diff --git a/dev-lua/luv/Manifest b/dev-lua/luv/Manifest
index d5445635f8bac..41bb93c952b46 100644
--- a/dev-lua/luv/Manifest
+++ b/dev-lua/luv/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST luv-1.32.0.0.tar.gz 91349 BLAKE2B e4a90b3241e2fe650f62e34439ed75f9ba53168d6bd96b8685fc5600d6f9cbb1bb598a7d40d918ab9123cf4bad99f872a79d0664056d35caba52d1eda9046020 SHA512 7db52afc1ca79052e349be7a37deb67066ee9005f8d7f7d0dae62bd83a93b4140103ee6dddeca2e02a3fc37b3880a5c18904429886af1d441f8de0cfabf5bd8c
+DIST luv-1.36.0.0.tar.gz 107196 BLAKE2B 31a02c3e928559037355186810187299a3cb1420265a27756b0613781621c78c18edc272072cc29c46336787b040453cc9a06195264c0a72a985e49c48202022 SHA512 3119c1450a8317725d59cc1ab6afccfbde752b0c32b38909dfdd31bf88ea0751920dc68750da52cf17a6430637cf1094f4d5500e4c50d1145eca48bb12728ba1
 DIST luv-lua-compat-0.10.tar.gz 53695 BLAKE2B e570aedb23b8ed7ca38c4316ffab25b93a0f9f6f0fae79af563ca8a81dd6453ac273e1f9e70674c484a2dec68749e7d53a1c1736a72616c210b8e38a31b3f191 SHA512 f7f39085f4f6b16095f41e635b4c5477b3dab5e42b5b65a9d522941a3807ea521d4a27a77293a3c9d0ecea78a1f6c2a2497394b2d220f4d7d65e23510563d46d
diff --git a/dev-lua/luv/luv-1.36.0.0.ebuild b/dev-lua/luv/luv-1.36.0.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..74f8394863810
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lua/luv/luv-1.36.0.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+# Copyright 2019-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+LUA_COMPAT=( lua5-{1..4} luajit )
+
+inherit cmake flag-o-matic lua-single unpacker
+
+# e.g. MY_PV = a.b.c-d
+MY_PV="$(ver_rs 3 -)"
+MY_P="${PN}-${MY_PV}"
+
+DESCRIPTION="Bare libuv bindings for lua"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/luvit/luv"
+
+LUA_COMPAT_PV="0.10"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/luvit/${PN}/archive/${MY_PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz
+	https://github.com/keplerproject/lua-compat-5.3/archive/v${LUA_COMPAT_PV}.tar.gz -> ${PN}-lua-compat-${LUA_COMPAT_PV}.tar.gz
+"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0 MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm ~arm64 x86 ~x64-macos"
+IUSE="test"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+REQUIRED_USE="${LUA_REQUIRED_USE}"
+
+BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
+DEPEND="${LUA_DEPS}
+	>=dev-libs/libuv-1.32.0:="
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.32.0.0-cmake_lua_version.patch
+)
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	# Fix libdir
+	# Match '/lib/' and '/lib"' without capturing / or ", replacing with libdir
+	sed -i -r "s/\/lib(\"|\/)/\/$(get_libdir)\1/g" CMakeLists.txt || die "Failed to sed CMakeLists.txt"
+	cmake_src_prepare
+}
+
+# This could in theory be multi-impl (and we have an ebuild in git history,
+# 1.32.0.0-r101, which implements it) - the only revdep currently in the tree,
+# app-editors/neovim, actually links against luv instead of trying to load it
+# as a module. We could probably implement some sort of a hack for this
+# - but given how messy it would be, don't bother unless someone actually requests
+# luv multi-impl support.
+src_configure() {
+	lua_compat_dir="${WORKDIR}/lua-compat-5.3-${LUA_COMPAT_PV}"
+
+	local mycmakeargs=(
+		-DBUILD_MODULE=OFF
+		-DLUA_BUILD_TYPE=System
+		-DLUA_COMPAT53_DIR="${lua_compat_dir}"
+		-DWITH_SHARED_LIBUV=ON
+	)
+	if [[ ${ELUA} == luajit ]]; then
+		mycmakeargs+=(
+			-DWITH_LUA_ENGINE=LuaJIT
+		)
+	else
+		mycmakeargs+=(
+			-DWITH_LUA_ENGINE=Lua
+			-DLUA_VERSION=$(ver_cut 1-2 $(lua_get_version))
+		)
+	fi
+
+	if [[ ${CHOST} == *-darwin* ]] ; then
+		append-ldflags "-undefined dynamic_lookup"
+	fi
+
+	cmake_src_configure
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	# We need to copy the library back so that the tests see it
+	ln -s "${BUILD_DIR}/libluv.so" "./luv.so" || die "Failed to symlink library for tests"
+	${ELUA} "tests/run.lua" || die "Tests failed"
+}