diff --git a/app-admin/systemrescuecd-x86/Manifest b/app-admin/systemrescuecd-x86/Manifest
index bc0615e30a231..fa5fe331e43d7 100644
--- a/app-admin/systemrescuecd-x86/Manifest
+++ b/app-admin/systemrescuecd-x86/Manifest
@@ -32,3 +32,4 @@ DIST systemrescuecd-x86-5.1.2.iso 523479040 BLAKE2B abf6f1e3e05e382b48dcfd4ecde9
 DIST systemrescuecd-x86-5.2.0.iso 569669632 BLAKE2B fe31a68df650b46bd875b91c643c8f1daaa60042ea6c59ac452bb99a2792dcdcee62f1b60c329a70c95689af22c1a0fc52a966631af347258d665f55d2f6d8c0 SHA512 42da80a419aa27bea891339dc163a62bff8ba34d74c202a7fd0317592e8870a71ddc7fa9e9ded5e9d2f75dc36ec8417673074ffde60ea472815405456e34876c
 DIST systemrescuecd-x86-5.2.1.iso 570523648 BLAKE2B 9bb6b2ff7b9930f658baddbf60ef89e86171febcfb48eb0a6ce1bfea8fd3348773a9da948370f9f310dd0e992c40aa64a4ef1442f5cd7f408f847d147074cf1f SHA512 6820f079c9e97ac0d383ed9096a120e7e31771e1d41465f4cf7f5db36a7cb83ccfaae5c5e561181c3b3cb169d4cc4a9a6904a707ecde06a6de4f2456d2a658e4
 DIST systemrescuecd-x86-5.2.2.iso 572006400 BLAKE2B 2cc95acc529ae8e0525664ffbdfefaf6e4513e8135fa6af120121b0b7930b0203bd17d5d70ccafacfe0064bb8615f45aa22b6e6e3fcee8a005a0315fd9b5cf62 SHA512 7dd1ccd63775e35f6589808416468c4a9314f4a7a5d0cb1f2bc34ffb9eef3a450b0da244dfc9e325d828c39404c0cdcce27cc990eade33762c17a1e32f8db9b5
+DIST systemrescuecd-x86-5.3.0.iso 607547392 BLAKE2B 92aa82e54794adc1705111776b4df21bd39f96bdbed1c6e05bb24b01fd1a12d92fb1209241289f89adca7885fd441ddd61639d5168978b95dd0784faec65f32a SHA512 082a82a2882b62012944184107b2655de6c89f5a6c26145a3edb2b5a54ff6aad6a4ef43edc0468e62895daf4d5365d2722ffa8bf4f2f8e60f1ee7d9a727b013d
diff --git a/app-admin/systemrescuecd-x86/systemrescuecd-x86-5.3.0.ebuild b/app-admin/systemrescuecd-x86/systemrescuecd-x86-5.3.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7bfc35a7dd273
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-admin/systemrescuecd-x86/systemrescuecd-x86-5.3.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+DESCRIPTION="The .iso image of SystemRescueCD rescue disk, x86 (+ amd64) variant"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.sysresccd.org/"
+# Large ISO mirroring explicitly approved by infra in bug #588766
+SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/systemrescuecd/sysresccd-${PN#*-}/${PV}/${P}.iso"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="${PV}"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="+isohybrid"
+
+DEPEND="isohybrid? ( >=sys-boot/syslinux-4 )"
+
+S=${WORKDIR}
+
+src_install() {
+	insinto "/usr/share/${PN%-*}"
+	doins "${DISTDIR}/${P}.iso"
+
+	if use isohybrid; then
+		set -- isohybrid -u "${ED}usr/share/${PN%-*}/${P}.iso"
+		echo "${@}"
+		"${@}" || die "${*} failed"
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	local f=${EROOT%/}/usr/share/${PN%-*}/${PN}-newest.iso
+
+	# no version newer than ours? we're the newest!
+	if ! has_version ">${CATEGORY}/${PF}"; then
+		ln -f -s -v "${P}.iso" "${f}" || die
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_postrm() {
+	local f=${EROOT%/}/usr/share/${PN%-*}/${PN}-newest.iso
+
+	# if there is no version newer than ours installed
+	if ! has_version ">${CATEGORY}/${PF}"; then
+		# and we are truly and completely uninstalled...
+		if [[ ! ${REPLACED_BY_VERSION} ]]; then
+			# then find an older version to set the symlink to
+			local newest_version=$(best_version "<${CATEGORY}/${PF}")
+
+			if [[ ${newest_version} ]]; then
+				# update the symlink
+				ln -f -s -v "${newest_version%-r*}.iso" "${f}" || die
+			else
+				# last version removed? clean up the symlink
+				rm -v "${f}" || die
+				# and the parent directory
+				rmdir "${f%/*}" || die
+			fi
+		fi
+	fi
+}