diff --git a/dev-python/httpcore/Manifest b/dev-python/httpcore/Manifest
index b3dbebc87ef1c..7e3b6100d2604 100644
--- a/dev-python/httpcore/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/httpcore/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST httpcore-0.16.2.gh.tar.gz 78465 BLAKE2B f028bc524dcf865b5213d4ff21dcfff525ac34d4dfa1301ebc56392f3082b3b76b6ec1da5e50a01c416cd09d53ad5edd5f2a6d6d4f9dd78e8a579812c0cebc36 SHA512 d11fe4f6a59e2dc1bce6724941db5978f0863f73e39786121f775d9c1702a32741de2cb4a0588fc907294d1b244713222cc57ef19a0d66e4075075c621f17d9b
+DIST httpcore-0.16.3.gh.tar.gz 79132 BLAKE2B c06d55ce1390085db6c15d3e96160cfb037a935d1298304856defd1778783ad1954924a48653ce165dae9cde18abec157aa72865f57e97d91a564d1b823c863c SHA512 d889da0a3fee4f190ecc3981b8af34fa9b285d00f4ad92158a085c65f3ad8fa5a97a8c711bd51f8b9518b9d2c90ecd457dee1a3d7bbf853715473f4707cc421a
diff --git a/dev-python/httpcore/httpcore-0.16.3.ebuild b/dev-python/httpcore/httpcore-0.16.3.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..621c94bfed430
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/httpcore/httpcore-0.16.3.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( pypy3 python3_{8..11} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 optfeature
+
+DESCRIPTION="A minimal low-level HTTP client"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://www.encode.io/httpcore/
+	https://github.com/encode/httpcore/
+	https://pypi.org/project/httpcore/
+"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/encode/httpcore/archive/${PV}.tar.gz
+		-> ${P}.gh.tar.gz
+"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~loong ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	<dev-python/anyio-5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/certifi[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	<dev-python/h11-0.15[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	<dev-python/h2-5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	=dev-python/sniffio-1*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		dev-python/pytest-asyncio[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest-httpbin[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest-trio[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/socksio[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/trio[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/trustme[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	optfeature "SOCKS support" dev-python/socksio
+}