diff --git a/dev-python/uv/Manifest b/dev-python/uv/Manifest
index dddd5b234ebcf..8eb4c697ed56e 100644
--- a/dev-python/uv/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/uv/Manifest
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diff --git a/dev-python/uv/uv-0.12.13.ebuild b/dev-python/uv/uv-0.12.13.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9826f90459414
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/uv/uv-0.12.13.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+# Copyright 2024-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+CRATES="
+"
+RUST_MIN_VER="1.96.0"
+
+inherit cargo check-reqs
+
+CRATE_PV=${PV}
+DESCRIPTION="A Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/
+	https://pypi.org/project/uv/
+"
+# pypi sdist misses scripts/, needed for tests
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/archive/${PV}.tar.gz
+		-> ${P}.gh.tar.gz
+	${CARGO_CRATE_URIS}
+"
+if [[ ${PKGBUMPING} != ${PVR} ]]; then
+	SRC_URI+="
+		https://github.com/gentoo-crate-dist/uv/releases/download/${CRATE_PV}/uv-${CRATE_PV}-crates.tar.xz
+	"
+fi
+
+# most of the code
+LICENSE="|| ( Apache-2.0 MIT )"
+# crates/pep508-rs is || ( Apache-2.0 BSD-2 ) which is covered below
+# Dependent crate licenses
+LICENSE+="
+	0BSD Apache-2.0 Apache-2.0-with-LLVM-exceptions BSD-2 BSD CC0-1.0
+	CDLA-Permissive-2.0 ISC MIT MIT-0 MPL-2.0 Unicode-3.0
+	Unicode-DFS-2016 ZLIB
+"
+# ring crate
+LICENSE+=" openssl"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~loong ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~x86"
+IUSE="test"
+RESTRICT="test"
+PROPERTIES="test_network"
+
+DEPEND="
+	app-arch/bzip2:=
+	app-arch/xz-utils:=
+	app-arch/zstd:=
+"
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+	test? (
+		dev-lang/python:3.9
+		dev-lang/python:3.10
+		dev-lang/python:3.11
+		dev-lang/python:3.12
+		dev-lang/python:3.13
+		!!~dev-python/uv-0.5.0
+	)
+"
+
+QA_FLAGS_IGNORED="usr/bin/.*"
+
+check_space() {
+	local CHECKREQS_DISK_BUILD=3G
+	use debug && CHECKREQS_DISK_BUILD=9G
+	check-reqs_pkg_setup
+}
+
+pkg_pretend() {
+	check_space
+}
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	check_space
+	rust_pkg_setup
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	# force thin lto, makes build much faster and less memory hungry
+	# (i.e. makes it possible to actually build uv on 32-bit PPC)
+	sed -i -e '/lto/s:fat:thin:' Cargo.toml || die
+
+	# enable system libraries where supported
+	export ZSTD_SYS_USE_PKG_CONFIG=1
+	# TODO: unbundle tikv-jemalloc-sys?
+
+	# remove unbundled sources, just in case
+	find "${ECARGO_VENDOR}"/zstd-sys-*/ -name '*.c' -delete || die
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	local myfeatures=(
+		test-git
+		test-pypi
+		test-python
+	)
+
+	cargo_src_configure --no-default-features
+	# otherwise, rustc/llvm runs out of address space
+	use arm && export RUSTFLAGS="${RUSTFLAGS} -Copt-level=0"
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	cd crates/uv || die
+	cargo_src_compile
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	cd crates/uv || die
+	cargo_src_test --no-fail-fast
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	dobin "$(cargo_target_dir)"/{uv,uvx}
+
+	insinto /etc/xdg/uv
+	newins - uv.toml <<-EOF || die
+		# These defaults match Fedora, see:
+		# https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/uv/pull-request/18
+
+		# By default ("automatic"), uv downloads missing Python versions
+		# automatically and keeps them in the user's home directory.
+		# Disable that to make downloading opt-in, and especially
+		# to avoid unnecessarily fetching custom Python when the distro
+		# package would be preferable.  Python builds can still be
+		# downloaded manually via "uv python install".
+		#
+		# https://docs.astral.sh/uv/reference/settings/#python-downloads
+		python-downloads = "manual"
+
+		# By default ("managed"), uv always prefers self-installed
+		# Python versions over the system Python, independently
+		# of versions.  Since we generally expect users to use that
+		# to install old Python versions not in ::gentoo anymore,
+		# this effectively means that uv would end up preferring very
+		# old Python versions over the newer ones that are provided
+		# by the system.  Default to using the system versions to avoid
+		# this counter-intuitive behavior.
+		#
+		# https://docs.astral.sh/uv/reference/settings/#python-preference
+		python-preference = "system"
+	EOF
+}