diff --git a/app-doc/doxygen/Manifest b/app-doc/doxygen/Manifest
index 0467e383742a5..617e2dfa6b320 100644
--- a/app-doc/doxygen/Manifest
+++ b/app-doc/doxygen/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST doxygen-1.8.15.src.tar.gz 5097791 BLAKE2B 08903bf06666911df0810ea0a7b86066e7682833b03ae5660094112c5c6506f072c5818185ce8166d09328e62092461acdb4516b58fe9369119f5f6bdd64331a SHA512 a5512e78be66c1591d8ec7e284d5d25c92a97218c79e6fed3c538c723a8dfef4ff7085970bf271a6b639e907157cd4df9fb55d3c975f8d3302fb1012a4d92079
 DIST doxygen-1.8.16.src.tar.gz 5497317 BLAKE2B ec1ba4242bd3ef669f92101044049f10a6e5c2d69f5a7c8eb47915fdc0846ce4758eb8c1ab28ec61635bf36f83049f603f3b70033f7e22be18685cb1d9826462 SHA512 46a0189aa82d5a687bdd99a904f0c061fccca407d15867d14c8c4d13e8b21a8989e7ccd6af30840803b589ed20dd86084a4db880fba0d3bfa1fdcdd8d23e12de
+DIST doxygen-1.8.17.src.tar.gz 5138888 BLAKE2B 79d7d64fe2104f3fc802e9ee8f5fcd13ed4f0e23fe3e8d8013d1724d917d5f4e7d8c2df672e253aa2c8d67e839a6169632ebd87bc281b8ee70d217f486e402f7 SHA512 2fd087d127e301ea48355ea52c9af4f2091df06551cf64da80df81f0758194b296efb1e8d3962867a6a6d2da5a3fc323842f7766a445748005b30097ded30a75
diff --git a/app-doc/doxygen/doxygen-1.8.17.ebuild b/app-doc/doxygen/doxygen-1.8.17.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..d75181643d485
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-doc/doxygen/doxygen-1.8.17.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6,7,8} )
+
+CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR="emake"
+
+inherit cmake-utils eutils python-any-r1
+if [[ ${PV} = *9999* ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen.git"
+	SRC_URI=""
+	KEYWORDS=""
+else
+	SRC_URI="http://doxygen.nl/files/${P}.src.tar.gz"
+	KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
+fi
+
+DESCRIPTION="Documentation system for most programming languages"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.doxygen.org"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE="clang debug doc dot doxysearch latex qt5 sqlite userland_GNU"
+
+RDEPEND="app-text/ghostscript-gpl
+	dev-lang/perl
+	media-libs/libpng:0=
+	virtual/libiconv
+	clang? ( >=sys-devel/clang-4.0.0:= )
+	dot? (
+		media-gfx/graphviz
+		media-libs/freetype
+	)
+	doxysearch? ( dev-libs/xapian:= )
+	latex? (
+		dev-texlive/texlive-bibtexextra
+		dev-texlive/texlive-fontsextra
+		dev-texlive/texlive-fontutils
+		dev-texlive/texlive-latex
+		dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra
+	)
+	qt5? (
+		dev-qt/qtgui:5
+		dev-qt/qtwidgets:5
+		dev-qt/qtxml:5
+	)
+	sqlite? ( dev-db/sqlite:3 )
+	"
+
+REQUIRED_USE="doc? ( latex )"
+
+DEPEND="sys-devel/flex
+	sys-devel/bison
+	doc? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )
+	${RDEPEND}"
+
+# src_test() defaults to make -C testing but there is no such directory (bug #504448)
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-1.8.9.1-empty-line-sigsegv.patch" #454348
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-1.8.16-link_with_pthread.patch"
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-1.8.15-llvm7.patch" #666692
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-1.8.17-ensure_static_support_libraries.patch"
+)
+
+DOCS=( LANGUAGE.HOWTO README.md )
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	use doc && python-any-r1_pkg_setup
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	cmake-utils_src_prepare
+
+	# Ensure we link to -liconv
+	if use elibc_FreeBSD && has_version dev-libs/libiconv || use elibc_uclibc; then
+		local pro
+		for pro in */*.pro.in */*/*.pro.in; do
+			echo "unix:LIBS += -liconv" >> "${pro}" || die
+		done
+	fi
+
+	# Call dot with -Teps instead of -Tps for EPS generation - bug #282150
+	sed -i -e '/addJob("ps"/ s/"ps"/"eps"/g' src/dot.cpp || die
+
+	# fix pdf doc
+	sed -i.orig -e "s:g_kowal:g kowal:" \
+		doc/maintainers.txt || die
+
+	if is-flagq "-O3" ; then
+		ewarn
+		ewarn "Compiling with -O3 is known to produce incorrectly"
+		ewarn "optimized code which breaks doxygen."
+		ewarn
+		elog
+		elog "Continuing with -O2 instead ..."
+		elog
+		replace-flags "-O3" "-O2"
+	fi
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	local mycmakeargs=(
+		-Duse_libclang=$(usex clang)
+		-Dbuild_doc=$(usex doc)
+		-Dbuild_search=$(usex doxysearch)
+		-Dbuild_wizard=$(usex qt5)
+		-Duse_sqlite3=$(usex sqlite)
+		-DGIT_EXECUTABLE="false"
+		)
+	use doc && mycmakeargs+=(
+		-DDOC_INSTALL_DIR="share/doc/${P}"
+		)
+
+	cmake-utils_src_configure
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	cmake-utils_src_compile
+
+	if use doc; then
+		export VARTEXFONTS="${T}/fonts" # bug #564944
+
+		if ! use dot; then
+			sed -i -e "s/HAVE_DOT               = YES/HAVE_DOT    = NO/" \
+				{Doxyfile,doc/Doxyfile} \
+				|| die "disabling dot failed"
+		fi
+		cmake-utils_src_make -C "${BUILD_DIR}" docs
+	fi
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	cmake-utils_src_install
+}
diff --git a/app-doc/doxygen/files/doxygen-1.8.17-ensure_static_support_libraries.patch b/app-doc/doxygen/files/doxygen-1.8.17-ensure_static_support_libraries.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..285ea16ac96ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-doc/doxygen/files/doxygen-1.8.17-ensure_static_support_libraries.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From d7b0a0ef152312b9242cbbe7405ee49310e7909e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Matthias Maier <tamiko@43-1.org>
+Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2020 11:50:14 -0600
+Subject: [PATCH] CMake: Mark the libmsc library static
+
+With CMake 3.16.4 at least we end up with a shared library and
+subsequent linking fails.
+---
+ libmscgen/CMakeLists.txt | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/libmscgen/CMakeLists.txt b/libmscgen/CMakeLists.txt
+index 079fcfc..fbf3f4f 100644
+--- a/libmscgen/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/libmscgen/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ foreach(lex_file ${LEX_FILES})
+     FLEX_TARGET(${lex_file}        ${lex_file}.l        ${GENERATED_SRC}/${lex_file}.cpp        COMPILE_FLAGS "${LEX_FLAGS}")
+ endforeach()
+ 
+-add_library(mscgen
++add_library(mscgen STATIC
+ gd.c
+ gd_security.c
+ gdfontt.c
+-- 
+2.24.1
+