diff --git a/dev-lang/fennel/Manifest b/dev-lang/fennel/Manifest
index 79a48c48fd054..ef21e6bfddb23 100644
--- a/dev-lang/fennel/Manifest
+++ b/dev-lang/fennel/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 DIST fennel-1.4.2.tar.gz 301195 BLAKE2B f5a124725b4d2573275f179090b0400ed07dcc50d6ae661dd588887b8774a2cb48ab9f720dfb7bc7049d1e353f430e75da48e9a08b716cc1a80e4e09bf269bc7 SHA512 13b6020314d010566c7521b85065a446e09f8a0cfec9b9cb4bc2e23fe59369d105538bcb8a3a7cd865c399742d98a1742da932f8bde993c1136422f803069071
 DIST fennel-1.5.0.tar.gz 304755 BLAKE2B f7e7661b48925a40194aa8feaf2baf3209fa50ed87ae6e1c9976484682fee91206643cb7361200ca7f30f55a89e4534f1dcdf0e4a6bf73e084229e86979c5490 SHA512 64403e187cf9fa8939784cfeb518d26e52aee4eac3533592021e5c45864a16f1e1f6a7fd95838110f38ec8478eec7f78b961b70fc79c89da5959de81230b1e22
 DIST fennel-1.5.1.tar.gz 306440 BLAKE2B c3c75d9ed5e0b01072e757389a7f242d04c6b1c89c8d97c24a9e17cfb2bb10bd8f28b5ddb28f3b5a37f7c7de49b8498caae96a2ff150f7293d5e7c46c49d89e9 SHA512 723f85d62ffc8fc2a958ba52ae491681274ed0b300352cf49067a3456b6f074e74e1540ae27ca102a3e7ccb47e32b3c4dbec6346ae2ede7282903246ef8c5b1d
+DIST fennel-1.5.3.srht.tar.gz 309957 BLAKE2B d08458a0a5431a3d3152a59aeef5790441e222b6834f514f8cda2d75a97437a09cc16d11d70b3d776f89245d507173907c9aed2e021e5b3b1277631e0d86b7d7 SHA512 96f36e130598a14f2644f2b31f2c3d4861d498a690ee3f9a8ff3b10af4c7cbbef8b6cab448479e65eb7b3653513e3e915c6cf167d52eccb1f94300edf4c2225a
diff --git a/dev-lang/fennel/fennel-1.5.3.ebuild b/dev-lang/fennel/fennel-1.5.3.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..41e1ba92efa3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lang/fennel/fennel-1.5.3.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+# Fails to build with "lua5-1".
+LUA_COMPAT=( lua5-{3,4} luajit )
+
+inherit lua-single
+
+DESCRIPTION="Lisp-like language that compiles to Lua"
+HOMEPAGE="https://fennel-lang.org/
+	https://sr.ht/~technomancy/fennel/"
+
+if [[ "${PV}" == *9999* ]] ; then
+	inherit git-r3
+
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/${PN}"
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/${PN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz
+		-> ${P}.srht.tar.gz"
+
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ppc ~x86"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0/${PV}"
+REQUIRED_USE="${LUA_REQUIRED_USE}"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	${LUA_DEPS}
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	${RDEPEND}
+"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	# Turn off failing tests. Bugs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/906351 https://bugs.gentoo.org/923281
+	sed -i test/init.lua \
+		-e 's|"test.failures",||'   \
+		-e 's|"test.repl",||'		\
+		-e 's|"test.macro",||'      \
+		|| die
+
+	# Uses network also fails either way.
+	echo "" > test/irc.lua || die
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	emake test
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake LUA_LIB_DIR="${ED}/$(lua_get_lmod_dir)" PREFIX="${ED}/usr" install
+
+	dodoc *.md
+}