diff --git a/app-crypt/acme/Manifest b/app-crypt/acme/Manifest
index ad3412d71ac4d..474f90116493b 100644
--- a/app-crypt/acme/Manifest
+++ b/app-crypt/acme/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST certbot-0.38.0.tar.gz 1328474 BLAKE2B 6ea7c6b5d1840ec9d42509859d0f36f3ac3c4e588149e54fd74f8799a414b43c4d182b47e051a96436c9cdac135999d7e2a25424be680a819d50de64bb85b198 SHA512 832ac36c5b13e9764c9aab40856af7b909b630f34b1fe1e42dbf847357b28b2a130df480f1cb543dad0db781a843a79a310eba7b1097370e267d01431c21ee29
 DIST certbot-0.39.0.tar.gz 1350312 BLAKE2B 5f21c45d25754cb1ed0ad92e8d03637928a274637de09903509c7e78c40fd197e95cfa1f3effecef938d6ab8369dc6811714ddb5a93a806048e0998d1032e4f9 SHA512 17ab17a5f74e3fba58b1a8b9afe0c3656c7b2a5ea3585edb05ad84e36250c6a8d4d28bd692bc97d033c95eb0bbeff4eb84981ae0006e36d55846cd38373b86a0
+DIST certbot-0.40.1.tar.gz 1353347 BLAKE2B 86b3df4047101d00d5f17cf3a1a11e5800e850f5a9f736507ad373e552c27e9e4a3a17695f5a817d191cad383fc17336214fc1d8de7a99354ce4d2f5c6e728c1 SHA512 e5517a20cf26efba850728b3f81db5d6c3c5570b0a1c8eeeec9d4a4401ac04bcf44c6a2f1c248bf6e0b1be4a21b54f6168ccd11dc766304805f13b4cb16336b3
diff --git a/app-crypt/acme/acme-0.40.1.ebuild b/app-crypt/acme/acme-0.40.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..3efe8a99669b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-crypt/acme/acme-0.40.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+PYTHON_COMPAT=(python{2_7,3_5,3_6,3_7})
+
+if [[ ${PV} == 9999* ]]; then
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/certbot/certbot.git"
+	inherit git-r3
+	S=${WORKDIR}/${P}/${PN}
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/certbot/certbot/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> certbot-${PV}.tar.gz"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~x86"
+	S=${WORKDIR}/certbot-${PV}/acme
+fi
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="An implementation of the ACME protocol"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/certbot/certbot https://letsencrypt.org/"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE="doc test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/cryptography-1.3.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/idna-2.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/josepy-1.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/pyopenssl-0.13.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pyrfc3339[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pytz[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/requests-2.10[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/requests-toolbelt-0.3.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/six-1.9.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+DEPEND="
+	doc? (
+		dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/sphinx_rtd_theme[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+	test? (
+		${RDEPEND}
+		dev-python/nose[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest-xdist[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+	>=dev-python/setuptools-1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+src_compile() {
+	python_foreach_impl run_in_build_dir default
+	if use doc ; then
+		cd docs || die
+		sphinx-build -b html -d _build/doctrees   . _build/html
+	fi
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	nosetests -w ${PN} || die
+}
+
+python_install_all() {
+	use doc && local HTML_DOCS=( docs/_build/html/. )
+
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+}