diff --git a/net-im/gajim/Manifest b/net-im/gajim/Manifest
index 23f269a95..04c126721 100644
--- a/net-im/gajim/Manifest
+++ b/net-im/gajim/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+DIST gajim-0.16.9.tar.bz2 4469275 BLAKE2B 451f09cde9d177932429b9ece900e09c58ac43b5f97cd64cf70e75d13f2261ab52ee35e02e8680c83a5d81d7574bca561532dd1327f1109b0cc872956b1a05f7 SHA512 d8ddae3826bbcd4458b016b3cf6b0472b41db4b9026b300b058d9cef403195e38423ff950fcbf6fed0cdbbb485a274905a9a5945028c4cbb24d1a38c72bf4cbb
 DIST gajim-1.1.3.tar.bz2 8013585 BLAKE2B 7be25380ecfe76ae5e2a7534665688dcca9ff850c12c7a450e8d1f6caab1820a1022750710df0a8a7ae259c5748f55582b272ad83fbdb0560f18e6ab8642bf78 SHA512 18062832f9b9295c7a844c347d5ece4a6db43126d5b58bbf362fdf2f8e082e2241c46dae6d1cbe66ebf2ef19f65618102c3c21fa0079a96fc21511e6e93420ac
diff --git a/net-im/gajim/gajim-0.16.9.ebuild b/net-im/gajim/gajim-0.16.9.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2285e7090
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-im/gajim/gajim-0.16.9.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=5
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
+PYTHON_REQ_USE="sqlite,xml"
+
+AUTOTOOLS_AUTORECONF=true
+
+inherit autotools-utils gnome2-utils python-r1 versionator xdg-utils
+
+MY_PV=${PV/_/-}
+MY_P="${PN}-${MY_PV}"
+
+DESCRIPTION="Jabber client written in PyGTK"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.gajim.org/"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://www.gajim.org/downloads/$(get_version_component_range 1-2)/${MY_P}.tar.bz2"
+#	test? ( https://dev.gentoo.org/~jlec/distfiles/${PN}-tests-${PV}.tar.xz )"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86 ~x86-fbsd"
+IUSE="crypt dbus gnome gnome-keyring idle jingle libnotify networkmanager nls spell +srv test X xhtml zeroconf"
+
+REQUIRED_USE="
+	${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}
+	libnotify? ( dbus )
+	gnome? ( gnome-keyring )
+	zeroconf? ( dbus )"
+
+COMMON_DEPEND="
+	${PYTHON_DEPS}
+	dev-python/pygtk:2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	x11-libs/gtk+:2"
+DEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
+	>=dev-util/intltool-0.40.1
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+	>=sys-devel/gettext-0.17-r1"
+RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
+	dev-python/pyasn1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/pyopenssl-0.14[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/python-nbxmpp-0.6.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	crypt? ( >=dev-python/python-gnupg-0.4.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	dbus? (
+		dev-python/dbus-python[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-libs/dbus-glib
+		libnotify? ( dev-python/notify-python[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+		zeroconf? ( net-dns/avahi[dbus,gtk,python,${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+		)
+	gnome? (
+		dev-python/libgnome-python[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/egg-python[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		)
+	gnome-keyring? ( dev-python/gnome-keyring-python[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	idle? ( x11-libs/libXScrnSaver )
+	jingle? ( net-libs/farstream:0.1[python,${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	networkmanager? (
+			dev-python/dbus-python[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+			net-misc/networkmanager
+		)
+	spell? ( app-text/gtkspell:2 )
+	srv? (
+		|| (
+			dev-python/libasyncns-python[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+			net-dns/bind-tools
+			)
+		)
+	xhtml? ( dev-python/docutils[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )"
+
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}"/${MY_P}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	autotools-utils_src_prepare
+	python_copy_sources
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	configuration() {
+		local myeconfargs=(
+			$(use_enable nls)
+			$(use_with X x)
+			--docdir="/usr/share/doc/${PF}"
+			--libdir="$(python_get_sitedir)"
+			--enable-site-packages
+		)
+		run_in_build_dir autotools-utils_src_configure
+	}
+	python_foreach_impl configuration
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	compilation() {
+		run_in_build_dir autotools-utils_src_compile
+	}
+	python_foreach_impl compilation
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	testing() {
+		run_in_build_dir ${PYTHON} test/runtests.py --verbose 3 || die
+	}
+	python_foreach_impl testing
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	installation() {
+		run_in_build_dir autotools-utils_src_install
+		python_optimize
+	}
+	python_foreach_impl installation
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	gnome2_icon_cache_update
+	xdg_desktop_database_update
+}
+
+pkg_postrm() {
+	gnome2_icon_cache_update
+	xdg_desktop_database_update
+}