diff --git a/lxqt-base/liblxqt/Manifest b/lxqt-base/liblxqt/Manifest
index c5a4f06219a01..b8eee5976e182 100644
--- a/lxqt-base/liblxqt/Manifest
+++ b/lxqt-base/liblxqt/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 DIST liblxqt-2.0.0.tar.xz 85988 BLAKE2B f372ae8e0ee063a6918da998d49369fbf3631ee5f1e9d8e3095494060517243da8444b362dc840d5723e03828a7f0de868f823fe050b4aaa633df267252757f6 SHA512 916a035b9c57430f8abc57cbb38a6397183dbc54c708c25f05acae9ddbb2dc7c210bc1957258ff0553cc29772acbc5e51cd6ce670c58d857f395f0b1d0f1e588
 DIST liblxqt-2.1.0.tar.xz 86344 BLAKE2B 7746d8c214f2540c808afc413e86832587ba3df819c1380aa1286991d07d6aab2ccc9a11f3b04de8cb1de23b40f96ef4e51b87274a381de2358ed1d8e75533ed SHA512 98f234ddab09e01f9ac105826ec43171bdffd220d8b462776b5c157a691cbc24a2d8e601ed46f8e55d435403f5518a42a103b151ee3e367eaa909bfc535e45a9
 DIST liblxqt-2.2.0.tar.xz 87336 BLAKE2B 86f8894e8b7fe485a8ee6cd13e594f51612e008efe161f7927deae132ddabd3fa0c39b12b06f40c8bc0219d4c275793efddbebd112e9df34e6f470ed8d7dc59e SHA512 95366ecf6546d4f9a3968cae0994188fef3fdb2d6186fc82a3f342c728a1c95499b4307a8c1db213b88c656766db05059b2a34a99908949bba5093f8cc88615e
+DIST liblxqt-2.3.0.tar.xz 88024 BLAKE2B 55a886909f4d6f83675a3edcb87dd7ba31ffe95660b2b913e8c88a0c794e3375a555a34596ee05a6ddb1e498d16ed3c76ce82cb571f5d8f8993aa7fd5d41cdf0 SHA512 64865bf4bd44af8dd37221b11a81d8f9206dd29789d9b86dde17d4589c91adc55e704d4a4eaefeda40a58b38d57c3fc07db7dacb8f17859fafc91effb32963e8
diff --git a/lxqt-base/liblxqt/liblxqt-2.3.0.ebuild b/lxqt-base/liblxqt/liblxqt-2.3.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..df731ffea4403
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lxqt-base/liblxqt/liblxqt-2.3.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit cmake
+
+DESCRIPTION="Common base library for the LXQt desktop environment"
+HOMEPAGE="https://lxqt-project.org/"
+
+if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/lxqt/${PN}.git"
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/lxqt/${PN}/releases/download/${PV}/${P}.tar.xz"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1+ BSD"
+SLOT="0/$(ver_cut 1-2)"
+IUSE="+backlight"
+
+BDEPEND="
+	>=dev-qt/qttools-6.6:6[linguist]
+	>=dev-util/lxqt-build-tools-2.3.0
+"
+DEPEND="
+	>=dev-libs/libqtxdg-4.3.0
+	>=dev-qt/qtbase-6.6:6[dbus,gui,widgets,xml]
+	kde-frameworks/kwindowsystem:6[X]
+	x11-libs/libX11
+	x11-libs/libXScrnSaver
+	backlight? ( >=sys-auth/polkit-qt-0.200.0[qt6] )
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+src_configure() {
+	local mycmakeargs=(
+		-DBUILD_BACKLIGHT_LINUX_BACKEND=$(usex backlight)
+	)
+
+	cmake_src_configure
+}