diff --git a/dev-libs/expat/Manifest b/dev-libs/expat/Manifest
index a68fcdced..824e1b671 100644
--- a/dev-libs/expat/Manifest
+++ b/dev-libs/expat/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
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+DIST expat-2.8.0.tar.xz 511328 BLAKE2B e7b5f20e9960085d2bcfd88ac590e70a9aaebcc4b1411064d008af638bdf4189730d6fd9772d518dc4c38c3cefc649ed31c1e3ad7de64125377dba8c6d2e01b8 SHA512 f395e8de93f297a1aa89df30dd997cc5715c10623ac1b1fc4e18f4cc746d13ddf5729ec253056fe4356ad28881482d906b2e18072b830b1a5335cba2f375bba9
diff --git a/dev-libs/expat/expat-2.8.0.ebuild b/dev-libs/expat/expat-2.8.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0cb23ce60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/expat/expat-2.8.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# Autogen by MARK Devkit
+
+EAPI=7
+inherit autotools
+
+DESCRIPTION=":herb: Fast streaming XML parser written in C99 with >90% test coverage; moved from SourceForge to GitHub"
+HOMEPAGE="https://libexpat.github.io/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/releases/download/R_2_8_0/expat-2.8.0.tar.xz -> expat-2.8.0.tar.xz"
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="*"
+DOCS=(
+	README.md
+)
+IUSE="examples static-libs unicode"
+BDEPEND="unicode? (
+	  sys-devel/automake
+	  sys-devel/autoconf
+	  sys-devel/libtool
+	)
+	app-portage/elt-patches
+	
+"
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	# fix interpreter to be a recent/good shell
+	sed -i -e "1s:/bin/sh:${BASH}:" conftools/get-version.sh || die
+	if use unicode; then
+	  cp -R "${S}" "${S}"w || die
+	  pushd "${S}"w >/dev/null
+	  find -name Makefile.am \
+	    -exec sed \
+	    -e 's,libexpat\.la,libexpatw.la,' \
+	    -e 's,libexpat_la,libexpatw_la,' \
+	    -i {} + || die
+	  eautoreconf
+	  popd >/dev/null
+	fi
+}
+src_configure() {
+	local myconf="$(use_enable static-libs static) --without-docbook"
+	mkdir -p "${BUILD_DIR}"w || die
+	if use unicode; then
+	  pushd "${BUILD_DIR}"w >/dev/null
+	  CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} -DXML_UNICODE" ECONF_SOURCE="${S}"w econf ${myconf}
+	  popd >/dev/null
+	fi
+	ECONF_SOURCE="${S}" econf ${myconf}
+}
+src_compile() {
+	emake
+	if use unicode; then
+	  pushd "${BUILD_DIR}"w >/dev/null
+	  emake -C lib
+	  popd >/dev/null
+	fi
+}
+src_install() {
+	emake install DESTDIR="${D}"
+	if use unicode; then
+	  pushd "${BUILD_DIR}"w >/dev/null
+	  emake -C lib install DESTDIR="${D}"
+	  popd >/dev/null
+	   pushd "${ED}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/pkgconfig >/dev/null
+	  cp expat.pc expatw.pc
+	  sed -i -e '/^Libs/s:-lexpat:&w:' expatw.pc || die
+	  popd >/dev/null
+	fi
+	einstalldocs
+	doman doc/xmlwf.1
+	# Note: Use of HTML_DOCS would add unwanted "doc" subfolder
+	docinto html
+	dodoc doc/*.{css,html}
+	if use examples; then
+	  docinto examples
+	  dodoc examples/*.c
+	  docompress -x usr/share/doc/${PF}/examples
+	fi
+	find "${D}" -name '*.la' -type f -delete || die
+}
+
+
+# vim: filetype=ebuild