diff --git a/dev-python/botocore/Manifest b/dev-python/botocore/Manifest
index 53ab7cd2801eb..8b233ce7a3e72 100644
--- a/dev-python/botocore/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/botocore/Manifest
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ DIST botocore-1.38.36.gh.tar.gz 14720436 BLAKE2B fe5b58bba65c55b4ace04b5fa88de6f
 DIST botocore-1.38.37.gh.tar.gz 14724206 BLAKE2B 25f1ad806e6652a3ac0d257912580fffc28475ff6b398d9b61a3e7c1ae98498ee1ef33a851e78a4504bafcfb1b84b96d28201c27f9bcf46b9cb7c3e427ba210e SHA512 0107bf62650dc865fce053e828c4ee7d6851d13e16f1039f145fd8b3e964eaa70ef7135185f857ae5db31cdd1f6117fc4141c626e603d32b94527298d7974139
 DIST botocore-1.38.38.gh.tar.gz 14762089 BLAKE2B 07dcd8001267c9a6ff962a9a1c10fe8b9b9ebf899469e632ed87a6a0c075fdc3d9853e77fc79f7847ce272e8bf321ce8354fb8ab2bddeccd704c37ea1a69d980 SHA512 0ba2984b147dedc479c4f55bf747f13c1fcebfb3c4c06ffae747c55daf0d565a44282f2110b73dac5f3ba8e34484b7edfe6d2b102036a3870b3859687100d997
 DIST botocore-1.38.39.gh.tar.gz 14778742 BLAKE2B 3d8533688317d05707e0cab26faebab522e24ffc84c189f0b1f7887c83c8f88aebe00fecdf6a660fded37e2edb2089127b4edcee89927f0e76e296f9dc14c368 SHA512 257350cbf5eb9ae5aac601847dcc5c09f74d7e4e73316c2a9bc35980d2300ae43884ffc3ed9aa06184fdef2bfa1ae6901cd0923fbc039d7949a904de1f710f78
+DIST botocore-1.38.40.gh.tar.gz 14783063 BLAKE2B 2c5eeb4ea827b21409fe9b21e837e12245cebc0063246e8e89b9574dc722b52410202a0ff8043cd05401eff2f0132c9e25dc0bcb8bd293902e5c44b957eef1f5 SHA512 4bd2cbb6f9907e33bab222f7da725b8790dcb53e69a2da4552d5bd1cde637d5467ac607a2df946edb2de561c1c81c294ad7933d621ad182e6906192407a4fb3b
diff --git a/dev-python/botocore/botocore-1.38.40.ebuild b/dev-python/botocore/botocore-1.38.40.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..be6df9120cc83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/botocore/botocore-1.38.40.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..14} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Low-level, data-driven core of boto 3"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/boto/botocore/
+	https://pypi.org/project/botocore/
+"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/boto/botocore/archive/${PV}.tar.gz
+		-> ${P}.gh.tar.gz
+"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~loong ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	<dev-python/jmespath-2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/python-dateutil[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/urllib3-1.25.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+# unbundled packages
+RDEPEND+="
+	dev-python/requests[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/six[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		dev-python/jsonschema[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+EPYTEST_XDIST=1
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+src_prepare() {
+	# unpin deps
+	sed -i -e "s:>=.*':':" setup.py || die
+
+	# unbundle deps
+	rm -r botocore/vendored || die
+	find -name '*.py' -exec sed -i \
+		-e 's:from botocore[.]vendored import:import:' \
+		-e 's:from botocore[.]vendored[.]:from :' \
+		{} + || die
+
+	distutils-r1_src_prepare
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	local EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
+		# rely on bundled six
+		tests/functional/test_six_imports.py::test_no_bare_six_imports
+		tests/functional/test_six_threading.py::test_six_thread_safety
+	)
+
+	local -x PYTEST_DISABLE_PLUGIN_AUTOLOAD=1
+	epytest tests/{functional,unit}
+}