diff --git a/media-libs/libexif/Manifest b/media-libs/libexif/Manifest
index 383f8ff3cbf2..c79dac8b7d31 100644
--- a/media-libs/libexif/Manifest
+++ b/media-libs/libexif/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
 DIST libexif-0.6.25.tar.xz 1291276 BLAKE2B 8c9aa7d6b36b7d1a7f66ad9fa62ac4eb2f708f7df9917a6563230de7642e8ae961c41439f5948aece17942f167ada40d3850a63b7bbc5833bc647a12a27a6d46 SHA512 99fc1aa468968cbf2dd69a53ec451d3524b80fb01ad3abe4188d9c295b10812f531271655475bce681558745652a8c8b977e682f240e65e4f7e97992fdbfdcd2
+DIST libexif-0.6.26.tar.xz 1335488 BLAKE2B be8a2cbc554110e899f55f2ceb80bdda19644c16805bf94d632bbfa5f04358e0e945639f1258172e6ac1d648136b5df3b2ed1ec587be194f8d065cf49964c8ef SHA512 944b65d1dfda431f2c8c5179965cb4a501c1524a8383d6d5ab7e1c77da62fa6ac4751b975edcec58948a11debb3a64ee3da3dfe0fa82c499033b434f294f5ff3
+DIST libexif-0.6.26.tar.xz.asc 833 BLAKE2B 4f50f0d0e1290de7bfce0eb921bd97415479ed0b9eef6c946310770f19c8660213796a96a594de6606cb07dd135fdc73b99dd87b1d1155d32955d2029b21938d SHA512 c6655a271403d7d4a30d74f17d2af4a55bb0248b97e43a23bd0d05891dff7de01bbcb1706f8708d330ad5f6831bf9a53e83e97c2ff27665689b60c73e2a33f7e
diff --git a/media-libs/libexif/libexif-0.6.26.ebuild b/media-libs/libexif/libexif-0.6.26.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..488d8a6a4dde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media-libs/libexif/libexif-0.6.26.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+VERIFY_SIG_OPENPGP_KEY_PATH=/usr/share/openpgp-keys/marcusmeissner.asc
+inherit autotools multilib-minimal verify-sig
+
+DESCRIPTION="Library for parsing, editing, and saving EXIF data"
+HOMEPAGE="https://libexif.github.io/"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/${PN}/${PN}/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}.tar.xz
+	verify-sig? ( https://github.com/${PN}/${PN}/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}.tar.xz.asc )
+"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~arm64-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+IUSE="doc nls"
+
+RDEPEND="nls? ( virtual/libintl )"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+	doc? ( app-text/doxygen )
+	nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )
+	verify-sig? ( sec-keys/openpgp-keys-marcusmeissner )
+"
+
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-0.6.13-pkgconfig.patch
+)
+
+QA_CONFIG_IMPL_DECL_SKIP=(
+	localtime_s # bug #898318
+)
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	# bug #390249
+	sed -i -e '/FLAGS=/s:-g::' configure.ac || die
+
+	# Previously elibtoolize for BSD
+	eautoreconf
+}
+
+multilib_src_configure() {
+	local myeconfargs=(
+		$(multilib_native_use_enable doc docs)
+		$(use_enable nls)
+		--with-doc-dir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/doc/${PF}
+	)
+
+	ECONF_SOURCE="${S}" econf "${myeconfargs[@]}"
+}
+
+multilib_src_install() {
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install
+}
+
+multilib_src_install_all() {
+	find "${ED}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
+
+	rm -f "${ED}"/usr/share/doc/${PF}/{ABOUT-NLS,COPYING} || die
+}