diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 22e35e2688..e2b782e80e 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -2548,6 +2548,15 @@ libOpenCOLLADABaseUtils.so opencollada-0.0.20160223_1
 libOpenCOLLADAFramework.so opencollada-0.0.20160223_1
 libOpenCOLLADASaxFrameworkLoader.so opencollada-0.0.20160223_1
 libOpenCOLLADAStreamWriter.so opencollada-0.0.20160223_1
+leatherman_util.so.1.12.0 leatherman-1.12.0_1
+leatherman_locale.so.1.12.0 leatherman-1.12.0_1
+leatherman_logging.so.1.12.0 leatherman-1.12.0_1
+leatherman_json_container.so.1.12.0 leatherman-1.12.0_1
+leatherman_file_util.so.1.12.0 leatherman-1.12.0_1
+leatherman_curl.so.1.12.0 leatherman-1.12.0_1
+leatherman_dynamic_library.so.1.12.0 leatherman-1.12.0_1
+leatherman_execution.so.1.12.0 leatherman-1.12.0_1
+leatherman_ruby.so.1.12.0 leatherman-1.12.0_1
 libUTF.so opencollada-0.0.20160223_1
 libbuffer.so opencollada-0.0.20160223_1
 libftoa.so opencollada-0.0.20160223_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/leatherman-devel b/srcpkgs/leatherman-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..0301550272
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/leatherman-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+leatherman
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/leatherman/template b/srcpkgs/leatherman/template
index cf8785bcd1..92a35640bf 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/leatherman/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/leatherman/template
@@ -1,16 +1,27 @@
 # Template file for 'leatherman'
-# Note: always revbump cpp-hocon when updating as it links against this static lib
 pkgname=leatherman
-version=1.11.0
+version=1.12.0
 revision=1
 build_style=cmake
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
+configure_args="-DLEATHERMAN_SHARED=ON"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config python3"
 makedepends="boost-devel libcurl-devel"
 short_desc="Collection of C++ and CMake utility libraries"
 maintainer="Jürgen Buchmüller <pullmoll@t-online.de>"
 license="Apache-2.0"
-homepage="https://github.com/puppetlabs/leatherman"
+homepage="https://github.com/puppetlabs/leatherman/"
 distfiles="https://github.com/puppetlabs/leatherman/archive/${version}.tar.gz>${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=38fe9a272fec824c503a9dc91b79cfe6e05b868e55fba9977de9baff5ad1be7e
+checksum=93b9f6889963b98aaf64fa4098b5f3402fed1fe0b8e08ff7bcd3abfb00e5a3aa
+python_version=3
 
 CXXFLAGS+=" -Wno-ignored-qualifiers -Wno-class-memaccess -Wno-catch-value -Wno-deprecated-copy"
+
+leatherman-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="${makedepends} ${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/cmake
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+	}
+}