diff --git a/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/Manifest b/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/Manifest
index bda82292e96ba..75f55fe89e344 100644
--- a/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/Manifest
+++ b/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 DIST kdoctools-5.116.0.tar.xz 465400 BLAKE2B cc4292a871272b72ec1fc4c4d96e9d6ed796c8959198f3c19448527fb01b03a6e539232989adcd46296a9b589bbcaeb2b29bbe14a2e3a0aec2bc4499533b53cf SHA512 06a9d79f5e449ae606f6c5dba20038ad60202c908bb0f7f1dbc8bb3a955db5b6b34e4caa453a7b562d744f30faa62574425d78552b497227d4b5ca8eac3adaab
 DIST kdoctools-6.13.0.tar.xz 458732 BLAKE2B 789c402b1fd784e59818ddc8e563ed6a5c26b85b9f25b8b8511443373e0b8a6f368b5196f5c80f9668cfb0d92cf444e2c090cdbf250eba392725a153425bc0ec SHA512 91b2dcf8102ad4fbbf5df6d0f9d5e26792fab9470f4f558194acc6087bb0bad19d492aa56d508c5892fe14dcf09ba585df4e2bdb166c18d3037c5633dc58a04a
 DIST kdoctools-6.16.0.tar.xz 459296 BLAKE2B 460c5ba44966c59f624bf1afd248cbd283ff34b035696d48c3a600a7254b938f67753dd25c6e0e36b12bc2f0dec19aab8554b97448b31a9205bcd16f408e0189 SHA512 359f44c06ab77f2648033a623ef27a3da149e1e2384a291f9027f8b1c139bf86957b9e97cd25ccc04010dd4ec9bee6db00017c5922309093743904bd1d47fa35
+DIST kdoctools-6.17.0.tar.xz 459244 BLAKE2B c9b27cb10a38e23cff6534d6820f88a171ed044c15ac8b3a5936924a10e6d3a12b0c5cbe2fbb04f6be99126b9bba311cddc6eb551e84890ea5a6bbfb85431119 SHA512 363c48b4dffadf194e13a75f171f2affe0383af1910dbf1ab31828ef2f09057b4ad65a6d39897746b28c61c977a0af437bfb8d5da79d6c3c9ac172e40e5bc302
diff --git a/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/kdoctools-6.17.0.ebuild b/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/kdoctools-6.17.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..6d104bfcbe8bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/kdoctools-6.17.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+ECM_QTHELP="false"
+inherit ecm frameworks.kde.org
+
+DESCRIPTION="Tools to generate documentation in various formats from DocBook files"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~loong ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
+IUSE="nls"
+
+DEPEND="
+	app-text/docbook-xml-dtd:4.5
+	app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets
+	app-text/sgml-common
+	dev-libs/libxml2:2=
+	dev-libs/libxslt
+	=kde-frameworks/karchive-${KDE_CATV}*:6
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-lang/perl
+	dev-perl/URI
+	nls? ( >=kde-frameworks/ki18n-${KDE_CATV}:6 )
+"
+
+CMAKE_SKIP_TESTS=(
+	# bug 665622
+	kdoctools_install
+)
+
+PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-5.54.0-gentoo-docbundledir.patch" )
+
+src_configure() {
+	local mycmakeargs=(
+		$(cmake_use_find_package nls KF6I18n)
+	)
+
+	ecm_src_configure
+}