diff --git a/www-client/chawan/Manifest b/www-client/chawan/Manifest
index 38212b5045..828b59d041 100644
--- a/www-client/chawan/Manifest
+++ b/www-client/chawan/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST chawan-0.4.1.tar.gz 3695327 BLAKE2B 54bc628574cf98d004db962b8dc5cda5380a25bb4e85765ae3504bf2036577f4f41c0bd4407f86f6d48bfa3ba652f8c0c832d4ff644fd69bf0c6d56a2619a766 SHA512 64e95eb1382202ffdc43569cee0472afed92b5acd05f39020a3f1f1c0fa0038e8ce4450041d22892b75153ec66f2dd13baa4606acfbe767c811c6f704c3c152c
 DIST chawan-0.4.2.tar.gz 3695981 BLAKE2B ac6d7a066eafda5bad0fe6566fd2ac50d5af9e8bbf2ffe47a7ba012aa6f97a67d09a9e38fb57d912ac05c4906bd388b724848ac9f40941ba5b2d132f84deb8f9 SHA512 05383f988d9c8a574b26a5e3760b2a29f99b97c4514e3c20a249b1d6e1da25031efd04289f0105a818addee536bd1eeb3bfc568e6a634ac93faff836019b2c73
+DIST chawan-0.4.3.tar.gz 3697336 BLAKE2B 2a700149aeb738c10981f7d2039a9f138586cb6659306fe07b762f5dc59f5faa60a0557f6b58ad0009b48027335b52c101b6b4f4c0583e8c68449894b2ddf4c8 SHA512 54a5111148d64b4a7f7703621ad46f60b69c489c51394ce4382e1ea6e51d4d39a5e904a30b779446b774b025619169d252ffb92e5d9d3de39cc08c2b3c372557
diff --git a/www-client/chawan/chawan-0.4.3.ebuild b/www-client/chawan/chawan-0.4.3.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dc6ddaccf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www-client/chawan/chawan-0.4.3.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=9
+
+inherit toolchain-funcs multiprocessing
+
+DESCRIPTION="TUI web browser; supports CSS, images, JavaScript, and multiple web protocols"
+HOMEPAGE="https://chawan.net"
+
+if [[ "${PV}" == 9999 ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://git.sr.ht/~bptato/${PN}"
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://git.sr.ht/~bptato/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+	S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}-v${PV}"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="Unlicense"
+
+SLOT="0"
+
+IUSE="lto"
+
+DEPEND="
+	app-arch/brotli
+	dev-libs/openssl
+	net-libs/libssh2
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-lang/nim
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}/makefile-0.4.3.patch"
+)
+
+src_prepare(){
+	default
+	if use lto; then
+		sed -i -E 's|^FLAGS\s+\+=.+|& -d:lto|' Makefile ||
+		die "Trying to sed the Makefile for lto failed!"
+	fi
+}
+
+src_configure(){
+	# code is mostly copy pasted from the nim_gen_config() function from nim-utils.eclass, modifed a bit to actually
+	# append to the original nim.cfg, instead of replacing it
+	cat >> "${S}"/nim.cfg <<- EOF || die "Failed to append to Nim config"
+		--parallelBuild:"$(get_makeopts_jobs)"
+
+		cc:"gcc"
+		gcc.exe:"$(tc-getCC)"
+		gcc.linkerexe:"$(tc-getCC)"
+		gcc.cpp.exe:"$(tc-getCXX)"
+		gcc.cpp.linkerexe:"$(tc-getCXX)"
+		gcc.options.speed:"${CFLAGS}"
+		gcc.options.size:"${CFLAGS}"
+		gcc.options.debug:"${CFLAGS}"
+		gcc.options.always:"${CPPFLAGS}"
+		gcc.options.linker:"${LDFLAGS}"
+		gcc.cpp.options.speed:"${CXXFLAGS}"
+		gcc.cpp.options.size:"${CXXFLAGS}"
+		gcc.cpp.options.debug:"${CXXFLAGS}"
+		gcc.cpp.options.always:"${CPPFLAGS}"
+		gcc.cpp.options.linker:"${LDFLAGS}"
+		EOF
+	default
+}
diff --git a/www-client/chawan/files/makefile-0.4.3.patch b/www-client/chawan/files/makefile-0.4.3.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b681c11d5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www-client/chawan/files/makefile-0.4.3.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
+index 8f538522..99b550a3 100644
+--- a/Makefile
++++ b/Makefile
+@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ NIMC ?= $(NIM) c
+ OBJDIR ?= .obj
+ OUTDIR ?= target
+ # These paths are quoted in recipes.
+-PREFIX ?= /usr/local
++PREFIX ?= /usr
+ MANPREFIX ?= $(PREFIX)/share/man
+ MANPREFIX1 ?= $(MANPREFIX)/man1
+ MANPREFIX5 ?= $(MANPREFIX)/man5
+@@ -53,17 +53,7 @@ FORCE_POLL_MODE ?= 0
+ chac_flags =
+ 
+ # Nim compiler flags
+-ifeq ($(TARGET),debug)
+-FLAGS += -d:debug --debugger:native
+-CFLAGS += -DDUMP_LEAKS=1
+-else ifeq ($(TARGET),release)
+-chac_flags = -s
+-FLAGS += -d:release -d:strip -d:lto
+-else ifeq ($(TARGET),release0)
+-FLAGS += -d:release --stacktrace:on
+-else ifeq ($(TARGET),release1)
+-FLAGS += -d:release --debugger:native
+-endif
++FLAGS += -d:release
+ 
+ ssl_link = http gemini sftp
+ tohtml_link = gopher2html md2html ansi2html gmi2html dirlist2html img2html