diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 81b1064501..ab74a1fd25 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -4101,3 +4101,4 @@ libkmailconfirmbeforedeleting.so.5 kdepim-addons-21.08.3_1
 libkaddressbookprivate.so.5 kaddressbook-21.08.3_1
 libcodec2.so.1.0 codec2-1.0.1_1
 libx86emu.so.3 libx86emu-3.4_1
+libdeflate.so.0 libdeflate-1.8_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libdeflate-devel b/srcpkgs/libdeflate-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..e29c9946ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libdeflate-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libdeflate
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libdeflate/template b/srcpkgs/libdeflate/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..865b442a37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libdeflate/template
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# Template file for 'libdeflate'
+pkgname=libdeflate
+version=1.9
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-makefile
+make_build_args="PROG_SUFFIX=libdeflate"
+checkdepends="zlib-devel"
+short_desc="Optimized library for DEFLATE/zlib/gzip (de)compression"
+maintainer="mobinmob <mobinmob@disroot.org>"
+license="MIT"
+homepage="https://github.com/ebiggers/libdeflate"
+distfiles="https://github.com/ebiggers/libdeflate/archive/refs/tags/v${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=a537ab6125c226b874c02b166488b326aece954930260dbf682d88fc339137e3
+
+post_install() {
+	vlicense COPYING
+}
+
+libdeflate-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+		vmove "/usr/lib/pkgconfig"
+	}
+}