diff --git a/DEVELOPERS b/DEVELOPERS
index 84ca8c76dc..2ba6096464 100644
--- a/DEVELOPERS
+++ b/DEVELOPERS
@@ -2280,6 +2280,7 @@ F:	package/python-typing-inspection/
 F:	package/python-tzlocal/
 F:	package/python-sdbus-modemmanager/
 F:	package/python-waitress/
+F:	package/python-whitenoise/
 F:	support/testing/tests/package/test_python_apscheduler.py
 F:	support/testing/tests/package/test_python_crc.py
 F:	support/testing/tests/package/test_python_django.py
@@ -2290,6 +2291,7 @@ F:	support/testing/tests/package/test_python_ruamel_yaml.py
 F:	support/testing/tests/package/test_python_sdbus_modemmanager.py
 F:	support/testing/tests/package/test_python_tzlocal.py
 F:	support/testing/tests/package/test_python_waitress.py
+F:	support/testing/tests/package/test_python_whitenoise.py
 F:	support/testing/tests/package/sample_python_apscheduler.py
 F:	support/testing/tests/package/sample_python_crc.py
 F:	support/testing/tests/package/sample_python_django.py
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index b06288941e..43e7b36446 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -1492,6 +1492,7 @@ menu "External python modules"
 	source "package/python-websocket-client/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-websockets/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-werkzeug/Config.in"
+	source "package/python-whitenoise/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-whoosh/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-wrapt/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-ws4py/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/python-whitenoise/Config.in b/package/python-whitenoise/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..47df3ad5bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-whitenoise/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_WHITENOISE
+	bool "python-whitenoise"
+	help
+	  Radically simplified static file serving for WSGI
+	  applications.
+
+	  https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise
diff --git a/package/python-whitenoise/python-whitenoise.hash b/package/python-whitenoise/python-whitenoise.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1659961825
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-whitenoise/python-whitenoise.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/whitenoise/json
+md5  212cafd7f8d972a5d6740bfc88b3f17b  whitenoise-6.11.0.tar.gz
+sha256  0f5bfce6061ae6611cd9396a8231e088722e4fc67bc13a111be74c738d99375f  whitenoise-6.11.0.tar.gz
+# Locally computed sha256 checksums
+sha256  ebfd469b4fb6b5adada547747e1e8da725ecf20595d54aced043275d4f4a3600  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/python-whitenoise/python-whitenoise.mk b/package/python-whitenoise/python-whitenoise.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..91f3b6d2d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-whitenoise/python-whitenoise.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# python-whitenoise
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PYTHON_WHITENOISE_VERSION = 6.11.0
+PYTHON_WHITENOISE_SOURCE = whitenoise-$(PYTHON_WHITENOISE_VERSION).tar.gz
+PYTHON_WHITENOISE_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/15/95/8c81ec6b6ebcbf8aca2de7603070ccf37dbb873b03f20708e0f7c1664bc6
+PYTHON_WHITENOISE_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
+PYTHON_WHITENOISE_LICENSE = MIT
+PYTHON_WHITENOISE_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+
+$(eval $(python-package))
diff --git a/support/testing/tests/package/test_python_whitenoise.py b/support/testing/tests/package/test_python_whitenoise.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5a76b6d5be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/support/testing/tests/package/test_python_whitenoise.py
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+import time
+
+from tests.package.test_python import TestPythonPackageBase
+
+
+class TestPythonPy3Whitenoise(TestPythonPackageBase):
+    __test__ = True
+    config = TestPythonPackageBase.config + \
+        """
+        BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3=y
+        BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_DJANGO=y
+        BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_WHITENOISE=y
+        BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3_SQLITE=y
+        """
+
+    def test_run(self):
+        self.login()
+        timeout = 35
+
+        cmd = "cd /opt && /usr/bin/django-admin startproject testsite"
+        self.assertRunOk(cmd, timeout=timeout)
+        # STATIC_ROOT needs to be set for 'collectstatic' to work.
+        self.emulator.run("echo 'STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR / \"staticfiles\"' >> /opt/testsite/testsite/settings.py")
+        cmd = "cd /opt/testsite && " + self.interpreter + " ./manage.py collectstatic"
+        self.assertRunOk(cmd, timeout=timeout)
+        # whitenoise docs say it needs to be added directly after SecurityMiddleware, so we do this here with sed.
+        cmd = """sed -i -e /django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware/a\\ \\"whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware\\",\
+        /opt/testsite/testsite/settings.py"""
+        self.assertRunOk(cmd, timeout=timeout)
+        # --nostatic ensures the builtin django server doesn't serve the static files,
+        # so we can test that whitenoise serves them
+        cmd = "cd /opt/testsite && " + self.interpreter + " ./manage.py runserver --nostatic 0.0.0.0:1234 > /dev/null 2>&1 & "
+        self.assertRunOk(cmd, timeout=timeout)
+        # give some time to setup the server
+        for attempt in range(30 * self.emulator.timeout_multiplier):
+            time.sleep(1)
+            cmd = "wget http://127.0.0.1:1234/static/admin/css/base.css"
+            _, exit_code = self.emulator.run(cmd)
+            if exit_code == 0:
+                break
+        self.assertEqual(exit_code, 0, "Timeout while waiting for django server")