diff --git a/dev-ros/tf2_kdl/Manifest b/dev-ros/tf2_kdl/Manifest
index 0d63daf42e42e..3676464cf8db1 100644
--- a/dev-ros/tf2_kdl/Manifest
+++ b/dev-ros/tf2_kdl/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST geometry2-0.5.15.tar.gz 147275 BLAKE2B 27a520d7c76eeea551d95092ede446f2badaee72b72ff24936a2116a0fa824d3f83afa7b07c5d962824e163a4d470490a0d68a8026e9bf829e87d1008b88ddc3 SHA512 10a750948157904c0812aaae85e21eaf5c85dfef3770d418fd0c592a9179cef9fc2082ecc125be0fd0032e705dfb678d45930d3aa2cd0986a71c2e0a7307722c
 DIST geometry2-0.5.16.tar.gz 154351 BLAKE2B e630be09da6de544de0215d40ffcb0aa780be253320264d52603d5fe7506d12b27e986acb9c036973ba390c5cd96b5e838849ee2f5b1399148cf5cffb461cd76 SHA512 11909db98af78bbdef8d1a7dc5f20d3ff3cfcb0afc0e1d53b97a1ffe99aecea911f09364593eb232d7514a4caa192141404d892a33fc7ea9f5ce924ecf99fc51
+DIST geometry2-0.5.17.tar.gz 156516 BLAKE2B 72f936086fe3dbcfa3c05f7ae72e64f20fd1525513e79ed9c4dae7c5b097501ea230c483a3f1eb6e0ba6a342e0ddc5deacf05ec9f0c97b56df48dcf2bf669e8b SHA512 44d91796f03d0cbd8a9247568827dca4a848ec931fa754fd7815e9102f7bcac38e85ebcc27e3037827358dbfbc7d58b28775f00e1e04c48125e56c7b97cde925
diff --git a/dev-ros/tf2_kdl/tf2_kdl-0.5.17.ebuild b/dev-ros/tf2_kdl/tf2_kdl-0.5.17.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f82f2ff4e47a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-ros/tf2_kdl/tf2_kdl-0.5.17.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=5
+ROS_REPO_URI="https://github.com/ros/geometry2"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm"
+ROS_SUBDIR=${PN}
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
+
+inherit ros-catkin
+
+DESCRIPTION="KDL binding for tf2"
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE=""
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-cpp/eigen:3
+	dev-ros/tf2
+	dev-ros/tf2_ros
+	dev-python/python_orocos_kdl[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	sci-libs/orocos_kdl
+	dev-ros/tf2_msgs[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-ros/cmake_modules
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	test? (
+		dev-ros/rostest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-cpp/gtest
+	)"