diff --git a/dev-haskell/text/Manifest b/dev-haskell/text/Manifest
index cbb47e7071960..706b709e0fd57 100644
--- a/dev-haskell/text/Manifest
+++ b/dev-haskell/text/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST text-1.2.5.0.tar.gz 155890 BLAKE2B aaf7206dad552ff98a465914ad8183ec1ccd57e56504496a5b8d11645b0f0fb395dd801c9b6fe32b51ed3902658eb5e5fb92187de668d32801597b4eb904b820 SHA512 dbda65180fc012324fe45467b63e0f53e7e0fa2da3b11875e458ba6bd31d0ee7634121967d2aa6853ed5c907c0661dcc59b8c68fb55edab2923490d8b50722d6
+DIST text-2.1.1.tar.gz 300910 BLAKE2B 7d9d2353be61d0ab7ffe2074096dcbcff4f2f9a9414fe0fa3343e17816ad3d3abffe2765813171f2260dc32c130ee41c06fdd3fa6232ac8fb2c4c307058dfa29 SHA512 8bda7826b95df2e4e45d035340ea2dac8c6b4aa2b738989e77070a973f681140885917085ec7836d358453a94b9144362982706f0dae053f2670e099de2c251f
diff --git a/dev-haskell/text/metadata.xml b/dev-haskell/text/metadata.xml
index 31b80dba2fcc2..d04d231c4b7c5 100644
--- a/dev-haskell/text/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-haskell/text/metadata.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 		<email>haskell@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Gentoo Haskell</name>
 	</maintainer>
+	<use>
+		<flag name="simdutf">use simdutf library</flag>
+	</use>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="hackage">text</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="github">haskell/text</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-haskell/text/text-2.1.1.ebuild b/dev-haskell/text/text-2.1.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..440f87187591d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-haskell/text/text-2.1.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+# ebuild generated by hackport 0.8.4.0.9999
+#hackport: flags: -bytestring-builder,-developer,-integer-simple
+
+CABAL_FEATURES="lib profile haddock hoogle hscolour" # circular deps in test-suite
+# break circular dependencies:
+# https://github.com/gentoo-haskell/gentoo-haskell/issues/810
+CABAL_FEATURES+=" nocabaldep"
+inherit haskell-cabal
+
+DESCRIPTION="An efficient packed Unicode text type"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/haskell/text"
+
+LICENSE="BSD-2"
+SLOT="0/${PV}"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64"
+IUSE="+simdutf"
+
+# break cyclic dependencies:
+RESTRICT=test
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-lang/ghc-9.4.1:=
+	simdutf? (
+		|| (
+			llvm-core/clang:*
+			sys-devel/gcc:*[cxx]
+		)
+	)
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+"
+#	test? (
+#		>=dev-haskell/quickcheck-2.12.6 <dev-haskell/quickcheck-2.15
+#		dev-haskell/tasty
+#		dev-haskell/tasty-hunit
+#		dev-haskell/tasty-inspection-testing
+#		dev-haskell/tasty-quickcheck
+#	)
+
+src_configure() {
+	haskell-cabal_src_configure \
+		--flag=-bytestring-builder \
+		--flag=-developer \
+		--flag=-integer-simple \
+		$(cabal_flag simdutf simdutf)
+}
+
+CABAL_CORE_LIB_GHC_PV="9.8.2 9.8.3 9.8.4 9.10.1"