic tape drive operation"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/iustin/mt-st"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/iustin/mt-st/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86"
+IUSE="test"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+BDEPEND="
+	test? ( dev-util/shelltestrunner )
+"
+
+src_configure() {
+	tc-export CC
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	dosbin mt stinit
+	doman mt.1 stinit.8
+	dodoc README* stinit.def.examples
+	newbashcomp mt-st.bash_completion mt
+}