diff --git a/dev-util/rbtools/Manifest b/dev-util/rbtools/Manifest
index d508f2d39112a..273958e5e908d 100644
--- a/dev-util/rbtools/Manifest
+++ b/dev-util/rbtools/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST rbtools-4.1.tar.gz 619541 BLAKE2B 9b1aeca4f139a0189affb873363dba8f6d13eb954d4872939c543f6d91c00b09b2452cc379d4d99450c05d3d44a1996e910ff512ba9849292a7b705ce01be654 SHA512 58aa58ce6c55d4d3be9f221c493c8a3c15537776ff4e28be1ea44c0441f1dd9877ac9145066fdceb90d392c75cf29ec80e7efd154b0a2f1893422b65a0189ea0
 DIST rbtools-5.0.tar.gz 649338 BLAKE2B c6a08004e7c8ba17936865e53b78e086ec74e8f5fee7ecc124750f3bf24b9b52ab8a26d1caa7010cdd2822463fcb27b8e5c5f757068924e22d3e59268166f7bf SHA512 7fbc5198fc89ee911a3cc487ead094d46213cfc4f85ab01cf22bd2a628559acdaaed138b430b08aa94ea25dec1179bf7c28349ac8226d632a6112ec83e2b57b7
+DIST rbtools-5.1.tar.gz 680096 BLAKE2B 784603864531a7be766a8cfa08a94756db98e02292cb2c98de7fd7f3876b24c7dd755755290041cde68e540d2f2f0fef23087d8a94359bd43aa03f1efc92ced7 SHA512 0cdba8c0842f21063bc2eea64b874c1db1769acd5bd8417e72196f78a6d15d2abdb9e3de66dd2dc1804ac3d41424d23c78052b2c34d8203cf2c66de90bd1c23b
diff --git a/dev-util/rbtools/rbtools-5.1.ebuild b/dev-util/rbtools/rbtools-5.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..cccc22da41474
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-util/rbtools/rbtools-5.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Command line tools for use with Review Board"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.reviewboard.org/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/reviewboard/rbtools/archive/refs/tags/release-${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/rbtools-release-${PV}"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/certifi-2023.5.7[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/colorama[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/housekeeping-1.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	=dev-python/housekeeping-1*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/packaging-21.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/puremagic[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	=dev-python/pydiffx-1.1*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/texttable[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/typing-extensions-4.3.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/tqdm[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/importlib-metadata-5.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		>=dev-python/kgb-6.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest-env[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-vcs/git
+		dev-vcs/mercurial
+	)
+"
+
+PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-5.0-importlib-resources.patch" )
+
+DOCS=( AUTHORS NEWS README.md )
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	# Avoid tests requiring unpackaged test data
+	rm -f rbtools/clients/tests/test_scanning.py || die
+
+	# Avoid repository specific tests to avoid dependencies on them
+	rm -f rbtools/clients/tests/test_{cvs,git,mercurial,svn}.py || die
+}