diff --git a/dev-python/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-common/Manifest b/dev-python/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-common/Manifest
index 300afb2aed..2c09809ef5 100644
--- a/dev-python/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-common/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-common/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST opentelemetry-python-1.45.0.gh.tar.gz 1715368 BLAKE2B 6a70a94f38df7b038eca1cf815ca93deaf58c94aac0996a24d08a0f9243651dd1e0c8c4f7daf9b1bc6274677ed1519fa0e9e72243fe266765a43fc6d50a4301a SHA512 c05f1fd1f6b2f8de830d2d2bdbaac01c47aa0b4615091f6fd78c39ef7e4aba10c2bd23ef4906e5b9e4ab46b2e55f8321f917c900bb930988d1cdfc85e9a77527
+DIST opentelemetry-python-1.45.1.gh.tar.gz 1716865 BLAKE2B c282a85b0cd5e4df839b26c2da42f9304cac18dc016968ab5c94a385a42e6391a34c5931eea87446547388615632a6fc45d4b54d7e6574e1ee6546357d2d8f28 SHA512 4cc2bd65bad17cdd6322067698c3e8078a96196bdaf6c61e559d3696c7afc9535bc0378de31f7a23eac25b5813dab7272dfa883fa85d57c2207de89b1bfe834b
diff --git a/dev-python/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-common/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-common-0.66_beta1.ebuild b/dev-python/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-common/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-common-0.66_beta1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7a6525ad4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-common/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-common-0.66_beta1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=hatchling
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{12..15} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+# Package follows contrib versioning, but is distributed via the main repo
+MY_PV=1.45.1
+MY_P="opentelemetry-python-${MY_PV}"
+DESCRIPTION="OpenTelemetry OTLP HTTP export utilities"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://opentelemetry.io/
+	https://pypi.org/project/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-common/
+	https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/
+"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/archive/refs/tags/v${MY_PV}.tar.gz
+		-> ${MY_P}.gh.tar.gz
+"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}/exporter/${PN}"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	~dev-python/opentelemetry-sdk-${MY_PV}[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+EPYTEST_PLUGINS=()
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+EPYTEST_IGNORE=(
+	# missing opentelemetry-exporter-http
+	tests/test_http_client.py
+)