diff --git a/gui-apps/noctalia/Manifest b/gui-apps/noctalia/Manifest
index 4ff6e28e57..b9eb373571 100644
--- a/gui-apps/noctalia/Manifest
+++ b/gui-apps/noctalia/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST noctalia-5.0.0_beta1.tar.gz 5185610 BLAKE2B b5fbb732af28625493e075575adc10c423d3bab54f94ca143af255bdae5f8efcd43f4e10ad999969647e38f9f860149c3a40a336c4306410f7e18582e80feeba SHA512 88a8d6fcf080ee798bf6e606d5cf701d09b0be1cbcd22fc663c8942071e99eb74e3dd7ebe2f9747700390f5dfddfbfa04c88d987982ff4ed0d7d75e55b5447fc
+DIST noctalia-5.0.0_beta2.tar.gz 4915967 BLAKE2B 7aeeb0fdcefeeb57f45bb9600f6eea76d15206c7a11a8bd05afccce690678994f1c05929c42dfc8c4ebad9f18eba52ba6646a6789654f3910e82f0a0753166d2 SHA512 48d0ad096a7f3b96b40003a8c02260e2737c62dde9abf155e875ad32c83dc79522916723e63f65efbcbb5d3b20877aa28593723956d46ff1b996556db6534d6c
 DIST noctalia-v4.7.7.tar.gz 25414718 BLAKE2B a8af942e0b746d8fc52a0e979aab27e1ebd91190ec71924b519d56d5224a560e2edaf9c64c51768d68cb791d70d03c7ba5572fec1d1fa38f3244fd698189d89c SHA512 7f1ccdd6180e40ce1e898688f93aab348d327e8b46a90e1a193a73f00468fb7ae4dd2655588006da7774ccace4675853cb05dcd3cee540a7c5bbedf57da202c2
diff --git a/gui-apps/noctalia/noctalia-5.0.0_beta2.ebuild b/gui-apps/noctalia/noctalia-5.0.0_beta2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..41dc0f39c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gui-apps/noctalia/noctalia-5.0.0_beta2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit meson optfeature xdg
+
+MY_PV="${PV/_/-}"
+MY_P="${PN}-${MY_PV}"
+
+DESCRIPTION="A lightweight Wayland shell and bar built directly on Wayland + OpenGL ES"
+HOMEPAGE="https://noctalia.dev/ https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia"
+
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia/archive/v${MY_PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+
+IUSE="+jemalloc"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-cpp/nlohmann_json
+	dev-cpp/sdbus-c++
+	dev-cpp/tomlplusplus
+	dev-libs/glib:2
+	jemalloc? ( dev-libs/jemalloc:= )
+	dev-libs/libxml2
+	dev-libs/md4c
+	dev-libs/stb
+	dev-libs/wayland
+	gnome-base/librsvg:2
+	media-libs/fontconfig
+	media-libs/freetype
+	media-libs/libwebp
+	media-libs/mesa
+	media-video/pipewire
+	media-video/wireplumber
+	net-misc/curl
+	sci-libs/libqalculate
+	sys-auth/polkit
+	sys-libs/pam
+	virtual/opengl
+	x11-libs/cairo[glib]
+	x11-libs/libxkbcommon
+	x11-libs/pango
+"
+
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-libs/wayland
+	dev-libs/wayland-protocols
+	dev-util/wayland-scanner
+"
+
+DOCS=( {README,CREDITS}.md example.toml )
+
+src_configure() {
+	local emesonargs=(
+		$(meson_feature jemalloc)
+	)
+	meson_src_configure
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	xdg_pkg_postinst
+
+	optfeature "external display brightness control" app-misc/ddcutil
+	optfeature "hardware-accelerated screen recording" media-video/gpu-screen-recorder
+}
diff --git a/gui-apps/noctalia/noctalia-9999.ebuild b/gui-apps/noctalia/noctalia-9999.ebuild
index aaf2b02b1b..7fe8f6aef5 100644
--- a/gui-apps/noctalia/noctalia-9999.ebuild
+++ b/gui-apps/noctalia/noctalia-9999.ebuild
@@ -55,10 +55,6 @@ DOCS=( {README,CREDITS}.md example.toml )
 src_configure() {
 	local emesonargs=(
 		$(meson_feature jemalloc)
-		-Dsystem_md4c=true
-		-Dsystem_tomlplusplus=true
-		-Dsystem_nlohmann_json=true
-		-Dstb_headers=/usr/include/stb
 	)
 	meson_src_configure
 }