diff --git a/dev-python/httpcore/Manifest b/dev-python/httpcore/Manifest
index 60b92b6aaf..9fc05bcad0 100644
--- a/dev-python/httpcore/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/httpcore/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST httpcore-0.7.0.tar.gz 27932 BLAKE2B f3258a9f83a37bcf62422c6f6c5a911712afa1038378ef64aeda45c9b3e700d0e809e3526f2bc33633ce4dc827465d99298597a8b26b6cb13696f9663fcd5a87 SHA512 f5419ebbe6ff42e782bea127ca778de1d42637a15e0152d69e6b58ca7e3687d560a4b132781390a853595ec7d18a0fa567d5b752debbb7be7f5cc822a5eac3fd
+DIST httpcore-0.9.0.tar.gz 35349 BLAKE2B 8d543a9b8c0298a0c558ae0045dec82bdf3267acd1d683339a70fb5b8807a5c4600963a9b6c2634081f0d2c8a85015124d3ebdc58250f8a8e67c40d5a3a93d10 SHA512 b4369b8d9581521f68842431513c836ca6b2e08da54342fb7530f68e8e3bb906868858943243945c7591da175f760fcc291d2cba50b1cdb939f34bca962c80fc
diff --git a/dev-python/httpcore/httpcore-0.9.0.ebuild b/dev-python/httpcore/httpcore-0.9.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7e0dad5a1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/httpcore/httpcore-0.9.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6,7} )
+
+DOCBUILDER="mkdocs"
+DOCDEPEND="dev-python/mkdocs-material"
+AUTODOC=1
+
+inherit distutils-r1 docs
+
+DESCRIPTION="A minimal HTTP client"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/encode/httpcore
+	https://pypi.org/project/httpcore
+"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/encode/${PN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+# Temporary failure in name resolution
+# requires masked mitmproxy
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/h11[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/hyper-h2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/sniffio[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/trio[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+DEPEND="
+	${RDEPEND}
+	test? (
+		dev-python/autoflake[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/black[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/isort[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/mypy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest-asyncio[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest-trio[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest