diff --git a/dev-cpp/libxmlpp/Manifest b/dev-cpp/libxmlpp/Manifest
index 64d65bb2a0345..025df11f206fa 100644
--- a/dev-cpp/libxmlpp/Manifest
+++ b/dev-cpp/libxmlpp/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 DIST libxml++-2.42.3.tar.xz 922400 BLAKE2B ce4538094b758f990418e1fe5f00e6b839ec82041983855d018c1ff94a3a21038f5d99456e8374aed552108a463c6481def6ac695626134dd5d514c7124c6568 SHA512 591d1a203a4c1bb2c27200322429ee68ed12e6ddfd9cb3168e50fb2382102ee113d70b66b485ccac0b4aabefa2ff567ccf813d35d3aa70251367bd07722bfb2a
 DIST libxml++-5.0.4.tar.xz 896868 BLAKE2B 71711163edb1c101700b4d2414ac8cb9f58116405c17bed23bef0abe664af82ddb2a4384b777bacc3035ea42177b8711ac81acb58460cd1bf4f35365a782b4e0 SHA512 449c624848b5b66b6a1a185f2486cb146bc3470e21dc0d6b56d6022ca521217e9f00e973f7085c04c64bfcd9491f16d1879e55f80996176ae62674f61acb9bd8
 DIST libxml++-5.4.0.tar.xz 887292 BLAKE2B 7c6ca01092b29a67b35978c8bf0b359e7c8b1a7a96d5f561945844f1bffe510bec62a9c33949113a03819f51736361a26939387809ca88338c40549e9b11436c SHA512 bba28edf40c60ac186ff1b704d9f4f41f73c1be3126cfb345005283b32bb5c9a596b8def64be8ad8e295e1e169bed91d120d5105cbbb6cecc4675d10b897dfe6
+DIST libxml++-5.6.1.tar.xz 836624 BLAKE2B 5aae8f198cdf6b678be67b3021d9ddad72256d32d8de46f5c06f84f2886d677cc832acdd36fd046ea56bf7cbdacfa65dacf2ba98aa2bf94cf0eaf9636bf39e8e SHA512 b80146fce10e91bd77a190e8f6cd166cce88f87da1505b94f56248055448e80e688fde725bc908a110f01082f7cfae62c23ae87b6cc57f4663ea62d43b43c1dc
diff --git a/dev-cpp/libxmlpp/libxmlpp-5.6.1.ebuild b/dev-cpp/libxmlpp/libxmlpp-5.6.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8323ce65e8c73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-cpp/libxmlpp/libxmlpp-5.6.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit gnome2 meson
+
+DESCRIPTION="C++ wrapper for the libxml2 XML parser library"
+HOMEPAGE="https://libxmlplusplus.github.io/libxmlplusplus/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/libxmlplusplus/libxmlplusplus/releases/download/${PV}/${P/pp/++}.tar.xz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${P/pp/++}"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"
+SLOT="5.0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc ~x86"
+IUSE="doc test"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-libs/libxml2-2.7.7:2=
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+	doc? (
+		dev-cpp/mm-common
+		app-text/doxygen
+		media-gfx/graphviz
+		dev-libs/libxslt
+	)
+"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	sed -i \
+		-e "/install_docdir = /s/'doc'/'gtk-doc'/" \
+		docs/reference/meson.build || die
+	sed -i \
+		-e "/install_tutorialdir = /s/'doc'/'gtk-doc'/" \
+		docs/manual/meson.build || die
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	local emesonargs=(
+		-Dmaintainer-mode=false
+		-Dwarnings=min
+		-Ddist-warnings=max
+		-Dbuild-deprecated-api=true
+		$(meson_use doc build-documentation)
+		-Dvalidation=false
+		-Dbuild-pdf=false
+		-Dbuild-examples=false
+		-Dbuild-manual=false
+		$(meson_use test build-tests)
+		-Dmsvc14x-parallel-installable=false
+	)
+	meson_src_configure
+}