diff --git a/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/Manifest b/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/Manifest
index a53b0df6bd9e9..8435c3b2a90b9 100644
--- a/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/Manifest
+++ b/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 DIST kdoctools-5.116.0.tar.xz 465400 BLAKE2B cc4292a871272b72ec1fc4c4d96e9d6ed796c8959198f3c19448527fb01b03a6e539232989adcd46296a9b589bbcaeb2b29bbe14a2e3a0aec2bc4499533b53cf SHA512 06a9d79f5e449ae606f6c5dba20038ad60202c908bb0f7f1dbc8bb3a955db5b6b34e4caa453a7b562d744f30faa62574425d78552b497227d4b5ca8eac3adaab
 DIST kdoctools-6.10.0.tar.xz 458740 BLAKE2B f056d0d3a47a94166a1803fd0ea5f04ecf2453baee551658f05c2153cefb158e956ceca67c890893ab9337224721d780b3793c7c843da7f4a6911d0d4690c93f SHA512 952a095bee0a189549ddd89b37c0b22b28d1e64a5408a02e97e3465a33dddd706e7423721147f4833329ea8f60c643fd4fee5ee57209e89950ea44e2044f3486
 DIST kdoctools-6.11.0.tar.xz 458744 BLAKE2B fa3deb29bbc642051996c31b6667328a40041298f3333b88945bd0e711242f7608be8e90fdcfc550f274ff8007e87d18a4ff50bb7f42a45f1f6e4acf52417d3d SHA512 8325e861719cf35303c84b930a3a2bca4ceb452945ee2c49ddf8dd9145a52b1112dbae806f63a7560704d3130534303e8b7a4db9739952ac68be57f91c859980
+DIST kdoctools-6.12.0.tar.xz 458836 BLAKE2B 1b11d429d1660bdc420994520305a5ecef60b86ed3253df69374c6a0a4c08be2e28aaa2782107a1de853abd11f2b814062b6156e49e7714dfada9028b025c5e0 SHA512 6280366c647c7c27717ab4cc8e24780c97a00be7378468c52995a689844295a34b96a6b0d28203f0f227eaa9c0b43af79fa4edb15a54d270cdb8afae1a361c52
diff --git a/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/kdoctools-6.12.0.ebuild b/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/kdoctools-6.12.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..41f752022d792
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/kdoctools-6.12.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+ECM_QTHELP="false"
+inherit ecm frameworks.kde.org
+
+DESCRIPTION="Tools to generate documentation in various formats from DocBook files"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
+IUSE="nls"
+
+DEPEND="
+	app-text/docbook-xml-dtd:4.5
+	app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets
+	app-text/sgml-common
+	dev-libs/libxml2:2
+	dev-libs/libxslt
+	=kde-frameworks/karchive-${KDE_CATV}*:6
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-lang/perl
+	dev-perl/URI
+	nls? ( >=kde-frameworks/ki18n-${KDE_CATV}:6 )
+"
+
+CMAKE_SKIP_TESTS=(
+	# bug 665622
+	kdoctools_install
+)
+
+PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-5.54.0-gentoo-docbundledir.patch" )
+
+src_configure() {
+	local mycmakeargs=(
+		$(cmake_use_find_package nls KF6I18n)
+	)
+
+	ecm_src_configure
+}