diff --git a/sys-libs/ncurses/Manifest b/sys-libs/ncurses/Manifest
index 84e1cb687abaf..964d0e8377dd0 100644
--- a/sys-libs/ncurses/Manifest
+++ b/sys-libs/ncurses/Manifest
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 DIST ncurses-6.5-20250531.patch.gz.asc 729 BLAKE2B 94e72ea10c99afecc97c39854522dab0e95d970e77c36b558003717cf4f8a9f32783a994c88f6e5f657310929c518a7b80e46fbaeaf51f48811b7980458b6621 SHA512 5b7e4b98e2127e914aa997b63b59b4e3e5281f7a453d456ea4a29e5ec84da8ab4c8c74a3723e61613e04e85a412f37488a5cd6f4ff5536a05e3d91033035ecc4
+DIST ncurses-6.5-20250614.patch.gz 43730 BLAKE2B e8f42867dcb03a70024dedd0a635c96b0c913f390cce719c6c0e0adab2c05c24c9aeddfafa5bc7c5b752c45a814ae216d89555485f2e3d9bd49353c4faaf4f8e SHA512 96e91602881c041ecd1d71728114d74066569c9b97908f7e04696f3106c95fa21dc67fed58577f013264aa01c24b647fa47fcf7bf76e734029fa68f99054710e
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+DIST ncurses-6.5_p20250802-patches.tar.xz 64208 BLAKE2B a4e721225ac68590f6d5b492d5ec0a90b2637fe34bbe6bc3bf7eebfd6e295f430f71e63f36bb81db5864868e29d4acb62698dc01511048d929c745b752a95352 SHA512 40d9db23bc9b3baa0fac6bc380c47bc13bf2928796b6a0ab706f952dd6c39cba939e772f13b0323656b661f9006cd4d5dbde705db79a2bf28980c6f423ded374
diff --git a/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.5_p20250802.ebuild b/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.5_p20250802.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..fe59c3f8d655f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.5_p20250802.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,498 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+# sys-libs/ncurses-compat can be bumped with sys-libs/ncurses as upstream
+# provide a configure option for the ABI version.
+
+VERIFY_SIG_OPENPGP_KEY_PATH=/usr/share/openpgp-keys/thomasdickey.asc
+inherit flag-o-matic toolchain-funcs multilib multilib-minimal preserve-libs usr-ldscript verify-sig
+
+MY_PV="${PV:0:3}"
+MY_P="${PN}-${MY_PV}"
+DESCRIPTION="Console display library"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/"
+# Keep invisible-mirror.net here as some users reported 403 forbidden with invisible-island.net
+SRC_URI="
+	mirror://gnu/ncurses/${MY_P}.tar.gz
+	https://invisible-island.net/archives/${PN}/${MY_P}.tar.gz
+	https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/${PN}/${MY_P}.tar.gz
+	verify-sig? ( mirror://gnu/ncurses/${MY_P}.tar.gz.sig )
+"
+
+GENTOO_PATCH_DEV=sam
+GENTOO_PATCH_PV=6.5_p20250802
+GENTOO_PATCH_NAME=${PN}-${GENTOO_PATCH_PV}-patches
+
+# Populated below in a loop. Do not add patches manually here.
+UPSTREAM_PATCHES=()
+
+if [[ ${PV} == *_p* ]] ; then
+	# Sometimes, after releases, there's no megapatch available yet.
+	#
+	# From upstream README at e.g. https://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/6.3/:
+	#
+	#	"At times (generally to mark a relatively stable point), I create a rollup
+	#	patch, which consists of all changes from the release through the current date."
+	#
+	# Also, from https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-08/msg00039.html,
+	# the patches are considered to be acceptable to use after some testing. They
+	# are both for development but also bug fixes.
+	#
+	# This array should contain a list of all the snapshots since the last
+	# release if there's no megapatch available yet.
+	PATCH_DATES=(
+		20240504
+		20240511
+		20240518
+		20240519
+		20240525
+		20240601
+		20240608
+		20240615
+		20240622
+		20240629
+		20240706
+		20240713
+		20240720
+		20240727
+		20240810
+		20240817
+		20240824
+		20240831
+		20240914
+		20240922
+		20240928
+		20241006
+		20241019
+		20241026
+		20241102
+		20241109
+		20241123
+		20241130
+		20241207
+		20241214
+		20241221
+		20241228
+		20250104
+		20250111
+		20250118
+		20250125
+		20250201
+		20250208
+		20250215
+		20250216
+		20250222
+		20250301
+		20250308
+		20250315
+		20250322
+		20250329
+		20250405
+		20250412
+		20250419
+		20250426
+		20250503
+		20250510
+		20250517
+		20250524
+		20250531
+		20250614
+		20250621
+		20250628
+		20250705
+		20250712
+		20250720
+		20250726
+
+		# Latest patch is just _pN = $(ver_cut 4)
+		$(ver_cut 4)
+	)
+
+	if [[ -z ${PATCH_DATES[@]} ]] ; then
+		SRC_URI+=" https://invisible-island.net/archives/${PN}/${PV/_p*}/${MY_P/_p/-}.patch.sh.gz"
+		SRC_URI+=" verify-sig? ( https://invisible-island.net/archives/${PN}/${PV/_p*}/${MY_P/_p/-}.patch.sh.gz.asc"
+
+		# If we have a rollup patch, use that instead of the individual ones.
+		UPSTREAM_PATCHES+=( patch.sh )
+	else
+		# We use a mirror as well because we've had reports of 403 forbidden for some users.
+		upstream_url_base="https://invisible-island.net/archives/${PN}/${PV/_p*}/${MY_P}-"
+		upstream_m_url_base="https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/${PN}/${PV/_p*}/${MY_P}-"
+
+		# Prefix each date with the upstream location (https://invisible-island.net/archives/${PN}/${PV/_p*}/${MY_P})
+		mangled_patches=( "${PATCH_DATES[@]/#/${upstream_url_base}}" )
+		# Suffix each with .patch.gz
+		mangled_patches=( "${mangled_patches[@]/%/.patch.gz}" )
+		mangled_patches_sig=( "${mangled_patches[@]/%/.asc}" )
+		# Repeat for .patch.gz.asc for verify-sig
+		SRC_URI+=" ${mangled_patches[@]}"
+		SRC_URI+=" verify-sig? ( ${mangled_patches_sig[@]} )"
+
+		# For all of the URLs, chuck in invisible-island.net too:
+		SRC_URI+=" ${mangled_patches[@]/${upstream_url_base}/${upstream_m_url_base}}"
+		SRC_URI+=" verify-sig? ( ${mangled_patches_sig[@]/${upstream_url_base}/${upstream_m_url_base}} )"
+
+		UPSTREAM_PATCHES=( "${PATCH_DATES[@]/%/.patch}" )
+
+		unset upstream_url_base upstream_m_url_base mangled_patches mangled_patches_sig
+	fi
+fi
+
+SRC_URI+=" https://dev.gentoo.org/~${GENTOO_PATCH_DEV}/distfiles/${CATEGORY}/${PN}/${GENTOO_PATCH_NAME}.tar.xz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+# The subslot reflects the SONAME.
+SLOT="0/6"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~arm64-macos ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+IUSE="ada +cxx debug doc gpm minimal profile split-usr +stack-realign static-libs test tinfo trace"
+# In 6.5_p20250118, the C++ examples fail to link, but there's no automated
+# testsuite anyway. Controlling building examples isn't really what USE=test
+# is for. Just restrict them.
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test ) test"
+
+# TODO: ncurses allows (and we take advantage of this, even) passing
+# the SONAME for dlopen() use, so only the header is needed at build time.
+# Maybe we should bundle a copy of gpm.h so we can move gpm to PDEPEND
+# which would be far nicer UX-wise.
+DEPEND="gpm? ( sys-libs/gpm[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )"
+# Block the older ncurses that installed all files w/SLOT=5, bug #557472
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+	!<=sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r4:5
+	!<sys-libs/slang-2.3.2_pre23
+	!<x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-9.06-r3
+	!<x11-terms/st-0.6-r1
+	!minimal? ( !<x11-terms/ghostty-1.1.0 )
+"
+BDEPEND="verify-sig? ( sec-keys/openpgp-keys-thomasdickey )"
+
+PATCHES=(
+	"${UPSTREAM_PATCHES[@]/#/${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}-}"
+
+	# When rebasing Gentoo's patchset, please use git from a clean
+	# src_prepare with upstream patches already applied. git am --reject
+	# the existing patchset and rebase as required. This makes it easier
+	# to manage future rebasing & adding new patches.
+	#
+	# For the same reasons, please include the original configure.in changes,
+	# NOT just the generated results!
+	"${WORKDIR}"/${GENTOO_PATCH_NAME}
+)
+
+src_unpack() {
+	# Avoid trying to verify our own patchset tarball, there's no point
+	if use verify-sig ; then
+		local file
+		for file in ${A} ; do
+			if [[ ${file} == ${MY_P}.tar.gz ]] ; then
+				verify-sig_verify_detached "${DISTDIR}"/${file} "${DISTDIR}"/${file}.sig
+			else
+				[[ ${file} == @(*${GENTOO_PATCH_NAME}.tar.xz|*.asc|*.sig) ]] && continue
+
+				verify-sig_verify_detached "${DISTDIR}"/${file} "${DISTDIR}"/${file}.asc
+			fi
+		done
+	fi
+
+	default
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	# bug #115036
+	unset TERMINFO
+
+	tc-export_build_env BUILD_{CC,CXX,CPP}
+
+	# bug #214642
+	BUILD_CPPFLAGS+=" -D_GNU_SOURCE"
+
+	# Build the various variants of ncurses -- narrow, wide, and threaded. #510440
+	# Order matters here -- we want unicode/thread versions to come last so that the
+	# binaries in /usr/bin support both wide and narrow.
+	# The naming is also important as we use these directly with filenames and when
+	# checking configure flags.
+	NCURSES_TARGETS=(
+		ncurses
+		ncursesw
+		ncursest
+		ncursestw
+	)
+
+	# When installing ncurses, we have to use a compatible version of tic.
+	# This comes up when cross-compiling, doing multilib builds, upgrading,
+	# or installing for the first time.  Build a local copy of tic whenever
+	# the host version isn't available. bug #249363, bug #557598
+	if ! has_version -b "~sys-libs/${P}:0" ; then
+		local lbuildflags="-static"
+
+		# some toolchains don't quite support static linking
+		local dbuildflags="-Wl,-rpath,${WORKDIR}/lib"
+		case ${CHOST} in
+			*-darwin*)  dbuildflags=     ;;
+			*-solaris*) dbuildflags="-Wl,-R,${WORKDIR}/lib" ;;
+		esac
+		echo "int main() {}" | \
+			$(tc-getCC) -o x -x c - ${lbuildflags} -pipe >& /dev/null \
+			|| lbuildflags="${dbuildflags}"
+
+		# We can't re-use the multilib BUILD_DIR because we run outside of it.
+		BUILD_DIR="${WORKDIR}" \
+		CC=${BUILD_CC} \
+		CXX=${BUILD_CXX} \
+		CPP=${BUILD_CPP} \
+		CHOST=${CBUILD} \
+		CFLAGS=${BUILD_CFLAGS} \
+		CXXFLAGS=${BUILD_CXXFLAGS} \
+		CPPFLAGS=${BUILD_CPPFLAGS} \
+		LDFLAGS="${BUILD_LDFLAGS} ${lbuildflags}" \
+		do_configure cross --without-shared --with-normal --with-progs --without-ada
+	fi
+	multilib-minimal_src_configure
+}
+
+multilib_src_configure() {
+	if [[ ${ABI} == x86 ]] ; then
+		# For compatibility with older binaries at slight performance cost.
+		# bug #616402
+		use stack-realign && append-flags -mstackrealign
+	fi
+
+	local t
+	for t in "${NCURSES_TARGETS[@]}" ; do
+		do_configure "${t}"
+	done
+}
+
+do_configure() {
+	local target=$1
+	shift
+
+	mkdir "${BUILD_DIR}/${target}" || die
+	cd "${BUILD_DIR}/${target}" || die
+
+	local conf=(
+		# We need the basic terminfo files in /etc, bug #37026.  We will
+		# add '--with-terminfo-dirs' and then populate /etc/terminfo in
+		# src_install() ...
+		--with-terminfo-dirs="${EPREFIX}/etc/terminfo:${EPREFIX}/usr/share/terminfo"
+
+		# Enable installation of .pc files.
+		--enable-pc-files
+		# This path is used to control where the .pc files are installed.
+		--with-pkg-config-libdir="${EPREFIX}/usr/$(get_libdir)/pkgconfig"
+
+		# Now the rest of the various standard flags.
+		--with-shared
+		--enable-fvisibility
+		# (Originally disabled until bug #245417 is sorted out, but now
+		# just keeping it off for good, given nobody needed it until now
+		# (2022) and we're trying to phase out bdb.)
+		--without-hashed-db
+		$(use_with ada)
+		$(use_with cxx)
+		$(use_with cxx cxx-binding)
+		--with-cxx-shared
+		$(use_with debug)
+		$(use_with profile)
+		# The configure script uses ldd to parse the linked output which
+		# is flaky for cross-compiling/multilib/ldd versions/etc...
+		$(use_with gpm gpm libgpm.so.1)
+
+		# bug #930806
+		--disable-setuid-environ
+		# TODO: Maybe do these for USE=hardened
+		#--disable-root-access
+		#--disable-root-environ
+
+		--disable-termcap
+		--enable-symlinks
+		--with-manpage-format=normal
+		--enable-const
+		--enable-colorfgbg
+		--enable-hard-tabs
+		--enable-echo
+		$(use_enable !ada warnings)
+		$(use_enable debug assertions)
+		$(use_enable !debug leaks)
+		$(use_enable debug expanded)
+		$(use_enable !debug macros)
+		$(multilib_native_with progs)
+		$(use_with test tests)
+		$(use_with trace)
+		$(use_with tinfo termlib)
+		--disable-stripping
+		--disable-pkg-ldflags
+	)
+
+	case ${CHOST} in
+		*-mingw32*)
+			conf+=( --enable-term-driver )
+			;;
+		*)
+			conf+=( --disable-term-driver )
+			;;
+	esac
+
+	if [[ ${target} == ncurses*w ]] ; then
+		conf+=( --enable-widec )
+	else
+		conf+=( --disable-widec )
+	fi
+	if [[ ${target} == ncursest* ]] ; then
+		conf+=( --with-{pthread,reentrant} )
+	else
+		conf+=( --without-{pthread,reentrant} )
+	fi
+
+	# Make sure each variant goes in a unique location.
+	if [[ ${target} == "ncurses" ]] ; then
+		# "ncurses" variant goes into "${EPREFIX}"/usr/include
+		# It is needed on Prefix because the configure script appends
+		# "ncurses" to "${prefix}/include" if "${prefix}" is not /usr.
+		conf+=( --enable-overwrite )
+	else
+		conf+=( --includedir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/include/${target} )
+	fi
+	# See comments in src_configure.
+	if [[ ${target} != "cross" ]] ; then
+		local cross_path="${WORKDIR}/cross"
+		[[ -d ${cross_path} ]] && export TIC_PATH="${cross_path}/progs/tic"
+	fi
+
+	ECONF_SOURCE="${S}" econf "${conf[@]}" "$@"
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	# See comments in src_configure.
+	if ! has_version -b "~sys-libs/${P}:0" ; then
+		BUILD_DIR="${WORKDIR}" do_compile cross -C progs tic$(get_exeext)
+	fi
+
+	multilib-minimal_src_compile
+}
+
+multilib_src_compile() {
+	local t
+	for t in "${NCURSES_TARGETS[@]}" ; do
+		do_compile "${t}"
+	done
+}
+
+do_compile() {
+	local target=$1
+	shift
+
+	cd "${BUILD_DIR}/${target}" || die
+
+	# A little hack to fix parallel builds ... they break when
+	# generating sources so if we generate the sources first (in
+	# non-parallel), we can then build the rest of the package
+	# in parallel.  This is not really a perf hit since the source
+	# generation is quite small.
+	emake -j1 sources
+
+	# For some reason, sources depends on pc-files which depends on
+	# compiled libraries which depends on sources which ...
+	# Manually delete the pc-files file so the install step will
+	# create the .pc files we want.
+	rm -f misc/pc-files || die
+	emake "$@"
+}
+
+multilib_src_install() {
+	local target
+	for target in "${NCURSES_TARGETS[@]}" ; do
+		emake -C "${BUILD_DIR}/${target}" DESTDIR="${D}" install
+	done
+
+	# Move main libraries into /.
+	if multilib_is_native_abi ; then
+		gen_usr_ldscript -a \
+			"${NCURSES_TARGETS[@]}" \
+			$(usex tinfo 'tinfow tinfo' '')
+	fi
+
+	# Don't delete '*.dll.a', needed for linking, bug #631468
+	if ! use static-libs; then
+		find "${ED}"/usr/ -name '*.a' ! -name '*.dll.a' -delete || die
+	fi
+
+	# Build fails to create this ...
+	# -FIXME-
+	# Ugly hackaround for riscv having two parts libdir (bug #689240)
+	# Replace this hack with an official solution once we have one...
+	# -FIXME-
+	dosym $(sed 's@[^/]\+@..@g' <<< $(get_libdir))/share/terminfo \
+		/usr/$(get_libdir)/terminfo
+
+	# Remove obsolete libcurses symlink that is created by the build
+	# system. Technically, this could be also achieved
+	# via --disable-overwrite but it also moves headers implicitly,
+	# and we do not want to do this yet.
+	# bug #836696
+	rm "${ED}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/libcurses* || die
+}
+
+multilib_src_install_all() {
+	local terms=(
+		# Dumb/simple values that show up when using the in-kernel VT.
+		ansi console dumb linux
+		vt{52,100,102,200,220}
+		# [u]rxvt users used to be pretty common.  Probably should drop this
+		# since upstream is dead and people are moving away from it.
+		rxvt{,-unicode}{,-256color}
+		# xterm users are common, as is terminals re-using/spoofing it.
+		xterm xterm-{,256}color
+		# screen is common (and reused by tmux).
+		screen{,-256color}
+		screen.xterm-256color
+	)
+	if use split-usr ; then
+		local x
+		# We need the basic terminfo files in /etc for embedded/recovery, bug #37026
+		einfo "Installing basic terminfo files in /etc..."
+		for x in "${terms[@]}"; do
+			local termfile=$(find "${ED}"/usr/share/terminfo/ -name "${x}" 2>/dev/null)
+			local basedir=$(basename "$(dirname "${termfile}")")
+
+			if [[ -n ${termfile} ]] ; then
+				dodir "/etc/terminfo/${basedir}"
+				mv "${termfile}" "${ED}/etc/terminfo/${basedir}/" || die
+				dosym "../../../../etc/terminfo/${basedir}/${x}" \
+					"/usr/share/terminfo/${basedir}/${x}"
+			fi
+		done
+
+		echo "CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=\"/etc/terminfo\"" | newenvd - 50ncurses
+
+		use minimal && rm -r "${ED}"/usr/share/terminfo*
+		# Because ncurses5-config --terminfo returns the directory we keep it
+		# bug #245374
+		keepdir /usr/share/terminfo
+	elif use minimal ; then
+		# Keep only the basic terminfo files
+		find "${ED}"/usr/share/terminfo/ \
+			\( -type f -o -type l \) ${terms[*]/#/! -name } -delete , \
+			-type d -empty -delete || die
+	fi
+
+	cd "${S}" || die
+	dodoc ANNOUNCE MANIFEST NEWS README* TO-DO doc/*.doc
+	if use doc ; then
+		docinto html
+		dodoc -r doc/html/
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_preinst() {
+	preserve_old_lib /$(get_libdir)/libncurses.so.5
+	preserve_old_lib /$(get_libdir)/libncursesw.so.5
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	preserve_old_lib_notify /$(get_libdir)/libncurses.so.5
+	preserve_old_lib_notify /$(get_libdir)/libncursesw.so.5
+}