diff --git a/app-misc/elasticsearch/Manifest b/app-misc/elasticsearch/Manifest
index 28c891fc7a1e6..64efcfebf9fd9 100644
--- a/app-misc/elasticsearch/Manifest
+++ b/app-misc/elasticsearch/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
+DIST elasticsearch-5.6.10.tar.gz 33796721 BLAKE2B 4e9d1d910a70acf32ca63cec811b711f692f3cf32dcec084a07f92d281eed07c067740bb5c5447055a6d0b6126e55a635edcd08c105dc59985db72bcd031a8a5 SHA512 17bd5710cfc3efa455428a79c74e63aacc9b9481d59a0b0df07ad4e4c25ef32dd41b3dbbde464a2801363b6d428a23eb52cc935640ce86bbc4d8a01dca8a1585
 DIST elasticsearch-5.6.9.tar.gz 33794793 BLAKE2B a056443b1f71b3af773b5195147927017456e1c9a6517c549cfe7e4ec70f0ff4ec9363c9ef6376b7b942e82f811cd5927d44eb9f9eb8022a56e54a85b4ba7c46 SHA512 4e61a4c5f79d0439a414f1e9361f855cdb2f79322cf592bad43132605922fb8ded6368b01e05ef6bcbee49911943c2a3b6be5fd6d0900abddfe03c736cca96d6
 DIST elasticsearch-6.2.4.tar.gz 29056810 BLAKE2B 121be27ac1db4fa6bbe285161b3f2b2dd889859b50f46b57b68ed43514568c4aa9629b5ca32edcc2328a6e7245256d64901c8acc8b2dd91337f8ca97b87c46e1 SHA512 9e6c0de8ed0d9e27fdd18ef7bada376af5a8680bb7a4f4d805926da456b349cee731ba90328b5eda5f0e62fa3f00f34646bf1c2b6c662d055f4be338d0690941
diff --git a/app-misc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-5.6.10.ebuild b/app-misc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-5.6.10.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..26cfa98675c0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-misc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-5.6.10.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+inherit systemd user
+
+DESCRIPTION="Open Source, Distributed, RESTful, Search Engine"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch"
+SRC_URI="https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0 BSD-2 LGPL-3 MIT public-domain"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="virtual/jre:1.8"
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	enewgroup ${PN}
+	enewuser ${PN} -1 /bin/bash /usr/share/${PN} ${PN}
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	rm -v bin/*.{bat,exe} LICENSE.txt || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	keepdir /etc/${PN}
+	keepdir /etc/${PN}/scripts
+
+	insinto /etc/${PN}
+	doins -r config/.
+	rm -rv config || die
+
+	insinto /usr/share/${PN}
+	doins -r .
+
+	exeinto /usr/share/${PN}/bin
+	doexe "${FILESDIR}/elasticsearch-systemd-pre-exec"
+
+	chmod +x "${ED}"/usr/share/${PN}/bin/* || die
+
+	keepdir /var/{lib,log}/${PN}
+	fowners ${PN}:${PN} /var/{lib,log}/${PN}
+	fperms 0750 /var/{lib,log}/${PN}
+	dodir /usr/share/${PN}/plugins
+
+	insinto /etc/sysctl.d
+	newins "${FILESDIR}/${PN}.sysctl.d" ${PN}.conf
+
+	newconfd "${FILESDIR}/${PN}.conf.2" ${PN}
+	newinitd "${FILESDIR}/${PN}.init.2" ${PN}
+
+	systemd_newtmpfilesd "${FILESDIR}/${PN}.tmpfiles.d" ${PN}.conf
+	systemd_newunit "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}.service ${PN}.service
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	elog
+	elog "You may create multiple instances of ${PN} by"
+	elog "symlinking the init script:"
+	elog "ln -sf /etc/init.d/${PN} /etc/init.d/${PN}.instance"
+	elog
+	elog "Please make sure you put elasticsearch.yml, log4j2.properties and scripts"
+	elog "from /etc/elasticsearch into the configuration directory of the instance:"
+	elog "/etc/${PN}/instance"
+	elog
+}