diff --git a/dev-libs/libclocale/Manifest b/dev-libs/libclocale/Manifest
index e9e868d22..eaa369768 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libclocale/Manifest
+++ b/dev-libs/libclocale/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-DIST libclocale-alpha-20200428.tar.gz 512992 BLAKE2B 98109f1099c6b3c7e92477122b94252b41c3ad2086d7dddd38f5801afb0cd17ffb7d5588cb95ffbacbdb2fc22bd30241367b3e94452b3dceba45f8e455b8b24f SHA512 ed21856391ac8b2b2bd8b77b2d919dce2ea1014e1dfe9a3d835e395a482f64c706ea7b7d4ab615a384c696d5e8e52b54bc92d4eb51c83450f7bd739a41755350
-DIST libclocale-alpha-20200913.tar.gz 512711 BLAKE2B 196402ff876ae2f48c4bc470dd2f52e0972ebbdb500939d40795004f1018ef83dcae11832a5f47adbe3d9dbed25fcecf78f3d3626cb3f3bb5bfb3663a4695f15 SHA512 5476ca1b1ba19b10ba7078931f26562aaa6292e45a762f267c4da5f2e8b3f96031330fae6dedb0076d73dbee65b62f836744346255e530f5c542b56bd2d79613
 DIST libclocale-alpha-20210526.tar.gz 513701 BLAKE2B 7af9c4970520408baf1e810eead458a1df708c1eed960ba3aaf7ad0365d6f076a7df6e406ca69c5cd309a4e3e312970a03592dff4539e2a08f3a0b640798a134 SHA512 76c7e808435e6226510467692a3261ca0edfeca0a8c8fef41727864cc46dc41f89286310a0fee4809ea1cba53a713cbf664ea4d21c9131e8c45106b2134ab926
+DIST libclocale-alpha-20220107.tar.gz 513676 BLAKE2B 942c7d831d2dbf36302eedc8b662674afeb22f176eea4fe5625f7f7ea8159895af9a3a686fedfe42e7316c351888006a88daee3d301e799181838dddb4e67220 SHA512 98bbd0487e813c9939d7b217e0f27178e805b445c801270fe66fcff6a685fcc3b9a6c4d1d3252e805bf63733146f022525245af6c93a0a6e2ee18d1147ad9643
diff --git a/dev-libs/libclocale/libclocale-20200428.ebuild b/dev-libs/libclocale/libclocale-20200428.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index dc10623e5..000000000
--- a/dev-libs/libclocale/libclocale-20200428.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-DESCRIPTION="Library for cross-platform C locale functions"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/libyal/${PN}"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/libyal/${PN}/releases/download/${PV}/${PN}-alpha-${PV}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="LGPL-3"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86"
-IUSE="nls unicode"
-
-DEPEND="dev-libs/libcerror
-	nls? ( virtual/libiconv
-		virtual/libintl )"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-src_configure() {
-	econf $(use_enable nls) \
-		$(use_with nls libiconv-prefix) \
-		$(use_with nls libintl-prefix) \
-		$(use_enable unicode wide-character-type)
-		# \
-#		--with-libcerror
-}
diff --git a/dev-libs/libclocale/libclocale-20200913.ebuild b/dev-libs/libclocale/libclocale-20200913.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index dc10623e5..000000000
--- a/dev-libs/libclocale/libclocale-20200913.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-DESCRIPTION="Library for cross-platform C locale functions"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/libyal/${PN}"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/libyal/${PN}/releases/download/${PV}/${PN}-alpha-${PV}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="LGPL-3"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86"
-IUSE="nls unicode"
-
-DEPEND="dev-libs/libcerror
-	nls? ( virtual/libiconv
-		virtual/libintl )"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-src_configure() {
-	econf $(use_enable nls) \
-		$(use_with nls libiconv-prefix) \
-		$(use_with nls libintl-prefix) \
-		$(use_enable unicode wide-character-type)
-		# \
-#		--with-libcerror
-}
diff --git a/dev-libs/libclocale/libclocale-20210526.ebuild b/dev-libs/libclocale/libclocale-20210526.ebuild
index 268c0c94c..903124040 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libclocale/libclocale-20210526.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/libclocale/libclocale-20210526.ebuild
@@ -1,27 +1,37 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-EAPI=7
+EAPI=8
 
 DESCRIPTION="Library for cross-platform C locale functions"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/libyal/${PN}"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/libyal/${PN}/releases/download/${PV}/${PN}-alpha-${PV}.tar.gz"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/libyal/libclocale"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/libyal/libclocale/releases/download/${PV}/${PN}-alpha-${PV}.tar.gz"
 
 LICENSE="LGPL-3"
 SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86"
+KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm64 x86"
 IUSE="nls unicode"
 
-DEPEND="dev-libs/libcerror
-	nls? ( virtual/libiconv
-		virtual/libintl )"
+DEPEND="
+	dev-libs/libcerror
+	nls? (
+		virtual/libiconv
+		virtual/libintl
+	)
+"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 
 src_configure() {
-	econf $(use_enable nls) \
+	econf \
+		$(use_enable nls) \
 		$(use_with nls libiconv-prefix) \
 		$(use_with nls libintl-prefix) \
 		$(use_enable unicode wide-character-type)
-		# \
-#		--with-libcerror
+
+#  --disable-shared-libs   disable shared library support
+# not supported in the ebuild at the moment - kind of defeats the entire process
+
+#  --enable-winapi         enable WINAPI support for cross-compilation
+#                          [default=auto-detect]
+# not supported in the ebuild at the moment - requires windows.h, does not make much sense for us
 }
diff --git a/dev-libs/libclocale/libclocale-20220107.ebuild b/dev-libs/libclocale/libclocale-20220107.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..903124040
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/libclocale/libclocale-20220107.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DESCRIPTION="Library for cross-platform C locale functions"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/libyal/libclocale"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/libyal/libclocale/releases/download/${PV}/${PN}-alpha-${PV}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm64 x86"
+IUSE="nls unicode"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-libs/libcerror
+	nls? (
+		virtual/libiconv
+		virtual/libintl
+	)
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+src_configure() {
+	econf \
+		$(use_enable nls) \
+		$(use_with nls libiconv-prefix) \
+		$(use_with nls libintl-prefix) \
+		$(use_enable unicode wide-character-type)
+
+#  --disable-shared-libs   disable shared library support
+# not supported in the ebuild at the moment - kind of defeats the entire process
+
+#  --enable-winapi         enable WINAPI support for cross-compilation
+#                          [default=auto-detect]
+# not supported in the ebuild at the moment - requires windows.h, does not make much sense for us
+}