diff --git a/dev-python/black/black-21.12_beta0-r1.ebuild b/dev-python/black/black-21.12_beta0-r1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..240e641699268
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/black/black-21.12_beta0-r1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+# Copyright 2020-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+inherit distutils-r1 optfeature
+
+MY_PV="${PV//_beta/b}"
+MY_P="${PN}-${MY_PV}"
+
+DESCRIPTION="The uncompromising Python code formatter"
+HOMEPAGE="https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ https://github.com/psf/black"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/psf/${PN}/archive/${MY_PV}.tar.gz -> ${MY_P}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc ~x86 ~x64-macos"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/click-8.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/mypy_extensions-0.4.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/platformdirs-2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	<dev-python/pathspec-1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	<dev-python/tomli-3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		dev-python/typing-extensions[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	' python3_{8,9})
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-python/setuptools_scm[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/toml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		>=dev-python/aiohttp-3.7.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/aiohttp-cors[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/colorama[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/parameterized[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+PATCHES=(
+	# Merged in master
+	"${FILESDIR}/${P}-support-tomli-2.patch"
+)
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+export SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION=${MY_PV}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	# remove unnecessary bind that worked around broken 6.1.0/6.2.0 releases
+	sed -i -e '/setuptools_scm/s:~=:>=:' \
+		-e 's/setuptools_scm\[toml\]>=[0-9.]*/setuptools_scm[toml]/' setup.cfg || die
+	distutils-r1_src_prepare
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	cp "${S}"/src/black_primer/primer.json \
+		"${BUILD_DIR}"/lib/black_primer/primer.json || die
+	distutils_install_for_testing
+	epytest -m "not python2"
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	optfeature "blackd - HTTP API for black" "dev-python/aiohttp dev-python/aiohttp-cors"
+}
diff --git a/dev-python/black/files/black-21.12_beta0-support-tomli-2.patch b/dev-python/black/files/black-21.12_beta0-support-tomli-2.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..5374dc6e82a94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/black/files/black-21.12_beta0-support-tomli-2.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+From 389e9c23a9e622ee6090d902cc5f56c5f76cdee9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Taneli Hukkinen <3275109+hukkin@users.noreply.github.com>
+Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 18:03:07 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Disable universal newlines when reading TOML (#2408)
+
+--- a/Pipfile
++++ b/Pipfile
+@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ platformdirs= ">=2"
+ click = ">=8.0.0"
+ mypy_extensions = ">=0.4.3"
+ pathspec = ">=0.8.1"
+-tomli = ">=0.2.6, <2.0.0"
++tomli = ">=1.1.0, <3.0.0"
+ typed-ast = "==1.4.3"
+ typing_extensions = {markers = "python_version < '3.10'", version = ">=3.10.0.0"}
+ black = {editable = true,extras = ["d"],path = "."}
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ def find_python_files(base: Path) -> List[Path]:
+     install_requires=[
+         "click>=7.1.2",
+         "platformdirs>=2",
+-        "tomli>=0.2.6,<2.0.0",
++        "tomli>=1.1.0,<3.0.0",
+         "typed-ast>=1.4.2; python_version < '3.8' and implementation_name == 'cpython'",
+         "pathspec>=0.9.0, <1",
+         "dataclasses>=0.6; python_version < '3.7'",
+--- a/src/black/files.py
++++ b/src/black/files.py
+@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ def parse_pyproject_toml(path_config: str) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+ 
+     If parsing fails, will raise a tomli.TOMLDecodeError
+     """
+-    with open(path_config, encoding="utf8") as f:
+-        pyproject_toml = tomli.loads(f.read())
++    with open(path_config, "rb") as f:
++        pyproject_toml = tomli.load(f)
+     config = pyproject_toml.get("tool", {}).get("black", {})
+     return {k.replace("--", "").replace("-", "_"): v for k, v in config.items()}
+