diff --git a/app-forensics/libvshadow/Manifest b/app-forensics/libvshadow/Manifest
index e24337084..0ccc3051c 100644
--- a/app-forensics/libvshadow/Manifest
+++ b/app-forensics/libvshadow/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST libvshadow-alpha-20181216.tar.gz 1415238 BLAKE2B 9b89a278443bbf203ad4a458a9b330d92400a1c8c711075c612c054e0506180af29a7f3b62960440edd92301e2f17e9f620705ac3396a0e10d634568a176dde2 SHA512 3deaa92d1c9e7ddfb6f2dac441c1e4d16bed376a163b2f4283056fb7d4f4bb91b4f378edf1908caf55fa32e5e09b3a9eb580d2fd8209fafd24257eaec2f1584f
 DIST libvshadow-alpha-20190127.tar.gz 1431067 BLAKE2B 60ce02306dbfc17ccadb4383cc6f7c9be625a14c48aba1b6f9249543226ee9ecd3621ad2f027df44a5e4532e784e5e363d55a795c60ed7717574f4d5f9fc66dc SHA512 db09898316f3e390b76a278b8a4f3c3e6e8054b5921975d8adf11241fcc03ff81d8595318f852153155e5931dd7bd448c38565e81d6880b95dba952d83930921
+DIST libvshadow-alpha-20190323.tar.gz 1431122 BLAKE2B f39bfa2f6dca339ac15cb3809f6b86cd12efd9dfa9efcaf1d0c6ac78dcd354f3fb168ec84d973ecc7dcaabc69cdcf9bffdf070fbdac114d599dcecf300ed74e9 SHA512 0563e8742c7dae5420ba1f425f1fc96f62d8930a347a00d244d382d4d76194c3bfee4f3def7d03efaf18f78f1af4fa822d43ff8df7b449e7fb61ad657e59fc84
diff --git a/app-forensics/libvshadow/libvshadow-20190323.ebuild b/app-forensics/libvshadow/libvshadow-20190323.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d421fe360
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-forensics/libvshadow/libvshadow-20190323.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+#FIXME: add python3 support
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
+inherit python-single-r1 eutils autotools
+
+DESCRIPTION="Library and tools to support the Volume Shadow Snapshot (VSS) format."
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/libyal/libvshadow"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/libyal/${PN}/releases/download/${PV}/${PN}-alpha-${PV}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-3+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+#unicode: https://github.com/libyal/libvshadow/issues/17
+IUSE="debug python nls unicode"
+
+REQUIRED_USE="python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
+
+DEPEND="nls? ( virtual/libintl
+		virtual/libiconv
+	)
+	python? ( dev-lang/python:* )
+	sys-fs/fuse:*
+	app-forensics/libbfio
+
+	>=dev-libs/libcdata-20190112
+	dev-libs/libcerror
+	dev-libs/libcfile
+	dev-libs/libclocale
+	dev-libs/libcnotify
+	dev-libs/libcpath
+	dev-libs/libcsplit
+	dev-libs/libcthreads
+	dev-libs/libfdatetime
+	dev-libs/libfguid
+	dev-libs/libuna
+"
+
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
+	python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )
+	sys-fs/fuse"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	#upstream does not support its own shared libraries, let's fix that
+	eapply "${FILESDIR}/${PN}"_2019_autoconfig.patch
+
+	#workaround, see https://github.com/libyal/libvshadow/issues/10
+#	echo "#define HAVE_ERRNO_H 1" >> common/config.h.in
+
+	#makefile was created with 1.16, let's regenerate it
+	eautoreconf
+	eapply_user
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	econf $(use_enable python) \
+		$(use_enable unicode wide-character-type) \
+		$(use_enable nls) \
+		$(use_with nls libiconv-prefix) \
+		$(use_with nls libintl-prefix) \
+		$(use_enable debug debug-output) \
+		$(use_enable debug verbose-output)
+# \
+#		--with-libcdata --with-libcerror --with-libcfile \
+#		--with-libclocale --with-libcnotify --with-libcpath \
+#		--with-libcsplit --with-libcthreads --with-libfdatetime \
+#		--with-libfguid --with-libuna
+}