diff --git a/dev-python/b2sdk/Manifest b/dev-python/b2sdk/Manifest
index 459ce72f77..5fa9af4893 100644
--- a/dev-python/b2sdk/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/b2sdk/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST b2sdk-2.3.0.tar.gz 390949 BLAKE2B e14c9fc56b7ed66350b8d73456dd50b0f6fdb40d7a6fe73cf7950afcb25bb5257a63bb361d8cbca99116b4999a2b0195967b4e08aff5ca9aaf5c16e4b4b532eb SHA512 29ba07581d0e587b413396f128d7fe14f8ac25ea0553eef69e1c428823690974d9373db727321f9838886a07946c36defdd5bae24d31266751d6b1a2f05968c6
+DIST b2sdk-2.8.1.tar.gz 404058 BLAKE2B 69a74d995a7ff91f252676edfbe274e6239ec70f95ccaf5f357fd13f482dea433074b471bd06fc1ee7f88bdc964d3dd5571441491dcfa333f8101eeb8b9b3ad8 SHA512 20cc8b4f28f010588965a5ca6300b41d914ecdba57f28ab0719c4ad52293d41e5c62648a178a5202614cdc65f22a9e48c5dd966a682daa98be07fdb04235f318
diff --git a/dev-python/b2sdk/b2sdk-2.8.1.ebuild b/dev-python/b2sdk/b2sdk-2.8.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8e70de4f50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/b2sdk/b2sdk-2.8.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# Copyright 2021-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517="pdm-backend"
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..13} )
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="The client library for BackBlaze's B2 product"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/Backblaze/b2-sdk-python"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/Backblaze/b2-sdk-python/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/b2-sdk-python-${PV}"
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+export PDM_BUILD_SCM_VERSION=${PV}
+
+RDEPEND="
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		>=dev-python/annotated-types-0.7.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/logfury-1.0.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/requests-2.9.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/typing-extensions-4.7.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	')
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+# tqdm dependency is temporary, see
+# https://github.com/Backblaze/b2-sdk-python/issues/489
+BDEPEND+=" test? (
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		>=dev-python/pytest-mock-3.6.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest-lazy-fixtures[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/tqdm-4.66.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	')
+)"
+
+# These tests seem to require some b2 authentication (they're integration tests
+# so this is not unreasonable)
+EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
+	# These integration tests require an actual connection to backblaze, which
+	# can't typically work in the sandbox
+	test/integration
+)