diff --git a/gui-wm/niri/Manifest b/gui-wm/niri/Manifest
index f1fb7a8cdc..a0ca0c7ef3 100644
--- a/gui-wm/niri/Manifest
+++ b/gui-wm/niri/Manifest
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@ DIST niri-0.1.10.1-vendored-dependencies.tar.xz 53928792 BLAKE2B 28eb1d090b12f8b
 DIST niri-0.1.10.1.tar.gz 429116 BLAKE2B 394cce3c11d19ef65d450a0e402e3c97affdff798340bb37aba90ea9b49c4cb5e7417873bd0e66bafb2ff035d71ddfca14fb91a86aa997dc23534bd1eff48035 SHA512 ba816350bad30debcb961d6c516c96a0a732621e78e08f7f04bbf3bee46cb463318a59acf532660288022a247cfcd636d59159b66fd01c1c702d58f8ddf44e6a
 DIST niri-0.1.9-vendored-dependencies.tar.xz 52231744 BLAKE2B c9b7a1a508f273a59219437c644bc954398277ddec772c53dc35556736244b5230ab1a0aa9e31f9b418215d634b05565e1c3331f882a6616e4036d29892a29d3 SHA512 88db732c9d2c81e4285ce0e67ef1c4778367e4ff1540b43d7922b85add199c6f2f29e03d1bc78d321f79684bd6fd0ca3b06533491a5b02cf4872e5dd661a93d2
 DIST niri-0.1.9.tar.gz 409640 BLAKE2B 86caa9f2b9a468c5aef8041f902bbbd252200ab2fda4da5bf9d0997d61014b8f99336dd2b0579cf754d188ce51dfbcee0d83f413d8a10dba451c104a69f73ca0 SHA512 7436ad537b6f4e2d0b05731d94bf02594310526843083a175c061327958d7673d19ec601732969f9910c4e41b97be64a04d2a1eac3c7ec19c4d71a31fdad8d6c
+DIST niri-25.01-vendored-dependencies.tar.xz 47572184 BLAKE2B d8675c7f98f43fe34ff0237b78ae772296015ff28509960b87aa828937bf541fbfeb23cadaf869bfe128fbeff8d16f362e8967a124b996cea2ed0a53036480cb SHA512 a498d667e65175190e5d60edcdb4b11defd34e76644b29f14f01dd31035ac2dc4dfa1962afa57e18d1a06c775c3e6302c3e5cbb6b1fdb3980b148c9912a1ee14
+DIST niri-25.01.tar.gz 572739 BLAKE2B b8d1b1919cc5568b38ffae225a815669dacf8fd5a9d3d6f4e3083f90e4a0ed811ffdf718166ca850655d679af428c7f4067a4973802ecdeb1e580351d2f796d9 SHA512 5c555f4410659a4301151a58938cc9880a9a244af138157c0be0fb38f0e82d20e6fccccad7e47ef515d3aaa0f7ddeef5088adad3f8d0be1a99a89f822c8b7a66
diff --git a/gui-wm/niri/niri-25.01.ebuild b/gui-wm/niri/niri-25.01.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6244d4f15f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gui-wm/niri/niri-25.01.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+# Copyright 2024-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+LLVM_COMPAT=( {16..19} )
+RUST_MIN_VER="1.80.0"
+
+# used for version string
+export NIRI_BUILD_COMMIT="e05bc26"
+
+inherit cargo llvm-r2 systemd
+
+DESCRIPTION="Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz
+	https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}-vendored-dependencies.tar.xz
+"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3+"
+# Dependent crate licenses
+LICENSE+="
+	Apache-2.0 Apache-2.0-with-LLVM-exceptions BSD-2 BSD ISC MIT MPL-2.0
+	Unicode-3.0 Unicode-DFS-2016
+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="+dbus screencast systemd"
+REQUIRED_USE="
+	screencast? ( dbus )
+	systemd? ( dbus )
+"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-libs/glib:2
+	dev-libs/libinput:=
+	dev-libs/wayland
+	media-libs/libdisplay-info:=
+	media-libs/mesa
+	sys-auth/seatd:=
+	virtual/libudev:=
+	x11-libs/cairo
+	x11-libs/libxkbcommon
+	x11-libs/pango
+	x11-libs/pixman
+	screencast? (
+		media-video/pipewire:=
+	)
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+# libclang is required for bindgen
+BDEPEND="
+	screencast? ( $(llvm_gen_dep 'llvm-core/clang:${LLVM_SLOT}') )
+"
+
+ECARGO_VENDOR="${WORKDIR}/vendor"
+
+QA_FLAGS_IGNORED="usr/bin/niri"
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	llvm-r2_pkg_setup
+	rust_pkg_setup
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	sed -i 's/git = "[^ ]*"/version = "*"/' Cargo.toml || die
+	default
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	local myfeatures=(
+		$(usev dbus)
+		$(usev screencast xdp-gnome-screencast)
+		$(usev systemd)
+	)
+	cargo_src_configure --no-default-features
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	cargo_src_install
+
+	dobin resources/niri-session
+	systemd_douserunit resources/niri{.service,-shutdown.target}
+
+	insinto /usr/share/wayland-sessions
+	doins resources/niri.desktop
+
+	insinto /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal
+	doins resources/niri-portals.conf
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	# tests create a wayland socket in the xdg runtime dir
+	export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="${T}/xdg"
+	mkdir "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}" || die
+	chmod 0700 "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}" || die
+
+	# tests might fail when executed in parallel
+	# https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/issues/953
+	export RAYON_NUM_THREADS=1
+
+	cargo_src_test
+}