diff --git a/dev-libs/pegtl/Manifest b/dev-libs/pegtl/Manifest
index 49db8645ceed0..043a337ea3a1a 100644
--- a/dev-libs/pegtl/Manifest
+++ b/dev-libs/pegtl/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST pegtl-1.3.1.tar.gz 67183 SHA256 34201d56284a449c72798a0536020c6b46684c371a0a886f4c3c586c9372e9bc SHA512 6655be7806112878e2da00916b348c28939bc96e2a317eb00089be341fd5306ce5a1388ca5dbba21bcd7be2d6c24e3964b6a730031a16a7dd8ef6ec6acd6899e WHIRLPOOL b5582ac29ad6c1b24ee8f9c4c525c8c944fbe9e8d38a45353ae01574c479a2f70a0ac75271e58cc6332780594224524fc5dca7f36fa170f2b5b283bcb3728280
+DIST pegtl-2.0_pre1.tar.gz 146966 SHA256 25708e0553ce8c95b5cd8dd7f3fbe53859dfaacf83fb174e6d247d72d30f232e SHA512 180bd8b44ccfe406c818af6b3f5f22eb4cfc7bea6043af5141c6c5ed9b2770624326e67d6dfc47a22aaee3697e5cf1d2744d0a3d3d01a4ce47457189f2b19839 WHIRLPOOL eed51d7c090cfab6b90566a30f20ee36873987b9dc41a1a3c5976106ff1e989078dfd9e6d9abe7511e6c8a94c88d5c75a63af2cf68fc2981ed3b5467c14b9d99
diff --git a/dev-libs/pegtl/pegtl-2.0_pre1.ebuild b/dev-libs/pegtl/pegtl-2.0_pre1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..30237ac2126aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/pegtl/pegtl-2.0_pre1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+inherit cmake-utils vcs-snapshot
+
+COMMIT="bce83a6c7928c4cc8f9a5e18efbca40d18394d32"
+DESCRIPTION="header-only library for creating parsers according to Parsing Expression Grammar"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/taocpp/PEGTL"
+SRC_URI="${HOMEPAGE}/archive/${COMMIT}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="test"
+
+DEPEND=""
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"