diff --git a/net-misc/socat/Manifest b/net-misc/socat/Manifest
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-misc/socat/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+DIST socat-1.7.4.4.tar.bz2 522127 BLAKE2B 221b1c7c1ef0ac9c2402a6917ce7740a7ed857ceae4f4c346ed3c69c261fd0f9ca667e21cab5f97427d3947b06fdb0ac6d090852465878db968a24b8ece587ad SHA512 3eedfbf599ecf1d6fd391d03d710044bc5e18a762395bc4cb151b96fe673d405a6630da3070ecddd5ac558126b56aa65feaa74d528eeb755a04aa0ec61690651
+EBUILD socat-1.7.4.4.ebuild 1516 BLAKE2B d2a2be258287e57b9b8b62db14870a2b3871e5498d6a15b835d183888c088e12265d4602912cdc3408121df9fec1de1226e3812f45dfee6d21c4d153ec4b9ed6 SHA512 4de4667635deb2d4d139e5a3dcf9e7fc324a2bdffb277bdb303af659202a73cb45275dc1ecdbba6deedb9368c5a4be63c651453c0347942c244c217040e70edc
+MISC metadata.xml 468 BLAKE2B 3b8eb979af07fe02eac29cbb79d6da3782adf46025c072e03026bd765c562ddb7ae18dff9f162b18f9f9a07fa5fff3b3fda9a4445c9dc75d65d4395abc0de217 SHA512 0c3b9355c7420ea8bba4932c9c5f457393e0b7719fa65e5f9cd05ce38209d8cf8ab3e4401b8608a62fc8277742cf2b8728b9718b1183b634cfd596cedbe353aa
diff --git a/net-misc/socat/metadata.xml b/net-misc/socat/metadata.xml
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/net-misc/socat/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>sam@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Sam James</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>netmon@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Gentoo network monitoring and analysis project</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="cpe">cpe:/a:dest-unreach:socat</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/net-misc/socat/socat-1.7.4.4.ebuild b/net-misc/socat/socat-1.7.4.4.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..26efc8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-misc/socat/socat-1.7.4.4.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit flag-o-matic toolchain-funcs
+
+MY_P=${P/_beta/-b}
+DESCRIPTION="Multipurpose relay (SOcket CAT)"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/ https://repo.or.cz/socat.git"
+SRC_URI="http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/${MY_P}.tar.bz2"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos"
+IUSE="bindist ipv6 readline ssl tcpd"
+
+DEPEND="ssl? ( dev-libs/openssl:0= )
+	readline? ( sys-libs/readline:= )
+	tcpd? ( sys-apps/tcp-wrappers )"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+# Tests are a large bash script
+# Hard to disable individual tests needing network or privileges
+# in 1.7.4.2: FAILED:  59 329
+RESTRICT="test ssl? ( readline? ( bindist ) )"
+
+DOCS=( BUGREPORTS CHANGES DEVELOPMENT EXAMPLES FAQ FILES PORTING README SECURITY )
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	# bug #587740
+	if use readline && use ssl ; then
+		elog "You are enabling both readline and ssl (openssl) USE flags, the licenses"
+		elog "for these packages conflict. You may not be able to legally"
+		elog "redistribute the resulting binary."
+	fi
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	# bug #293324
+	filter-flags '-Wno-error*'
+
+	tc-export AR
+
+	econf \
+		$(use_enable ssl openssl) \
+		$(use_enable readline) \
+		$(use_enable ipv6 ip6) \
+		$(use_enable tcpd libwrap)
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	default
+
+	docinto html
+	dodoc doc/*.html doc/*.css
+}