diff --git a/dev-python/docker-py/Manifest b/dev-python/docker-py/Manifest
index 9df1c780b7ceb..7844c34b3d60a 100644
--- a/dev-python/docker-py/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/docker-py/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
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diff --git a/dev-python/docker-py/docker-py-1.8.1.ebuild b/dev-python/docker-py/docker-py-1.8.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..2c9b49851024c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/docker-py/docker-py-1.8.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_3 python3_4 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 vcs-snapshot
+
+MY_PV=${PV//_/-}
+
+DESCRIPTION="Python client for Docker"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/docker/docker-py"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/docker/${PN}/archive/${MY_PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="doc test"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	doc? ( >=dev-python/mkdocs-0.14.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	test? (
+		~dev-python/mock-1.0.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		~dev-python/pytest-2.7.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		~dev-python/pytest-cov-2.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/requests-2.5.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/six-1.4.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/websocket-client-0.32.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '>=dev-python/backports-ssl-match-hostname-3.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' 'python2_7' 'python3_3' 'python3_4' )
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '>=dev-python/ipaddress-1.0.16[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' 'python2_7' )
+"
+
+python_compile_all() {
+	if use doc; then
+		mkdocs build -d 'mkdocs_site' || die "docs failed to build"
+	fi
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	py.test tests/unit/ | die "tests failed under ${EPYTHON}"
+}
+
+python_install_all() {
+	use doc && local HTML_DOCS=( mkdocs_site/. )
+
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+}