diff --git a/kde-frameworks/karchive/Manifest b/kde-frameworks/karchive/Manifest
index 06af8e0ad1706..54248953c4d2b 100644
--- a/kde-frameworks/karchive/Manifest
+++ b/kde-frameworks/karchive/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST karchive-6.27.0.tar.xz 826864 BLAKE2B 0c63b38510233a25ca3b937ae5cec42aed06e4c88304bdb32acf1e60b041d488d0a4bd741538505a875257771dfa8a01f5d6a1254f4e06841b47a637a893077a SHA512 228a5c30a5dd145d8f925a3c0c14d4d839aeaec551f73f67d6959cb94f405be3c31b928749ffdd3b20ed2c82a486a5d40d7fd16f524ffa8756410252a3aaf1c2
+DIST karchive-6.28.0.tar.xz 826828 BLAKE2B 8cf74a699d1c8114eadca08b6fbbe22b4dc74f3bfddef9c92b680e64a3452938579f5a3b54c20f224b8655178d760914cd4c3f97fbda8bf6333b140529d9a9d9 SHA512 63790893d7fede6f56a5f696ec464227e746d974d83a884671a9d01d327cc2ac87da892e8a05bda4a89c8277bd09a2d2e9e870693ca2191063ce57646eee5cb3
diff --git a/kde-frameworks/karchive/karchive-6.28.0.ebuild b/kde-frameworks/karchive/karchive-6.28.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..31c8cbe58806c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kde-frameworks/karchive/karchive-6.28.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+QTMIN=6.10.1
+inherit ecm frameworks.kde.org
+
+DESCRIPTION="Framework for reading, creation, and manipulation of various archive formats"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2 LGPL-2.1"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~loong ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
+IUSE="crypt +zstd"
+
+DEPEND="
+	app-arch/bzip2
+	app-arch/xz-utils
+	virtual/zlib:=
+	crypt? ( dev-libs/openssl:= )
+	zstd? ( app-arch/zstd:= )
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="
+	>=dev-qt/qttools-${QTMIN}:6[linguist]
+	zstd? ( virtual/pkgconfig )
+"
+
+CMAKE_SKIP_TESTS=(
+	karchivetest # bug 948899
+	kfiltertest # bug 978879
+)
+
+src_prepare() {
+	ecm_src_prepare
+
+	# TODO: try to get a build switch upstreamed
+	if ! use zstd; then
+		sed -e "s/^pkg_check_modules.*LibZstd/#&/" -i CMakeLists.txt || die
+	fi
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	local mycmakeargs=(
+		-DWITH_OPENSSL=$(usex crypt)
+		-DWITH_LIBZSTD=$(usex zstd)
+	)
+	ecm_src_configure
+}