diff --git a/dev-ros/xacro/Manifest b/dev-ros/xacro/Manifest
index d7c6fe4060844..2837399198336 100644
--- a/dev-ros/xacro/Manifest
+++ b/dev-ros/xacro/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST xacro-1.11.1.tar.gz 78665 SHA256 eb60c2590e2a8efc6b3d5321ca38755dbf6ddd951bc567afc307d5de3214df1b SHA512 8e25bf721402eb3611977f2091567d109a02ad7aebc9e76e86760fef969501d9a132d61efbb86452ea117661c60650fce24b79c3c44cb40a145340160f507195 WHIRLPOOL 9fff546ecae00bc83b555f08559d8c02faea4dc3e9b8972c1d14fc75548291728bdafe2592eb0b03dbb75850670d8b15055bf368075eb6c28d946a50d89e6852
 DIST xacro-1.11.2.tar.gz 78752 SHA256 ab4548dc944b6545802c6aacbb53ddbba451bb48dd6cea93d23e46ebabc8ba07 SHA512 44b5decfe93ece0691a214917f9c643db52a8e14e3fdbf236a76da78e1270793a6e6ca41d06639aa982e64c5284baf5abd02138814a52744a5e6c2d2d95996f7 WHIRLPOOL 8ff66642042501726835dc1c01c0a79b91ff3830974e546b411d5a26af71eb2c8fb083fbbcf6e50b8a177753c0e68ad086af100d32a417b4f1b5c381b957ab76
+DIST xacro-1.12.0.tar.gz 78767 SHA256 d23021892248469316eeca7ddf13da5d4243a920e5a41edf820f7789a4165087 SHA512 f6af679942e5ff6d57288df2e9c7896282827420b766e43fc4609b8a633763b7c42bcc69cf3a2afa5d740c6038a5a90da97e7bcf433d3cc47a45a1769fd71d42 WHIRLPOOL 33bdea3c5315656ef09a2621ff96a0f4c5ae17d7f25eb8abd8069bb92d9858c792afeeb56d34b27680e3e3bda5106abef32aba4d120cd16db3fb4686da3661f2
diff --git a/dev-ros/xacro/xacro-1.12.0.ebuild b/dev-ros/xacro/xacro-1.12.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..78e761763db73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-ros/xacro/xacro-1.12.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=5
+
+ROS_REPO_URI="https://github.com/ros/xacro"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
+
+inherit ros-catkin
+
+DESCRIPTION="XML macro language"
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE=""
+
+RDEPEND="dev-ros/roslint[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	test? ( dev-ros/rostest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] dev-python/nose[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+"
+RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-ros/roslaunch[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"