diff --git a/app-text/xan/Manifest b/app-text/xan/Manifest
index 4fffb575db..d778708f6a 100644
--- a/app-text/xan/Manifest
+++ b/app-text/xan/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
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 DIST xan-0.60.0.tar.gz 42891796 BLAKE2B 38e16f805c0f7992033d181112541c42952bf3716559a4531b44ec34459c44b7fe8d293265f348b25556a085b7a53dedda85c22e5a7bb16d78b54133494bd018 SHA512 a07954ee451e0bf6bac227670536b80a793a524b14e07e7cb52ce78a166e7f11df7be227694fe51bf386033c541c169e82ae34061510817991e090723e354321
+DIST xan-0.61.0-crates.tar.xz 25059124 BLAKE2B 8b8b371cef2c170785fd36fe5f3e77f16a397a473bd24fdaa40adc5d0b21e4506d67a2ee0c664e933358e9965765b6b240819fb9acfffd0f90bc1519b430cb03 SHA512 4986439d4de5d6ae7410ae8e09dc0f2ca830e3f7bf32dba009d5739372734a218bdc27d8220e02b657e152a70510d849ee2919ce3c835d97b29977be779717c3
+DIST xan-0.61.0.tar.gz 42892548 BLAKE2B 84247986dacb0555f076fc3ce8843cd65a00c3c0bfad7ebf4d78b2ed57310343205caca5b5729063c978ccc4a2cece343ab99f7c747d27d009e1935c661a6257 SHA512 fdd55bf561ba6d8eac5c18ec494a8ded278b9d8321f498a9ebf37dcc2df8353870851b63d796aafaf17862855e0a1b4486bf02a3f21027685b074da55aedd319
diff --git a/app-text/xan/xan-0.61.0.ebuild b/app-text/xan/xan-0.61.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..670c67a809
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-text/xan/xan-0.61.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+# Copyright 2025-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+RUST_MIN_VER="1.87.0"
+
+# Crate list bundled into a single tarball published at
+# https://github.com/vowstar/vowstar-overlay-dist
+CRATES=""
+
+inherit cargo
+
+DESCRIPTION="The CSV magician"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/medialab/xan"
+
+if [[ "${PV}" == *9999* ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/medialab/xan"
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/medialab/xan/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+	SRC_URI+=" https://github.com/vowstar/vowstar-overlay-dist/releases/download/${PN}-${PV}/${PN}-${PV}-crates.tar.xz"
+	SRC_URI+=" ${CARGO_CRATE_URIS}"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+	RESTRICT="mirror"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="|| ( MIT Unlicense )"
+# Dependent crate licenses
+LICENSE+="
+	Apache-2.0 BSD-2 BSD CC0-1.0 GPL-2+ ISC MIT MPL-2.0 Unicode-3.0
+	Unlicense ZLIB
+"
+SLOT="0"
+# apply-crates-fixes start
+RDEPEND="
+	>=app-arch/zstd-1.5.7
+	>=dev-libs/jemalloc-5.3.0
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+# apply-crates-fixes end
+
+QA_FLAGS_IGNORED="usr/bin/xan"
+
+DOCS=( README.md docs )
+
+src_unpack() {
+	if [[ "${PV}" == *9999* ]]; then
+		git-r3_src_unpack
+		cargo_live_src_unpack
+	else
+		cargo_src_unpack
+	fi
+}
+# apply-crates-fixes start
+src_compile() {
+	export ZSTD_SYS_USE_PKG_CONFIG=1 # fix for zstd-sys crate
+	JEMALLOC_OVERRIDE="/usr/$(get_libdir)/libjemalloc.so"
+	export JEMALLOC_OVERRIDE # fix for jemalloc-sys crate
+	cargo_src_compile
+}
+# apply-crates-fixes end
+
+src_install() {
+	cargo_src_install
+	# docs/cookbook ships a pre-compressed sample dataset that would be
+	# installed as an already-compressed file, tripping the QA check for
+	# compressed files in /usr/share/doc (bug 978812).
+	rm "${S}"/docs/cookbook/resources/dataviz.tar.gz || die
+	einstalldocs
+}