diff --git a/packages.txt b/packages.txt
index 855948a68f9..1200d33f7e8 100644
--- a/packages.txt
+++ b/packages.txt
@@ -827,6 +827,7 @@ fuse-overlayfs
 libxv
 fuse-overlayfs-snapshotter
 sqlmap
+swaks
 orc
 kots
 upx
diff --git a/swaks.yaml b/swaks.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..15c9295b19f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/swaks.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+package:
+  name: swaks
+  version: '20201014.0'
+  epoch: 0
+  description: "File archiver with a high compression ratio"
+  copyright:
+    - license: LGPL-2.0-only
+
+environment:
+  contents:
+    packages:
+      - busybox
+      - ca-certificates-bundle
+      - build-base
+
+pipeline:
+  - uses: fetch
+    with:
+      uri: https://www.jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/files/swaks-${{package.version}}.tar.gz
+      expected-sha512: 8a4e8dc810a9c5943afdbc4db7130e110c42e211d6927ce1cdbab6f81fa49c31490e6c3668ec3cea79580c07b281ce30901b3b4a71325951167158cc9d70d9cc
+
+  - runs: |
+      install -Dm755 ${{package.name}} "${{targets.destdir}}"/usr/bin/${{package.name}}
+      install -Dm644 -t "${{targets.destdir}}"/usr/share/doc/${{package.name}} doc/*
+
+  - uses: strip
+
+subpackages:
+  - name: "${{package.name}}-doc"
+    description: "${{package.name}} documentation"
+    pipeline:
+      - uses: split/manpages
+      - runs: |
+          mkdir -p "${{targets.subpkgdir}}"/usr/share
+          mv "${{targets.destdir}}"/usr/share/doc/${{package.name}} "${{targets.subpkgdir}}"/usr/share
+
+update:
+  enabled: true
+  release-monitor:
+    identifier: 8862