diff --git a/media-libs/harfbuzz/Manifest b/media-libs/harfbuzz/Manifest
index 4943274899702..72a783752fb3b 100644
--- a/media-libs/harfbuzz/Manifest
+++ b/media-libs/harfbuzz/Manifest
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ DIST harfbuzz-1.9.0.tar.bz2 3870586 BLAKE2B 53aa631145662fc0fa1bb80e6b438de7d68d
 DIST harfbuzz-2.0.2.tar.bz2 4322171 BLAKE2B c844a623de5c2be7b6fb4a2cf0d38e689a6e639e25ece971646963acbdb10be05b82c4faea33688b1a3edfda4c3fe45b97e5ef87d7ca6d9776268b43ef23a7ee SHA512 4cb605c47617dd06d4a2e8ae01e44969f5addacee47ef5212442645c6229298d5080f85b0aca6a2fbedfd2007c679acad6a4b3e9389df1b3a6232bf6ef961577
 DIST harfbuzz-2.1.1.tar.bz2 4386396 BLAKE2B 9717a15fccc557b795cfd2462358b6659c57bd052976b2660b61d76a858b3df12b00ee8d824c30d4675261e2b30fb79ae3c14c98bfad3d5cfcc67fcd0b1ef44e SHA512 c3fc46eaeb8c02594e2430f853b6eebb762072638e3113e27ff9b5caefce2c06534e8056d57f35d87df6dbb1027cbc0c1a08f914dec7c6a715c3f0abc0a18933
 DIST harfbuzz-2.1.3.tar.bz2 4429069 BLAKE2B d00b5e4f83e9e4b8032cd4f0a8c00d3f88176118458026de69a68f1932bf437358dcd0ecea89f40a4f610816b1709f3b0784c9a619141fa459297754d934f42d SHA512 9bf5f7b857424037a3b3ea5c286e6ba8440c265fa663cf6b6c22cc08d36d84badfed8bdc46816ad982fc810677ebecccdb669ea98a021207e1858c8c355dbf19
+DIST harfbuzz-2.2.0.tar.bz2 4506619 BLAKE2B e2ff32f4490e408a7f67b4e1dd12f266e31a8b58f4960643be45ac9574ce20da8f26e0d7261a9710114621b7f6928df030fa30c3a7672ab5e2b9d1b5c0369d2d SHA512 5e8f35c0d7634afc6f623a91d56bfde46b2a1030d439e5dec196001d49a58e409a1bf66c7f9c15a04e030dab4fe2fe2c928061839b1e985459d4f8379b8a0818
diff --git a/media-libs/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-2.2.0.ebuild b/media-libs/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-2.2.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..85491d783cd91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media-libs/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-2.2.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
+
+inherit flag-o-matic libtool multilib-minimal python-any-r1 xdg-utils
+
+DESCRIPTION="An OpenType text shaping engine"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz"
+
+if [[ ${PV} = 9999 ]] ; then
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/harfbuzz.git"
+	inherit git-r3 autotools
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/${PN}/release/${P}.tar.bz2"
+	KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~x64-solaris"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="Old-MIT ISC icu"
+SLOT="0/0.9.18" # 0.9.18 introduced the harfbuzz-icu split; bug #472416
+
+IUSE="+cairo debug fontconfig +glib +graphite icu +introspection static-libs test +truetype"
+REQUIRED_USE="introspection? ( glib )"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	cairo? ( x11-libs/cairo:= )
+	fontconfig? ( media-libs/fontconfig:1.0[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
+	glib? ( >=dev-libs/glib-2.38:2[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
+	graphite? ( >=media-gfx/graphite2-1.2.1:=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
+	icu? ( >=dev-libs/icu-51.2-r1:=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
+	introspection? ( >=dev-libs/gobject-introspection-1.34:= )
+	truetype? ( >=media-libs/freetype-2.5.0.1:2=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-util/gtk-doc-am
+	test? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+"
+# eautoreconf requires gobject-introspection-common
+# ragel needed if regenerating *.hh files from *.rl
+if [[ ${PV} = 9999 ]] ; then
+	DEPEND+="
+		>=dev-libs/gobject-introspection-common-1.34
+		dev-util/ragel
+	"
+fi
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	use test && python-any-r1_pkg_setup
+	if ! use debug ; then
+		append-cppflags -DHB_NDEBUG
+	fi
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	xdg_environment_reset
+
+	if [[ ${CHOST} == *-darwin* || ${CHOST} == *-solaris* ]] ; then
+		# on Darwin/Solaris we need to link with g++, like automake defaults
+		# to, but overridden by upstream because on Linux this is not
+		# necessary, bug #449126
+		sed -i \
+			-e 's/\<LINK\>/CXXLINK/' \
+			src/Makefile.am || die
+		sed -i \
+			-e '/libharfbuzz_la_LINK = /s/\<LINK\>/CXXLINK/' \
+			src/Makefile.in || die
+		sed -i \
+			-e '/AM_V_CCLD/s/\<LINK\>/CXXLINK/' \
+			test/api/Makefile.in || die
+	fi
+
+	[[ ${PV} == 9999 ]] && eautoreconf
+	elibtoolize # for Solaris
+
+	# bug 618772
+	append-cxxflags -std=c++14
+}
+
+multilib_src_configure() {
+	# harfbuzz-gobject only used for instrospection, bug #535852
+	local myeconfargs=(
+		--without-coretext
+		--without-uniscribe
+		$(use_enable static-libs static)
+		$(multilib_native_use_with cairo)
+		$(use_with fontconfig)
+		$(use_with glib)
+		$(use_with introspection gobject)
+		$(use_with graphite graphite2)
+		$(use_with icu)
+		$(multilib_native_use_enable introspection)
+		$(use_with truetype freetype)
+	)
+	ECONF_SOURCE="${S}" econf "${myeconfargs[@]}"
+
+	if multilib_is_native_abi; then
+		ln -s "${S}"/docs/html docs/html || die
+	fi
+}
+
+multilib_src_install_all() {
+	einstalldocs
+	find "${ED}" -name "*.la" -delete || die
+}