diff --git a/net-libs/libsearpc/Manifest b/net-libs/libsearpc/Manifest
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..83cb7350c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-libs/libsearpc/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+DIST libsearpc-3.1.tar.gz 51768 BLAKE2B c58d82ac5a798d8730cd72935a07ae85c4b66b1833caa5bd48a8a545c17e48d7785ad589fd25b05d8ac607d386c8722e95b136812b7586dcedbef18991921236 SHA512 d5453399d4ca7579f8500204db183350b75eebe31580f0c7b19c967ea937b8faf35a448738f6e2dc1250f46d4f291d3596b94b40d3f26bf7e6877546d68a61b2
diff --git a/net-libs/libsearpc/libsearpc-3.1.ebuild b/net-libs/libsearpc/libsearpc-3.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..23605ce88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-libs/libsearpc/libsearpc-3.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
+inherit autotools python-single-r1 vcs-snapshot
+
+DESCRIPTION="A simple C language RPC framework"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/haiwen/libsearpc/ http://seafile.com/"
+#TODO: Use commit hash tarball on next version bump.
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/haiwen/${PN}/archive/v3.1-latest.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE=""
+REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
+
+DEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
+	>=dev-libs/glib-2.26.0
+	>=dev-libs/jansson-2.2.1"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
+	dev-python/simplejson[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	sed -i -e "s/(DESTDIR)//" ${PN}.pc.in || die
+	eautoreconf
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	default
+	# Remove unnecessary .la files, as recommended by ltprune.eclass
+	find "${ED}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
+	python_fix_shebang "${ED}"usr/bin
+}
diff --git a/net-libs/libsearpc/metadata.xml b/net-libs/libsearpc/metadata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e6eeb61c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-libs/libsearpc/metadata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>moschlar@metalabs.de</email>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">haiwen/libsearpc</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/net-misc/seafile/seafile-7.0.1.ebuild b/net-misc/seafile/seafile-7.0.1.ebuild
index 2d7f5c030..3a0b5480d 100644
--- a/net-misc/seafile/seafile-7.0.1.ebuild
+++ b/net-misc/seafile/seafile-7.0.1.ebuild
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ IUSE=""
 REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
 
 RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
-	net-libs/libsearpc[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=net-libs/libsearpc-3.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	~net-libs/ccnet-6.1.7[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-libs/glib:2
 	dev-libs/libevent:0
diff --git a/profiles/pentoo/base/package.accept_keywords/net-misc b/profiles/pentoo/base/package.accept_keywords/net-misc
index 84e573fe6..e9c00ac22 100644
--- a/profiles/pentoo/base/package.accept_keywords/net-misc
+++ b/profiles/pentoo/base/package.accept_keywords/net-misc
@@ -117,5 +117,5 @@ net-misc/karma
 net-misc/voipong
 
 ~net-misc/seafile-7.0.1
-~net-libs/libsearpc-3.0.8
+~net-libs/libsearpc-3.1
 ~net-libs/ccnet-6.1.7