diff --git a/net-news/rssguard/metadata.xml b/net-news/rssguard/metadata.xml
index 6b791c6bfc85a..fc638763b8860 100644
--- a/net-news/rssguard/metadata.xml
+++ b/net-news/rssguard/metadata.xml
@@ -14,10 +14,24 @@
 		<bugs-to>https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/issues</bugs-to>
 	</upstream>
 	<use>
-		<flag name="icu">Enable text encoding conversion via <pkg>dev-libs/icu</pkg></flag>
-		<flag name="libmpv">Enable media player support via libmpv from <pkg>media-video/mpv</pkg></flag>
-		<flag name="qtmultimedia">Enable media player support via <pkg>dev-qt/qtmultimedia</pkg></flag>
-		<flag name="webengine">Use <pkg>dev-qt/qtwebengine</pkg> for embedded web browser</flag>
+		<flag name="icu">
+			Enable text encoding conversion via <pkg>dev-libs/icu</pkg>
+		</flag>
+		<flag name="libmpv">
+			Enable media player support via libmpv
+			from <pkg>media-video/mpv</pkg>
+		</flag>
+		<flag name="qtmultimedia">
+			Enable media player support via <pkg>dev-qt/qtmultimedia</pkg>
+		</flag>
+		<flag name="webengine">
+			Use <pkg>dev-qt/qtwebengine</pkg> for embedded web browser
+		</flag>
+		<flag name="xmpp">
+			Enable support for XMPP PubSub protocol for real-time ATOM
+			entries (and real-time messages from single-user
+			or multi-user chats)
+		</flag>
 	</use>
 	<longdescription>
 		RSS Guard is simple (yet powerful) feed reader. It is able to fetch the
diff --git a/net-news/rssguard/rssguard-5.1.1.ebuild b/net-news/rssguard/rssguard-5.1.1.ebuild
index a71a578aafab2..86d3a2cb1442d 100644
--- a/net-news/rssguard/rssguard-5.1.1.ebuild
+++ b/net-news/rssguard/rssguard-5.1.1.ebuild
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ SRC_URI="
 LICENSE="|| ( LGPL-3 GPL-2+ ) AGPL-3+ BSD GPL-3+ MIT"
 SLOT="0/101"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-IUSE="icu libmpv mysql qtmultimedia +sqlite webengine"
+IUSE="icu libmpv mysql qtmultimedia +sqlite webengine xmpp"
 REQUIRED_USE="
 	|| ( mysql sqlite )
 	?? ( libmpv qtmultimedia )
@@ -41,9 +41,8 @@ DEPEND="
 		dev-qt/qtmultimedia:6
 	)
 	webengine? ( dev-qt/qtwebengine:6 )
+	xmpp? ( >=net-libs/qxmpp-1.15.1:= )
 "
-# xmpp support pending qxmpp bump: https://bugs.gentoo.org/973427
-#	xmpp? ( net-libs/qxmpp:= )
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 
 # go
@@ -71,7 +70,7 @@ src_configure() {
 		-DENABLE_MEDIAPLAYER_QTMULTIMEDIA=$(usex qtmultimedia)
 		-DENABLE_MEDIAPLAYER_LIBMPV=$(usex libmpv)
 		-DUSE_SYSTEM_QXMPP=ON
-#		-DBUILD_XMPP_PLUGIN=$(usex xmpp)
+		-DBUILD_XMPP_PLUGIN=$(usex xmpp)
 		-DWEB_ARTICLE_VIEWER_WEBENGINE=$(usex webengine)
 		# recommended
 		-DMEDIAPLAYER_FORCE_OPENGL=ON