diff --git a/dev-python/pyzmq/Manifest b/dev-python/pyzmq/Manifest
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--- a/dev-python/pyzmq/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/pyzmq/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST pyzmq-26.2.1.gh.tar.gz 279826 BLAKE2B 72ad282e8fd93f8ea9e3f709d748fd89a2a93e4af0f69d807b78654617195fb9b99646084747c617d1648c7ce0da55d01f2cd283eafa86e834df0a97ad578a7f SHA512 d68f8769ebb57e54eb405f9e8a6dda0cef8be912288c1cc9addaf6cd952f1b95029049f8c9300d05abb592b234fdb147f29e4430f1624132bda868b8a3ec8a20
+DIST pyzmq-26.3.0.gh.tar.gz 278127 BLAKE2B baa30f3901a76786933df8ab676a759ea3bf6a863508ea76c66e53e844c8bbb8a445a2b01ac65163af043ca81cc097db6edf3d6e95d92d9f1c134fd29160e403 SHA512 463124f0788b2370de1f3b14fcaeebca29f81f96bf5dbc959c6aef77710ccd5dbf5a68aa436ab3915c18c46367ba2034b5320f49bf9cda2a4c13b528adad212e
diff --git a/dev-python/pyzmq/pyzmq-26.3.0.ebuild b/dev-python/pyzmq/pyzmq-26.3.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_EXT=1
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=scikit-build-core
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( pypy3 pypy3_11 python3_{10..13} )
+PYTHON_REQ_USE="threads(+)"
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Lightweight and super-fast messaging library built on top of the ZeroMQ library"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://zeromq.org/languages/python/
+	https://pypi.org/project/pyzmq/
+	https://github.com/zeromq/pyzmq/
+"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/zeromq/pyzmq/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz
+		-> ${P}.gh.tar.gz
+"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~arm64-macos ~x64-macos"
+IUSE="drafts"
+
+# There are additional test failures if zeromq has the draft api enabled, but pyzmq has it disabled.
+DEPEND="
+	>=net-libs/zeromq-4.2.2-r2:=[drafts=]
+"
+# It uses cffi backend for pypy, cython backend for cpython
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-python/packaging[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		>=dev-python/cython-3.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	' 'python*')
+	test? (
+		dev-python/pytest-asyncio[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest-rerunfailures[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/tornado-5.0.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+# TODO: Package enum_tools
+# distutils_enable_sphinx docs/source \
+# 	dev-python/numpydoc \
+# 	dev-python/sphinx-rtd-theme \
+# 	dev-python/myst-parser
+
+src_configure() {
+	DISTUTILS_ARGS=(
+		-DZMQ_DRAFT_API="$(usex drafts)"
+		-DPYZMQ_NO_BUNDLE=ON
+		# unnecessarily adds /usr/lib* to rpath
+		-DPYZMQ_LIBZMQ_RPATH=OFF
+	)
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	local EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
+		# often crashes zmq?
+		tests/test_log.py::TestPubLog
+	)
+	local EPYTEST_IGNORE=(
+		# Avoid dependency on mypy
+		tests/test_mypy.py
+	)
+
+	case ${EPYTHON} in
+		pypy3*)
+			EPYTEST_DESELECT+=(
+				# not implemented in cffi variant?
+				tests/test_draft.py::TestDraftSockets
+			)
+	esac
+
+	local -x PYTEST_DISABLE_PLUGIN_AUTOLOAD=1
+	rm -rf zmq || die
+	# avoid large to reduce memory consumption
+	epytest -p asyncio -p rerunfailures tests -m "not large"
+}