diff --git a/dev-python/django/Manifest b/dev-python/django/Manifest
index a64a8d232d812..fa19778180df2 100644
--- a/dev-python/django/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/django/Manifest
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ DIST Django-1.11.14.tar.gz 7850578 BLAKE2B b858ab51d40812979ec04cffc459ce137a5f5
 DIST Django-1.11.15.tar.gz 7843843 BLAKE2B b7713de8136302d8d95929ed449ab01173e28c0d5d20529eaae9d6bd6d323f53b674a4fb6e8398da4b57a223f10ef63e7961accc8fd777313f18b4e2b0f225ed SHA512 4ea18c59f7c74d0b6deb9d292d5de068c6dcc53d9596f321f5a7e823ff5fe423cc8d69c88bf53e3acd9c36c4ecc4447148243a127d5114a4894b0fd4d449f37e
 DIST Django-1.8.19.tar.gz 7359244 BLAKE2B 1c7b857f864527cf5b9cac8e08599e1f4f3306a828bcc253e0e59755da6d464592e627eb3743687b0410d308b3d089359dd79af0146b02e6db7f5eca43f04401 SHA512 cec71f4a1aaa3fcfc43a035e9fcd8d6fabde7aade43491f9205942cbeb251ae394e49ec6b5b2403b74c24b069064d44ae6070b151c0c949b940f2d46aa87774e
 DIST Django-2.0.8.tar.gz 7987343 BLAKE2B ab35f50ce1911cb9603c7ac85e7ab01e6019ce9a2dac4cd733b11f35722368946ff3a130c3c791da4d49cf609b5747b4c5de64e29e27a8e12abb7f9e29cd363b SHA512 ac3cc3f58cb977518c6f549834beb35677c2d5541cfb5723045b98165926e826178cb33737c52a0f999be24bc38b84dde489a5f91d1c8d51b8338aa611acb518
+DIST Django-2.1.tar.gz 8583964 BLAKE2B 92a48bbdd45fa94c7b43961bf22bd5521019bf0c9f37f6685c8916d9d1886b77522fb58d7db27989a713445b51e15858161e5b99e636cdadc23860d2d0a8ef56 SHA512 1c75f0ad8ef353fb38d245034f108df5554cc27073f44ef920576b5dba3d2dd685d8905c0bde1701d43cb01b4c9dbb2bfa7c38c57fae3208af5be616d26d39cb
diff --git a/dev-python/django/django-2.1.ebuild b/dev-python/django/django-2.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..87201aa293d8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/django/django-2.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{5,6,7} )
+PYTHON_REQ_USE='sqlite?,threads(+)'
+
+inherit bash-completion-r1 distutils-r1 eutils
+
+MY_PN="Django"
+MY_P="${MY_PN}-${PV}"
+
+DESCRIPTION="High-level Python web framework"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.djangoproject.com/ https://pypi.org/project/Django/"
+SRC_URI="https://www.djangoproject.com/m/releases/$(ver_cut 1-2)/${MY_P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+# admin fonts: Roboto (media-fonts/roboto)
+LICENSE+=" Apache-2.0"
+# admin icons, jquery, xregexp.js
+LICENSE+=" MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos"
+IUSE="doc sqlite test"
+
+RDEPEND="dev-python/pytz[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	doc? ( >=dev-python/sphinx-1.0.7[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	test? (
+		$(python_gen_impl_dep sqlite)
+		dev-python/docutils[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pillow[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pyyaml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-2.0.7-bashcomp.patch
+)
+
+python_prepare_all() {
+	# Prevent d'loading in the doc build
+	sed -e '/^    "sphinx.ext.intersphinx",/d' -i docs/conf.py || die
+
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+}
+
+python_compile_all() {
+	use doc && emake -C docs html
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	# Tests have non-standard assumptions about PYTHONPATH,
+	# and don't work with ${BUILD_DIR}/lib.
+	PYTHONPATH=. "${PYTHON}" tests/runtests.py --settings=test_sqlite -v2 \
+		|| die "Tests fail with ${EPYTHON}"
+}
+
+python_install_all() {
+	newbashcomp extras/django_bash_completion ${PN}-admin
+	bashcomp_alias ${PN}-admin django-admin.py
+
+	if use doc; then
+		rm -fr docs/_build/html/_sources || die
+		local HTML_DOCS=( docs/_build/html/. )
+	fi
+
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	elog "Additional Backend support can be enabled via"
+	optfeature "MySQL backend support" dev-python/mysqlclient
+	optfeature "PostgreSQL backend support" dev-python/psycopg:2
+	echo ""
+	elog "Other features can be enhanced by"
+	optfeature "GEO Django" sci-libs/gdal[geos]
+	optfeature "Memcached support" dev-python/pylibmc dev-python/python-memcached
+	optfeature "ImageField Support" dev-python/pillow
+	optfeature "Password encryption" dev-python/bcrypt
+	optfeature "High-level abstractions for Django forms" dev-python/django-formtools
+}