diff --git a/app-shells/loksh/Manifest b/app-shells/loksh/Manifest
index 08b49cf1c9d49..283be716f1a56 100644
--- a/app-shells/loksh/Manifest
+++ b/app-shells/loksh/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 DIST loksh-6.8.1.tar.xz 210424 BLAKE2B e02c51bbf3679c1c81ba66207576758f035bd2b666ceabdcdea6ec8cffb1dba7da2d4f4e812004ccfdb148f2615e239b3bee98e23f68a4e82b7bb364ca6b4e4e SHA512 e771e9bb91bf7ca11a41b5af71d6d62eec8205d111513461d20b7aeb029e9457868598508fbe7395c860f12a9dc8eff47f8ed913e5701ae5974777f7caffb861
 DIST loksh-6.8.tar.xz 210440 BLAKE2B 438181e3fa5b95bc15d5cd2d5a42d09d595aefa45b8598532835f5df2464c40c6ebcab8febeee55f20272cbe3acc57f02d1408bf726cc9fc3435b7b35fae6e4a SHA512 bc862c4aa0796b0fde14c5c3067fc48c6325741bf7e62dcd99faa2ed0ddb80a8fcce79819ff599395f88ee8e5958ce4a451f777d0105fd8ea0ec513977d4e715
 DIST loksh-6.9.tar.xz 211408 BLAKE2B a8e1eb0e94b3f76246a4add7f66eae850d2e951994b2d79ce81423047696ab03221cdc7906e2ed46c4b8a8eec1b5b686cd828d9db36eb3d8e7a76f8f8046e12b SHA512 c4f74de049313adc9b0aae378435b9d3b259a6fd050f68b92b33551e3219840101c391f4cac3744deb8d121d9f6738ba66e76e029322303843bcc1b677bd3e9a
+DIST loksh-7.0.tar.xz 211536 BLAKE2B 7633b89f6f3659cbe714f9dc3ab5b1a8a537d7ddf47bf34ee79617e4a3aa4238067d04be715b6abc2ce37212edb40e841006ec1e2b8e560236075eec364250f6 SHA512 d6eb0e0a639afb79b0d7df85477ded0d48d3ad27dbbd2068c24b81705000501c4542034586222a490a49443da36e7d1c64b5d714c94f942f507a14b89a0c389e
diff --git a/app-shells/loksh/loksh-7.0.ebuild b/app-shells/loksh/loksh-7.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..3cd2456e4dc2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-shells/loksh/loksh-7.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit meson
+
+DESCRIPTION="Linux port of OpenBSD's ksh"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/dimkr/loksh"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/dimkr/loksh/releases/download/${PV}/${P}.tar.xz"
+
+LICENSE="public-domain"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~x86"
+
+DEPEND="sys-libs/ncurses:="
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+	!app-shells/ksh
+"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	sed -i "/install_dir/s@loksh@${PF}@" meson.build || die
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	# we want it as /bin/ksh
+	meson_src_configure --bindir=../bin
+}