diff --git a/dev-lang/crystal/Manifest b/dev-lang/crystal/Manifest
index 73d79d1f50559..318e443034755 100644
--- a/dev-lang/crystal/Manifest
+++ b/dev-lang/crystal/Manifest
@@ -6,3 +6,5 @@ DIST crystal-1.1.1-1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 27999355 BLAKE2B 115d9002973d9e0e1ad2ed
 DIST crystal-1.1.1.tar.gz 2477825 BLAKE2B 4e1b06c831a22447a4d1f065be64b12642ee4b4a75f24b0b73b990944afe6e2a6fca95189b46ea0656b8d13bd7c6a83a23452779b494822803a0264e02b9d4ce SHA512 6e9e977792c863d17ae94aa285a65a453da581a71c3fd9c57cc606ae20813504d675faffa74f78e7c4cf863b6334c4a63ab5356c04fb11d3267dd516e060fe74
 DIST crystal-1.2.1-1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 28586682 BLAKE2B 4d7847cdc6263c369de0926055569986cece1302d2251e4b2d25308609e45c0aa3afe7cdfecba3b7909d7568b1e81aafe69f9976a90c8980684a92231cc3857c SHA512 23cfb2389c65202dc70ebadb85cf0390ba2366520fbfd4b7bb0683c5194cd2b5c87b6b4142dd251471ec4146a5c1046ec86bcafa50c66389a41c9cb394ee6f5d
 DIST crystal-1.2.1.tar.gz 2618956 BLAKE2B e9ffd8b9114af419ee433093066dcf69f86e2f3293a6eeafee20f00c982dcd78774b3faf64d1e2568ba3141e24ef751cb2b5e0b2a2c57dac92d0039e6e224971 SHA512 a6acfac36a8a0d93e39947f2e35238f9cfc43485994fd6caf102f1d62ebc4d71d13d96801e998dbbff9541b76a8eb4fade7b998b179807ed49c1c338207a4720
+DIST crystal-1.2.2-1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 28611412 BLAKE2B 95593120b00b09b0a250917cbfd0841a77ead5e768ad483a900452678be5b231408017c4ac668df4de675612a008a385ed0dbf6ea216aec0343f8b5e8ede3e98 SHA512 7fdb247074723f52f8dfb9d2e18eef1ceb6fcf595bd12ec7304eb292716c4462ee34d2d87eac56302053dd4d8cd2beccde3dc5bfa3c75e6e832813afecfadcde
+DIST crystal-1.2.2.tar.gz 2621720 BLAKE2B abd196aab8d874e7a26116b92b046893c5f03d3ad7a28902fd2bbc3fe8e801f4c5d6766397583864bc3b7642f5c508e7ea0beb82661f87943c8a9914e014e71b SHA512 855f9c103f05d1ebb03d146d93362849a15ea67a64c993219f7c66438585b590caa53a9482daf81810920b39795c9f5c3e2a0caf316b3d62826e2540fd5fb60e
diff --git a/dev-lang/crystal/crystal-1.2.2.ebuild b/dev-lang/crystal/crystal-1.2.2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..6e531f8dcf462
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lang/crystal/crystal-1.2.2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+LLVM_MAX_SLOT=13
+inherit bash-completion-r1 llvm multiprocessing toolchain-funcs
+
+BV=${PV}-1
+BV_AMD64=${BV}-linux-x86_64
+
+DESCRIPTION="The Crystal Programming Language"
+HOMEPAGE="https://crystal-lang.org"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz
+	amd64? ( https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/releases/download/${BV/-*}/crystal-${BV_AMD64}.tar.gz )"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="doc debug llvm-libunwind"
+
+# Upstream test suite not reliable
+RESTRICT=test
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-libs/boehm-gc[static-libs,threads]
+	dev-libs/gmp:=
+	dev-libs/libatomic_ops
+	dev-libs/libevent
+	dev-libs/libpcre
+	dev-libs/pcl:=
+	<sys-devel/llvm-$((${LLVM_MAX_SLOT} + 1)):=
+	llvm-libunwind? ( sys-libs/llvm-libunwind:= )
+	!llvm-libunwind? ( sys-libs/libunwind:= )
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
+	dev-libs/libxml2
+	dev-libs/libyaml
+"
+
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.1.0-verbose.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-0.26.1-gentoo-tests-sandbox.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-0.27.0-extra-spec-flags.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-0.27.0-gentoo-tests-long-unix.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-0.27.0-gentoo-tests-long-unix-2.patch
+)
+
+src_configure() {
+	local bootstrap_path=${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${BV}/bin
+	if [[ ! -d ${bootstrap_path} ]]; then
+		eerror "Binary tarball does not contain expected directory:"
+		die "'${bootstrap_path}' path does not exist."
+	fi
+
+	MY_EMAKE_COMMON_ARGS=(
+		$(usex debug "" release=1)
+		progress=true
+		stats=1
+		threads=$(makeopts_jobs)
+		verbose=1
+		CC=$(tc-getCC)
+		CXX=$(tc-getCXX)
+		AR=$(tc-getAR)
+		LLVM_CONFIG="$(get_llvm_prefix "${LLVM_MAX_SLOT}")/bin/llvm-config"
+		PATH="${bootstrap_path}:${PATH}"
+		CRYSTAL_PATH=src
+		CRYSTAL_CONFIG_VERSION=${PV}
+		CRYSTAL_CONFIG_PATH="lib:${EPREFIX}/usr/$(get_libdir)/crystal"
+	)
+
+	# crystal uses 'LLVM_TARGETS' to override default list of targets
+	unset LLVM_TARGETS
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	emake "${MY_EMAKE_COMMON_ARGS[@]}"
+	use doc && emake docs
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	# EXTRA_SPEC_FLAGS is useful to debug individual tests
+	# as part of full build:
+	#    USE=debug EXTRA_SPEC_FLAGS='-e parse_set_cookie' emerge -1 crystal
+	emake std_spec "${MY_EMAKE_COMMON_ARGS[@]}" "EXTRA_SPEC_FLAGS=${EXTRA_SPEC_FLAGS}"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	insinto /usr/$(get_libdir)/crystal
+	doins -r src/.
+	dobin .build/crystal
+
+	insinto /usr/share/zsh/site-functions
+	newins etc/completion.zsh _crystal
+
+	dodoc -r samples
+
+	if use doc ; then
+		docinto api
+		dodoc -r docs/.
+	fi
+
+	newbashcomp etc/completion.bash ${PN}
+}