diff --git a/app-misc/doublecmd/Manifest b/app-misc/doublecmd/Manifest
index cdeb1af3ed..b38e1025ea 100644
--- a/app-misc/doublecmd/Manifest
+++ b/app-misc/doublecmd/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST doublecmd-1.1.32-src.tar.gz 9652239 BLAKE2B 2ed7b80fed61deac92c24d6ba1c647b3bb2ee64e053dc32d9f2df595f6d72166f42041b2fea6318831565d20f7760594ad065caeb83988bd3d0ca6a7f9fd0fc0 SHA512 63ab0397a1327949558974972129ff405dad2a0de028b9c4d4f45db5343829f61e772f5aef5c75770db1f22ff42f213321b020e0bc96bfc902d8aaeb1c027d72
 DIST doublecmd-1.2.7-src.tar.gz 10065369 BLAKE2B ecb8798fa38ccd1a06c4ca05956552261ed7c678df301b8f1e2ab3d2e984d7db9d502ff0bad8563dcadc6cbd38b400ce112d42b6d4bbaadc3b6992abd1a8dcc9 SHA512 959c4bbd98fd2ca357a0362eda037fd2125869555ddc919b61e23b298c4528261610822e4fe485a51b1d70202af3eaa15054bfbe565b698c1881ef7e84b11231
+DIST doublecmd-1.2.8-src.tar.gz 10066887 BLAKE2B e90398dd27c9097e113a27c4e2ffba065a72b7760ef35c7d18a8a1cbeb0385d0e396d1aae5b746718c37c6db60769fc3f0397e97639e4297115fe7603d4ee9f8 SHA512 55432468baae690e58f3ae90d4a4a6bcd91233aee38225813f833b743d2ff1c19bc1f5d413e411c36a9480254d90336a75da7655daf857156cd3105de2586e7b
diff --git a/app-misc/doublecmd/doublecmd-1.2.8.ebuild b/app-misc/doublecmd/doublecmd-1.2.8.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8a228653ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-misc/doublecmd/doublecmd-1.2.8.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+# Copyright 2016-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit xdg
+
+DESCRIPTION="Cross Platform file manager"
+HOMEPAGE="https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/ https://github.com/doublecmd/doublecmd"
+SRC_URI="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/${PN}/${P}-src.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2+ LGPL-2.1+ LGPL-3 MPL-1.1 Boost-1.0 BZIP2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	!app-misc/doublecmd-bin
+	dev-libs/glib:2
+	sys-apps/dbus
+	x11-libs/libX11
+	dev-libs/libqt6pas:=
+	dev-libs/wayland
+"
+
+DEPEND="
+	${RDEPEND}
+	sys-libs/ncurses
+"
+
+BDEPEND="
+	>=dev-lang/lazarus-3.0[qt6]
+"
+
+PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}"/00-lazbuild-command.patch )
+
+# Built with fpc, does not respect anything
+QA_FLAGS_IGNORED=".*"
+QA_PRESTRIPPED=".*"
+
+src_compile(){
+	./build.sh release qt6 || die
+}
+
+src_install(){
+	./install/linux/install.sh --install-prefix="${D}" || die
+	dodoc doc/README.txt doc/changelog.txt
+	rm -r "${ED}"/usr/share/doublecmd/doc || die
+	dosym -r /usr/share/doc/"${PF}" /usr/share/doublecmd/doc
+}