diff --git a/app-shells/bash/bash-4.4_p12-r1.ebuild b/app-shells/bash/bash-4.4_p12-r1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..5e54bf0070bad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-shells/bash/bash-4.4_p12-r1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,260 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+inherit flag-o-matic toolchain-funcs multilib prefix
+
+# Official patchlevel
+# See ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-4.4-patches/
+PLEVEL=${PV##*_p}
+MY_PV=${PV/_p*}
+MY_PV=${MY_PV/_/-}
+MY_P=${PN}-${MY_PV}
+is_release() {
+	case ${PV} in
+	*_alpha*|*_beta*|*_rc*) return 1 ;;
+	*) return 0 ;;
+	esac
+}
+[[ ${PV} != *_p* ]] && PLEVEL=0
+patches() {
+	local opt=$1 plevel=${2:-${PLEVEL}} pn=${3:-${PN}} pv=${4:-${MY_PV}}
+	[[ ${plevel} -eq 0 ]] && return 1
+	eval set -- {1..${plevel}}
+	set -- $(printf "${pn}${pv/\.}-%03d " "$@")
+	if [[ ${opt} == -s ]] ; then
+		echo "${@/#/${DISTDIR}/}"
+	else
+		local u
+		for u in ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash mirror://gnu/${pn} ; do
+			printf "${u}/${pn}-${pv}-patches/%s " "$@"
+		done
+	fi
+}
+
+# The version of readline this bash normally ships with.
+READLINE_VER="7.0"
+
+DESCRIPTION="The standard GNU Bourne again shell"
+HOMEPAGE="http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html"
+if is_release ; then
+	SRC_URI="mirror://gnu/bash/${MY_P}.tar.gz $(patches)"
+else
+	SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/${MY_P}.tar.gz"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd"
+IUSE="afs bashlogger examples mem-scramble +net nls plugins +readline"
+
+DEPEND="
+	>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r2:0=
+	readline? ( >=sys-libs/readline-${READLINE_VER}:0= )
+	nls? ( virtual/libintl )
+"
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+	!<sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.7_p1
+	!<sys-apps/paludis-0.26.0_alpha5
+"
+# we only need yacc when the .y files get patched (bash42-005)
+#DEPEND+=" virtual/yacc"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	if is-flag -malign-double ; then #7332
+		eerror "Detected bad CFLAGS '-malign-double'.  Do not use this"
+		eerror "as it breaks LFS (struct stat64) on x86."
+		die "remove -malign-double from your CFLAGS mr ricer"
+	fi
+	if use bashlogger ; then
+		ewarn "The logging patch should ONLY be used in restricted (i.e. honeypot) envs."
+		ewarn "This will log ALL output you enter into the shell, you have been warned."
+	fi
+}
+
+src_unpack() {
+	unpack ${MY_P}.tar.gz
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	# Include official patches
+	[[ ${PLEVEL} -gt 0 ]] && eapply -p0 $(patches -s)
+
+	eapply "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-4.4-jobs_overflow.patch" #644720
+
+	# Clean out local libs so we know we use system ones w/releases.
+	if is_release ; then
+		rm -rf lib/{readline,termcap}/*
+		touch lib/{readline,termcap}/Makefile.in # for config.status
+		sed -ri -e 's:\$[(](RL|HIST)_LIBSRC[)]/[[:alpha:]]*.h::g' Makefile.in || die
+	fi
+
+	# Prefixify hardcoded path names. No-op for non-prefix.
+	hprefixify pathnames.h.in
+
+	# Avoid regenerating docs after patches #407985
+	sed -i -r '/^(HS|RL)USER/s:=.*:=:' doc/Makefile.in || die
+	touch -r . doc/*
+
+	eapply_user
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	local myconf=(
+		--disable-profiling
+		--docdir='$(datarootdir)'/doc/${PF}
+		--htmldir='$(docdir)/html'
+		--with-curses
+		$(use_enable mem-scramble)
+		$(use_enable net net-redirections)
+		$(use_enable readline)
+		$(use_enable readline bang-history)
+		$(use_enable readline history)
+		$(use_with afs)
+		$(use_with mem-scramble bash-malloc)
+	)
+
+	# For descriptions of these, see config-top.h
+	# bashrc/#26952 bash_logout/#90488 ssh/#24762 mktemp/#574426
+	append-cppflags \
+		-DDEFAULT_PATH_VALUE=\'\"${EPREFIX}/usr/local/sbin:${EPREFIX}/usr/local/bin:${EPREFIX}/usr/sbin:${EPREFIX}/usr/bin:${EPREFIX}/sbin:${EPREFIX}/bin\"\' \
+		-DSTANDARD_UTILS_PATH=\'\"${EPREFIX}/bin:${EPREFIX}/usr/bin:${EPREFIX}/sbin:${EPREFIX}/usr/sbin\"\' \
+		-DSYS_BASHRC=\'\"${EPREFIX}/etc/bash/bashrc\"\' \
+		-DSYS_BASH_LOGOUT=\'\"${EPREFIX}/etc/bash/bash_logout\"\' \
+		-DNON_INTERACTIVE_LOGIN_SHELLS \
+		-DSSH_SOURCE_BASHRC \
+		$(use bashlogger && echo -DSYSLOG_HISTORY)
+
+	# Don't even think about building this statically without
+	# reading Bug 7714 first.  If you still build it statically,
+	# don't come crying to us with bugs ;).
+	#use static && export LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -static"
+	use nls || myconf+=( --disable-nls )
+
+	# Historically, we always used the builtin readline, but since
+	# our handling of SONAME upgrades has gotten much more stable
+	# in the PM (and the readline ebuild itself preserves the old
+	# libs during upgrades), linking against the system copy should
+	# be safe.
+	# Exact cached version here doesn't really matter as long as it
+	# is at least what's in the DEPEND up above.
+	export ac_cv_rl_version=${READLINE_VER%%_*}
+
+	# Force linking with system curses ... the bundled termcap lib
+	# sucks bad compared to ncurses.  For the most part, ncurses
+	# is here because readline needs it.  But bash itself calls
+	# ncurses in one or two small places :(.
+
+	if is_release ; then
+		# Use system readline only with released versions.
+		myconf+=( --with-installed-readline=. )
+	fi
+
+	if use plugins; then
+		append-ldflags -Wl,-rpath,/usr/$(get_libdir)/bash
+	else
+		# Disable the plugins logic by hand since bash doesn't
+		# provide a way of doing it.
+		export ac_cv_func_dl{close,open,sym}=no \
+			ac_cv_lib_dl_dlopen=no ac_cv_header_dlfcn_h=no
+		sed -i \
+			-e '/LOCAL_LDFLAGS=/s:-rdynamic::' \
+			configure || die
+	fi
+	tc-export AR #444070
+	econf "${myconf[@]}"
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	emake
+
+	if use plugins ; then
+		emake -C examples/loadables all others
+	fi
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	local d f
+
+	default
+
+	dodir /bin
+	mv "${ED%/}"/usr/bin/bash "${ED%/}"/bin/ || die
+	dosym bash /bin/rbash
+
+	insinto /etc/bash
+	doins "${FILESDIR}"/bash_logout
+	doins "$(prefixify_ro "${FILESDIR}"/bashrc)"
+	keepdir /etc/bash/bashrc.d
+	insinto /etc/skel
+	for f in bash{_logout,_profile,rc} ; do
+		newins "${FILESDIR}"/dot-${f} .${f}
+	done
+
+	local sed_args=(
+		-e "s:#${USERLAND}#@::"
+		-e '/#@/d'
+	)
+	if ! use readline ; then
+		sed_args+=( #432338
+			-e '/^shopt -s histappend/s:^:#:'
+			-e 's:use_color=true:use_color=false:'
+		)
+	fi
+	sed -i \
+		"${sed_args[@]}" \
+		"${ED%/}"/etc/skel/.bashrc \
+		"${ED%/}"/etc/bash/bashrc || die
+
+	if use plugins ; then
+		exeinto /usr/$(get_libdir)/bash
+		doexe $(echo examples/loadables/*.o | sed 's:\.o::g')
+		insinto /usr/include/bash-plugins
+		doins *.h builtins/*.h include/*.h lib/{glob/glob.h,tilde/tilde.h}
+	fi
+
+	if use examples ; then
+		for d in examples/{functions,misc,scripts,startup-files} ; do
+			exeinto /usr/share/doc/${PF}/${d}
+			insinto /usr/share/doc/${PF}/${d}
+			for f in ${d}/* ; do
+				if [[ ${f##*/} != PERMISSION ]] && [[ ${f##*/} != *README ]] ; then
+					doexe ${f}
+				else
+					doins ${f}
+				fi
+			done
+		done
+	fi
+
+	doman doc/*.1
+	newdoc CWRU/changelog ChangeLog
+	dosym bash.info /usr/share/info/bashref.info
+}
+
+pkg_preinst() {
+	if [[ -e ${EROOT}/etc/bashrc ]] && [[ ! -d ${EROOT}/etc/bash ]] ; then
+		mkdir -p "${EROOT}"/etc/bash
+		mv -f "${EROOT}"/etc/bashrc "${EROOT}"/etc/bash/
+	fi
+
+	if [[ -L ${EROOT}/bin/sh ]] ; then
+		# rewrite the symlink to ensure that its mtime changes. having /bin/sh
+		# missing even temporarily causes a fatal error with paludis.
+		local target=$(readlink "${EROOT}"/bin/sh)
+		local tmp=$(emktemp "${EROOT}"/bin)
+		ln -sf "${target}" "${tmp}"
+		mv -f "${tmp}" "${EROOT}"/bin/sh
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	# If /bin/sh does not exist, provide it
+	if [[ ! -e ${EROOT}/bin/sh ]] ; then
+		ln -sf bash "${EROOT}"/bin/sh
+	fi
+}
diff --git a/app-shells/bash/files/bash-4.4-jobs_overflow.patch b/app-shells/bash/files/bash-4.4-jobs_overflow.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8753d62ec6c1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-shells/bash/files/bash-4.4-jobs_overflow.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-12/msg00025.html
+https://bugs.gentoo.org/644720
+
+--- bash-4.4/jobs.c
++++ bash-4.4/jobs.c
+@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@
+   else
+     nsize = bgpids.nalloc;
+ 
+-  while (nsize < js.c_childmax)
++  while (nsize < (ps_index_t)js.c_childmax)
+     nsize *= 2;
+ 
+   if (bgpids.nalloc < js.c_childmax)