diff --git a/net-im/jabberd2/ChangeLog b/net-im/jabberd2/ChangeLog
index 29c89ee..145c893 100644
--- a/net-im/jabberd2/ChangeLog
+++ b/net-im/jabberd2/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+*jabberd2-2.4.0 (07 Aug 2016)
+
+  07 Aug 2016; Manuel Friedli <manuel@fritteli.ch> +jabberd2-2.4.0.ebuild:
+  net-im/jabberd2:  added ebuild for jabberd2-2.4.0, as this version is not yet
+  in the official tree.
+
 *jabberd2-2.3.6 (06 Aug 2016)
 
   06 Aug 2016; Manuel Friedli <manuel@fritteli.ch> +files/jabberd2-2.3.1.pamd,
diff --git a/net-im/jabberd2/Manifest b/net-im/jabberd2/Manifest
index 1373287..421d017 100644
--- a/net-im/jabberd2/Manifest
+++ b/net-im/jabberd2/Manifest
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ AUX jabberd2-2.3.2.logrotate 197 SHA256 bca314e2555e113ee0916d33060c27332381cc3c
 AUX jabberd2-2.3.4-optimization.patch 627 SHA256 8a10c307846425d0ca8f987c8f46c1559f57d7fb4a448744a93637ece01577bd SHA512 2f38d9eb597f7bea21082a56eee1e28474cc66b56d5dd7de45853c98a5cdecbe7d1e5ff951b6b1395f7c27a9a2ec13c4552031b711d882fbd946338116b7d83e WHIRLPOOL aa67b5f0cbb50a81b789ced5efd0f22a2b199a4d51d1c242cde17f8317b1c2fe00d54ba0b73654bc0f7dd4fd027df83646afe5401a7f665d174faae163151be5
 AUX jabberd2-2.3.6-configure.patch 593 SHA256 39d3cdbcf57ff2247c4ca21cc130f56173a7f0db9f37f71048cae4cd9a043e15 SHA512 15e12903af39209e94b2ee42b802f93d5dc9f5d5f6dc646b65402d4445e046df02fe8150be675024a2b7f4d8f21f2cd2af1976a28c81d429be2e91c3845a327a WHIRLPOOL ef49fd6dd2158804bbd7bb93994089d2f301878ba7dcfa2d93ad77e6c4cbaa52c26e61f6191013b911ca8852f6e3d64faea2fea248dc5ddbcf5f0808cd759faf
 DIST jabberd-2.3.6.tar.xz 1503864 SHA256 33cbf58135f856f5e6e6a7769623fedfda21f0c5f88b3b687a22e04ad915c051 SHA512 c5efa443865028874e1c1f15937064edef4c1699afb14b55963e3cd86930a67dffed7830ab1ae77522cbf797ef9ab89d044ccb28ac65904ffa7e79dee155e8aa WHIRLPOOL 43f6c02d67c792fa1391cc87e7f4d60b6fe7089d8dc7796d54e0e25f1815ad29921eeb97aeb554b015261b7e5f83cd33d076abb61e60ff9fe9441971cb85bdcb
+DIST jabberd-2.4.0.tar.xz 1507452 SHA256 1101571f4a94d7ec5a82839e9e2abee51f3983e3b9c416f1b7f2f738ebebdee1 SHA512 eb621d2d76806361f54db49d1d3b2be0e0b5559f8ec64bc8ce8cd10f1455e8f4b98395cf790f969cb8ef63f2fa83f5974c5b70aaa82bbe670e1aa15a3d5a0a0b WHIRLPOOL f6e64febfc72e0d18f2063027cc764361601ab379e41bdb27a7d01f35d472a35632203f0905de8d61ef5f633f53dfa950310c20e9d7d8b69b922ed641793721c
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diff --git a/net-im/jabberd2/jabberd2-2.4.0.ebuild b/net-im/jabberd2/jabberd2-2.4.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..be229ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-im/jabberd2/jabberd2-2.4.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,180 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+
+inherit autotools db-use eutils flag-o-matic pam
+
+DESCRIPTION="Open Source Jabber Server"
+HOMEPAGE="http://jabberd2.org"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/jabberd2/jabberd2/releases/download/jabberd-${PV}/jabberd-${PV}.tar.xz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd"
+IUSE="berkdb debug experimental ldap libressl memdebug mysql pam postgres sqlite ssl test websocket zlib"
+REQUIRED_USE="memdebug? ( debug )"
+
+# broken
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+DEPEND="dev-libs/expat
+	net-libs/udns
+	net-dns/libidn
+	virtual/gsasl
+	berkdb? ( >=sys-libs/db-4.1.25:= )
+	ldap? ( net-nds/openldap )
+	mysql? (
+		virtual/libmysqlclient:=
+		virtual/mysql:=
+	)
+	pam? ( virtual/pam )
+	postgres? ( dev-db/postgresql:= )
+	ssl? (
+		!libressl? ( >=dev-libs/openssl-1.0.1:0[-bindist] )
+		libressl? ( dev-libs/libressl:= )
+	)
+	sqlite? ( dev-db/sqlite:3 )
+	websocket? ( net-libs/http-parser:= )
+	zlib? ( sys-libs/zlib )"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
+	>=net-im/jabber-base-0.01"
+DEPEND="${DEPEND}
+	app-arch/xz-utils
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+	test? ( dev-libs/check )"
+
+DOCS=( AUTHORS README )
+
+S=${WORKDIR}/jabberd-${PV}
+
+pkg_pretend() {
+	if is-flagq '-O[3s]' ; then
+		ewarn "O3/Os compiler flags have been known to cause problems"
+		ewarn "with old gcc version. Be aware that this could break"
+		ewarn "port binding. Make sure to test this."
+		ewarn "See https://github.com/jabberd2/jabberd2/issues/34"
+	fi
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	# Fix some default directory locations
+	sed -i \
+		-e 's,@localstatedir@/@package@/pid/,/var/run/@package@/,g' \
+		-e 's,@localstatedir@/@package@/run/pbx,/var/run/@package@/pbx,g' \
+		-e 's,@localstatedir@/@package@/log/,/var/log/@package@/,g' \
+		-e 's,@localstatedir@/lib/jabberd2/fs,@localstatedir@/@package@/fs,g' \
+		-e 's,@localstatedir@,/var/spool,g' \
+		-e 's,@package@,jabber,g' \
+		etc/{sm,router,c2s,s2s}.xml.dist.in || die "fixing default directory locations failed!"
+
+	# If the package wasn't merged with sqlite then default to use berkdb
+	use sqlite ||
+		sed -i \
+			-e 's,<\(module\|driver\)>sqlite<\/\1>,<\1>db</\1>,g' \
+			etc/{c2s,sm}.xml.dist.in || die "setting berkdb as default failed!"
+
+	# avoid file collision with x11-misc/screen-message wrt #453994
+	sed -i \
+		-e 's/@jabberd_router_bin@/jabberd2-router/' \
+		-e 's/@jabberd_c2s_bin@/jabberd2-c2s/' \
+		-e 's/@jabberd_s2s_bin@/jabberd2-s2s/' \
+		-e 's/@jabberd_sm_bin@/jabberd2-sm/' \
+		etc/jabberd*.in || die "fixing file collisions failed!"
+
+	# rename pid files wrt #241472
+	sed -i \
+		-e '/pidfile/s/${id}\.pid/jabberd2-c2s\.pid/' \
+		etc/c2s.xml.dist.in || die
+	sed -i \
+		-e '/pidfile/s/${id}\.pid/jabberd2-router\.pid/' \
+		etc/router.xml.dist.in || die
+	sed -i \
+		-e '/pidfile/s/${id}\.pid/jabberd2-s2s\.pid/' \
+		etc/s2s.xml.dist.in || die
+	sed -i \
+		-e '/pidfile/s/${id}\.pid/jabberd2-sm\.pid/' \
+		etc/sm.xml.dist.in || die
+
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-2.3.6-configure.patch
+
+	eautoreconf
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	# --enable-pool-debug is currently broken
+	econf \
+		--sysconfdir=/etc/jabber \
+		$(usex debug "--enable-debug" "") \
+		$(usex memdebug "--enable-nad-debug" "") \
+		$(use_enable ssl) \
+		$(use_enable mysql) \
+		$(use_enable postgres pgsql) \
+		$(use_enable sqlite) \
+		$(use_enable berkdb db) \
+		$(use_enable ldap) \
+		$(use_enable pam) \
+		--enable-pipe \
+		--enable-anon \
+		--enable-fs \
+		$(use_enable websocket) \
+		$(use_enable experimental) \
+		$(use_enable test tests) \
+		$(usex berkdb "--with-extra-include-path=$(db_includedir)" "") \
+		$(use_with zlib)
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	local i
+
+	default
+	prune_libtool_files --modules
+
+	keepdir /var/spool/jabber/{fs,db}
+	fowners jabber:jabber /usr/bin/{jabberd,router,sm,c2s,s2s} \
+		/var/spool/jabber/{fs,db}
+	fperms 770 /var/spool/jabber/{fs,db}
+	fperms 750 /usr/bin/{jabberd,router,sm,c2s,s2s}
+
+	# avoid file collision with x11-misc/screen-message wrt #453994
+	for i in router sm c2s s2s ; do
+		einfo "renaming /usr/bin/${i} to /usr/bin/jabberd2-${i}"
+		mv "${ED%/}"/usr/bin/${i} "${ED%/}"/usr/bin/jabberd2-${i} || die
+	done
+
+	newinitd "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-2.3.2.init" jabberd
+	newpamd "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-2.3.1.pamd" jabberd
+	insinto /etc/logrotate.d
+	newins "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-2.3.2.logrotate" jabberd
+
+	docompress -x /usr/share/doc/${PF}/tools
+	docinto tools
+	dodoc tools/db-setup{.mysql,.pgsql,.sqlite} \
+		tools/{migrate-jd14dir-2-sqlite.pl,pipe-auth.pl}
+
+	# remove useless upstart files wrt #498900
+	rm -rf "${ED%/}"/usr/etc
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	if use pam; then
+		echo
+		ewarn 'Jabberd-2 PAM authentication requires your unix usernames to'
+		ewarn 'be in the form of "contactname@jabberdomain". This behavior'
+		ewarn 'is likely to change in future versions of jabberd-2. It may'
+		ewarn 'be advisable to avoid PAM authentication for the time being.'
+		echo
+	fi
+
+	if use sqlite || use mysql || use postgres; then
+		echo
+		einfo "You will need to setup or update your database using the"
+		einfo "scripts in /usr/share/doc/${PF}/tools/"
+		echo
+	fi
+
+	ewarn 'If you are upgrading from <=jabberd2-2.2.17 then you might have'
+	ewarn 'to update /etc/jabber/jabberd.cfg via etc-update because'
+	ewarn 'the binaries have been renamed to avoid file collisions!'
+}