diff --git a/net-news/liferea/files/liferea-1.12_rc3-signal.patch b/net-news/liferea/files/liferea-1.12_rc3-signal.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..56fa5a8cce646
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-news/liferea/files/liferea-1.12_rc3-signal.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+From b08641b21bdb590770e10bad873666aedf4ae306 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: leiaz <leiaz@free.fr>
+Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 20:08:39 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #500 Connects browser entry to callback
+
+Glade copy/paste doesn't copy the signals/callbacks part. I missed that
+one when updating the ui file.
+---
+ glade/prefs.ui | 24 ++++++++++++++----------
+ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/glade/prefs.ui b/glade/prefs.ui
+index b5b97bac0..65d055986 100644
+--- a/glade/prefs.ui
++++ b/glade/prefs.ui
+@@ -736,16 +736,6 @@
+                       </packing>
+                     </child>
+                     <child>
+-                      <object class="GtkComboBox" id="browserpopup">
+-                        <property name="visible">True</property>
+-                        <property name="can_focus">False</property>
+-                      </object>
+-                      <packing>
+-                        <property name="left_attach">1</property>
+-                        <property name="top_attach">1</property>
+-                      </packing>
+-                    </child>
+-                    <child>
+                       <object class="GtkLabel" id="manuallabel">
+                         <property name="visible">True</property>
+                         <property name="can_focus">False</property>
+@@ -765,6 +755,7 @@
+                         <property name="visible">True</property>
+                         <property name="can_focus">True</property>
+                         <property name="activates_default">True</property>
++                        <signal name="changed" handler="on_browsercmd_changed" swapped="no"/>
+                       </object>
+                       <packing>
+                         <property name="left_attach">1</property>
+@@ -787,6 +778,16 @@
+                       </packing>
+                     </child>
+                     <child>
++                      <object class="GtkComboBox" id="browserpopup">
++                        <property name="visible">True</property>
++                        <property name="can_focus">False</property>
++                      </object>
++                      <packing>
++                        <property name="left_attach">1</property>
++                        <property name="top_attach">1</property>
++                      </packing>
++                    </child>
++                    <child>
+                       <placeholder/>
+                     </child>
+                   </object>
+@@ -1422,5 +1423,8 @@
+     <action-widgets>
+       <action-widget response="-7">prefclosebtn</action-widget>
+     </action-widgets>
++    <child>
++      <placeholder/>
++    </child>
+   </object>
+ </interface>
diff --git a/net-news/liferea/liferea-1.12_rc3-r1.ebuild b/net-news/liferea/liferea-1.12_rc3-r1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..5e51ec5805474
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-news/liferea/liferea-1.12_rc3-r1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{4,5} )
+
+inherit autotools gnome2 pax-utils python-single-r1
+
+MY_P=${P/_/-}
+MY_PV=${PV/_/-}
+
+S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}
+
+DESCRIPTION="News Aggregator for RDF/RSS/CDF/Atom/Echo feeds"
+HOMEPAGE="https://lzone.de/liferea/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/lwindolf/${PN}/releases/download/v${MY_PV}/${MY_P}.tar.bz2"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~ppc ~x86"
+IUSE=""
+REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
+
+RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
+	>=dev-db/sqlite-3.7.0:3
+	>=dev-libs/glib-2.28.0:2
+	dev-libs/gobject-introspection
+	dev-libs/json-glib
+	>=dev-libs/libpeas-1.0.0[gtk,python,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.27:2
+	>=dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.19
+	gnome-base/gsettings-desktop-schemas
+	>=net-libs/libsoup-2.42:2.4
+	net-libs/webkit-gtk:4
+	x11-libs/gtk+:3
+	>=x11-libs/pango-1.4.0"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-util/intltool
+	virtual/pkgconfig"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}"/${MY_P}
+
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}/${P}-signal.patch"
+)
+
+src_prepare() {
+	gnome2_src_prepare
+
+	# gnome2_src_prepare calls elibtoolize
+	if [ -f "${S}"/.elibtoolized ]; then
+		local AT_NOELIBTOOLIZE="yes"
+	fi
+	eautoreconf
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	gnome2_src_configure --disable-schemas-compile
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	gnome2_src_install
+
+	# bug #338213
+	# Uses webkit's JIT. Needs mmap('rwx') to generate code in runtime.
+	# MPROTECT policy violation. Will sit here until webkit will
+	# get optional JIT.
+	pax-mark m "${D%/}"/usr/bin/liferea
+
+	einfo "If you want to enhance the functionality of this package,"
+	einfo "you should consider installing:"
+	einfo "    net-misc/networkmanager"
+}