diff --git a/DEVELOPERS b/DEVELOPERS
index cb86b7100d..a85b611ccb 100644
--- a/DEVELOPERS
+++ b/DEVELOPERS
@@ -360,6 +360,7 @@ F:	package/libcec/
 F:	package/libcodec2/
 F:	package/libcrossguid/
 F:	package/libdcadec/
+F:	package/libdeflate/
 F:	package/libdrm/
 F:	package/libdvbcsa/
 F:	package/libdvdcss/
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 5518067252..b26b41821f 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -1397,6 +1397,7 @@ endmenu
 
 menu "Compression and decompression"
 	source "package/libarchive/Config.in"
+	source "package/libdeflate/Config.in"
 	source "package/libmspack/Config.in"
 	source "package/libsquish/Config.in"
 	source "package/libzip/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/libdeflate/Config.in b/package/libdeflate/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d2fb0d6c55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/libdeflate/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBDEFLATE
+	bool "libdeflate"
+	help
+	  Libdeflate is a heavily optimized library for DEFLATE/zlib/
+	  gzip compression and decompression
+
+	  https://github.com/ebiggers/libdeflate
diff --git a/package/libdeflate/libdeflate.hash b/package/libdeflate/libdeflate.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7dae12921f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/libdeflate/libdeflate.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Locally computed
+sha256  ba89fb167a5ab6bbdfa6ee3b1a71636e8140fa8471cce8a311697584948e4d06  libdeflate-1.12.tar.gz
+sha256  5d246dd2537307b80fed9ba5fdddf5d0fe7a8f023393a071182b9daed56b40fe  COPYING
diff --git a/package/libdeflate/libdeflate.mk b/package/libdeflate/libdeflate.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..93ec5909a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/libdeflate/libdeflate.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# libdeflate
+#
+################################################################################
+
+LIBDEFLATE_VERSION = 1.12
+LIBDEFLATE_SITE = $(call github,ebiggers,libdeflate,v$(LIBDEFLATE_VERSION))
+LIBDEFLATE_LICENSE = MIT
+LIBDEFLATE_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
+LIBDEFLATE_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),y)
+LIBDEFLATE_MAKE_OPTS += DISABLE_SHARED=yes
+endif
+
+define LIBDEFLATE_BUILD_CMDS
+	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) -C $(@D) $(TARGET_CONFIGURE_OPTS) \
+		$(LIBDEFLATE_MAKE_OPTS)
+endef
+
+define LIBDEFLATE_INSTALL_STAGING_CMDS
+	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) -C $(@D) $(TARGET_CONFIGURE_OPTS) \
+		$(LIBDEFLATE_MAKE_OPTS) \
+		DESTDIR="$(STAGING_DIR)" PREFIX=/usr install
+endef
+
+define LIBDEFLATE_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
+	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) -C $(@D) $(TARGET_CONFIGURE_OPTS) \
+		$(LIBDEFLATE_MAKE_OPTS) \
+		DESTDIR="$(TARGET_DIR)" PREFIX=/usr install
+endef
+
+$(eval $(generic-package))