diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 6fb687e979..366a779f04 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1100,7 +1100,7 @@ libvirt-gconfig-1.0.so.0 libvirt-glib-0.1.2_1
 libvirt-gobject-1.0.so.0 libvirt-glib-0.1.2_1
 libvirt-glib-1.0.so.0 libvirt-glib-0.1.2_1
 libgsasl.so.7 libgsasl-1.8.0_1
-libzmq.so.3 zeromq-3.2.0_1
+libzmq.so.4 zeromq-4.0.5_1
 libstatgrab.so.6 libstatgrab-0.17_1
 libseccomp.so.2 libseccomp-2.0.0_1
 libqrencode.so.3 libqrencode-3.4.1_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-pyzmq/template b/srcpkgs/python-pyzmq/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cb5f344126
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/python-pyzmq/template
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# Template file for 'python-pyzmq'
+pkgname=python-pyzmq
+version=14.5.0
+revision=1
+wrksrc="pyzmq-${version}"
+build_style=python-module
+make_build_args="--zmq=${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr"
+python_versions="2.7 3.4"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config python-devel python3.4-devel zeromq-devel"
+makedepends="${hostmakedepends/pkg-config/}"
+pycompile_module="zmq"
+short_desc="Python2 bindings for the ZeroMQ messaging library"
+maintainer="Alessio Sergi <al3hex@gmail.com>"
+homepage="https://github.com/zeromq/pyzmq"
+license="LGPL-3, 3-clause-BSD"
+distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/p/pyzmq/pyzmq-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=5d6e045634456cf5496f50871fd3e3a5ede2b90433284dbfe985bb67c97f77bd
+
+pre_build() {
+	cat > setup.cfg <<-EOF
+		[global]
+		have_sys_un_h = False
+		skip_check_zmq = True
+	EOF
+
+	# remove bundled libraries
+	rm -rf bundled
+
+	# remove shebangs
+	find zmq/eventloop/minitornado -type f -name '*.py' -exec sed -i '/^#!.*python$/d' {} +
+}
+
+python3.4-pyzmq_package() {
+	pycompile_version="3.4"
+	pycompile_module="zmq"
+	short_desc="${short_desc/Python2/Python3.4}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/lib/python3.4
+	}
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3.4-pyzmq b/srcpkgs/python3.4-pyzmq
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..f908dd6b61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3.4-pyzmq
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+python-pyzmq
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