diff --git a/sys-process/minicoredumper/Manifest b/sys-process/minicoredumper/Manifest
index 41e24b50c14f8..eb3247168c7d0 100644
--- a/sys-process/minicoredumper/Manifest
+++ b/sys-process/minicoredumper/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
 DIST minicoredumper-2.0.7.tar.xz 304304 BLAKE2B d59b0e9c7bca8e3638ff0f9e0281c1458f1aa0c64952999a2021b4daf8682a5400ae5f827835703f5da84650bd1784dca3b14ba52266154b7ade4adec2f8b495 SHA512 de4b6e79091f16c7e821d8d0ff22cc3d656616b444ee50cd873713963f6ff9c5b42a033f137d65e7ece72b690cbd692393eacad0ae17c00cc43e80fbc67e7308
+DIST minicoredumper-2.0.8.tar.xz 309592 BLAKE2B c33ad586526cf60b7af0a3fca24226922074be68e11e2b5ec1aaa964ef28db52a769fff6c10d1ba6124ce169d005fd51b9e23e6a24d560409420bf69fba74e32 SHA512 0a6fdba39b74846ce8834f184683bca372f553b06e6fc33f22110b7b88fe12d99f17e4e6040f48215cb36bc97c6afc6ecae3e3b299cfbc0c9b591662584d7ae4
+DIST minicoredumper-2.0.8.tar.xz.asc 265 BLAKE2B 379b70b19d3e53c20b146f648b9ee22cc7ff6b9b2f85c665649b0aceb473214b8eff73de4796b4035241134a738e7e8c5191a5c9ae670c7229016f92b8676af3 SHA512 8496c7dfc1a90dbdd25eb2257cb3bbe61a06399fc281092fbb955fd62b76c776a2e15a270614c0afec7a93bf53841812a9602ca3d68e9c74ef28298123ab2412
diff --git a/sys-process/minicoredumper/minicoredumper-2.0.8.ebuild b/sys-process/minicoredumper/minicoredumper-2.0.8.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..2ef2bbb2fb912
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sys-process/minicoredumper/minicoredumper-2.0.8.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+# Copyright 2020-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=9
+
+inherit verify-sig
+
+DESCRIPTION="Core dump file processor"
+HOMEPAGE="https://linutronix.de/minicoredumper"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://linutronix.de/minicoredumper/files/${P}.tar.xz
+	verify-sig? ( https://linutronix.de/minicoredumper/files/${P}.tar.xz.asc )
+"
+
+LICENSE="BSD BSD-2 LGPL-2.1"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~x86"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-libs/json-c:=
+	virtual/libelf:=
+"
+
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+	verify-sig? (
+		sec-keys/openpgp-keys-johnogness
+	)
+"
+
+VERIFY_SIG_OPENPGP_KEY_PATH=/usr/share/openpgp-keys/johnogness.asc
+
+src_configure() {
+	# regd daemon is disabled as there are no known consumers
+	local myconf=(
+		--runstatedir="${EPREFIX}/run"
+		--with-coreinject
+		--with-libminicoredumper
+		--with-minicoredumper
+		--without-minicoredumper_demo
+		--without-minicoredumper_regd
+		--without-minicoredumper_trigger
+		--without-werror
+		MCD_DUMP_PATH="${EPREFIX}/var/lib/${PN}"
+	)
+	econf ${myconf[@]}
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	default
+
+	keepdir /var/lib/minicoredumper
+
+	# systemd-coredump uses /usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-coredump.conf
+	insinto /usr/lib/sysctl.d
+	newins "${FILESDIR}"/60-minicoredumper.conf-r1 60-minicoredumper.conf
+
+	# some files/dirs we don't want
+	rmdir -v "${ED}/run" || die
+	rm -rv "${ED}"/etc/{init.d,default} || die
+
+	find "${ED}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
+}