diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 041a0fb150c..92749487531 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -3707,3 +3707,5 @@ libjsonnet.so.0 jsonnet-0.14.0_2
 libjsonnet++.so.0 jsonnet-0.14.0_2
 libigdgmm.so.11 intel-gmmlib-19.4.1_1
 libgtk-layer-shell.so.0 wf-shell-0.3_1
+librdkafka.so.1 librdkafka-1.3.0_1
+librdkafka++.so.1 librdkafka-1.3.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/kafkacat/template b/srcpkgs/kafkacat/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ea501ff6df9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/kafkacat/template
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Template file for 'kafkacat'
+pkgname=kafkacat
+version=1.5.0
+revision=1
+build_style=configure
+configure_args="--prefix=/usr"
+makedepends="librdkafka-devel"
+short_desc="Command line Apache Kafka producer and consumer"
+maintainer="Frank Steinborn <steinex@nognu.de>"
+license="BSD-2-Clause"
+homepage="https://github.com/edenhill/kafkacat"
+distfiles="${homepage}/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=16f358fab258cbefc328cf642f72ee8b5dae1648657d508997279ca5bd0fbef0
+
+post_install() {
+	vlicense LICENSE
+}