diff --git a/app-misc/asciinema/Manifest b/app-misc/asciinema/Manifest
index 7b40cc959427a..70242850aaa19 100644
--- a/app-misc/asciinema/Manifest
+++ b/app-misc/asciinema/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST asciinema-1.3.0.tar.gz 34214 SHA256 968016828119d53b8e4e6ccf40a2635704d236f8e805f635c15adc09a4373a55 SHA512 882f2f9c23c42d6930fc54797a87134004c1e679b2c054d29c71a9af616604f6e54aa1461b7f0f9826557c66dcf51470710d6e2886d785cbf28464ea2397d5d2 WHIRLPOOL 68a9a32b4067115cdece92a69f824a15ac42bfe1855701fb1e74cb7d138022f235a83c4a879453f87ac3757f1dc3c5036d596e4b7cea84cf8f8891b696b1a1fe
+DIST asciinema-1.4.0.tar.gz 35264 SHA256 841a55b0f51988d5e155e99badbd6ce5cf3b43cca2ba15cd20c971a19719dc9a SHA512 23c67a462acdbbbed495e6cc3e0e22ed028effcc945af30b5925854e216c6f74bb1b416d9b0001726732ae8be510796e996bbca69b225c20422143e5ed1aca5c WHIRLPOOL 42cce226c8d94cc957e3e719eebbb887a696aec987f7ff02972a6ec74d6cc249a79fb804089d95e05341952816f6cc5ef5591f43eb1c411c746b804d2d5bb126
diff --git a/app-misc/asciinema/asciinema-1.4.0.ebuild b/app-misc/asciinema/asciinema-1.4.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..d293a38ae6010
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-misc/asciinema/asciinema-1.4.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{3_4,3_5} )
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Command line recorder for asciinema.org service"
+HOMEPAGE="https://asciinema.org/ https://pypi.python.org/pypi/asciinema"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/${PN}/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="test"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? ( dev-python/nose[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+"
+
+DOCS=( CHANGELOG.md CONTRIBUTING.md README.md doc/asciicast-v1.md )
+
+python_test() {
+	nosetests || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	distutils-r1_src_install
+	doman man/asciinema.1
+}