diff --git a/gui-apps/nwg-shell/Manifest b/gui-apps/nwg-shell/Manifest
index 9c11f8f31b..c3ca124700 100644
--- a/gui-apps/nwg-shell/Manifest
+++ b/gui-apps/nwg-shell/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST nwg-shell-0.5.29.tar.gz 2181442 BLAKE2B 176ed212e4f049e1486012fcb23f62a23106f2551544e89e99016a94c72543f44d4650a0d3c817226bb89c55d17e79ba3fb8613ddb19c81ebdb21b2e574adb91 SHA512 dc29091b41e19fc816a1bc2052600ce05b8280addb5ea7530c0e4e3c105b727ac4132dc08313b33b8cca8bef3b4269c1e3e78276240d5c08698cc64dfda2981d
 DIST nwg-shell-0.5.30.tar.gz 2181453 BLAKE2B 098aa29678fa9db408de330843e3674c8c0c32b42e426388be090d3e2d4d6e5c8928479242f8b05e783b40dccf51ce3e88262837fb50dc42bde668bb38cc94d1 SHA512 a3a9bac12df18d7eff600825e9dd6188101e23a442f5d3f4ea0bcaf3a80bdbb6ca6521e66a352ec14c45916e7d87dcf5fbdfd2cd0b8c7a311977a495382e51eb
+DIST nwg-shell-0.5.31.tar.gz 2181632 BLAKE2B 173fb14aeeae8c0788ee8b4deb614538128e623032231eb427b9dbdafd3b84d4cbaa8f109adf30c7c382796211cc72385f24d955776f0fee511a719aa572fde4 SHA512 1b26f14f14123dc7c7c48839dfa473c45688f17e2274c00b41f9bbcea9959d871606a88ed3517aa1dcfa22d346b4a9b0369b6c58ba27ba4e119269e0031840d2
diff --git a/gui-apps/nwg-shell/nwg-shell-0.5.31.ebuild b/gui-apps/nwg-shell/nwg-shell-0.5.31.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1beb080d16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gui-apps/nwg-shell/nwg-shell-0.5.31.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..11} )
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-shell/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+DESCRIPTION="libraries an common functions for the nwg-shell project"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-shell"
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	gui-apps/grim
+	gui-apps/swappy
+	gui-apps/slurp
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+python_install_all() {
+	default
+	dobin scripts/*
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	elog "To install nwg-shell for the current user, run"
+	elog "nwg-shell-installer -w (for sway) or"
+	elog "nwg-shell-installer -w -hypr (for hyprland)"
+}