diff --git a/media-sound/wavpack/Manifest b/media-sound/wavpack/Manifest
index f64eb9557ec61..e3a5004c5db83 100644
--- a/media-sound/wavpack/Manifest
+++ b/media-sound/wavpack/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST wavpack-5.7.0.tar.xz 814324 BLAKE2B eda7c40137c873447e90e527bdda21ad861b5bcbaeeea8e020f516fbc0313677c71209e67fbb289dbb5b5e55ddc06c91397015678e107b3175441d2de8ec2718 SHA512 63ef6eb5ff71bf6417175691e8377624ade02619c761d80e265c8e0e7305bfe22eeaa1402e36d20c13d20847279f95150ac014019688389da1b87b86558446bd
+DIST wavpack-5.8.1.tar.xz 822696 BLAKE2B f5f5536fc089bffbff236fb487f16d19c8a3da7c69be408d505912cf9edb2bb325ecf64d54beeeb1130710f612576f45cd21b00dcbcc59aa1fe440ac06e67d00 SHA512 9ea32b3c5f876317aab7745159dfe05488cc891b55a9efc8b553fefda508cf6a58d9e20db9f43669f65222842913fab2bef2d716ee31d07f33f4693b848a6325
diff --git a/media-sound/wavpack/metadata.xml b/media-sound/wavpack/metadata.xml
index 93423219a5bca..a79d89739b89f 100644
--- a/media-sound/wavpack/metadata.xml
+++ b/media-sound/wavpack/metadata.xml
@@ -5,4 +5,7 @@
 		<email>sound@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Gentoo Sound project</name>
 	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">dbry/WavPack</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/media-sound/wavpack/wavpack-5.8.1.ebuild b/media-sound/wavpack/wavpack-5.8.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..2c8544bb824fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media-sound/wavpack/wavpack-5.8.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit libtool multilib-minimal
+
+DESCRIPTION="Hybrid lossless audio compression tools"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.wavpack.com/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/releases/download/${PV}/${P}.tar.xz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+
+RDEPEND=">=virtual/libiconv-0-r1"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	elibtoolize
+}
+
+multilib_src_configure() {
+	ECONF_SOURCE="${S}" econf $(multilib_native_enable apps)
+}
+
+multilib_src_install_all() {
+	einstalldocs
+	find "${ED}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
+}