diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index c8a75b93edd..c6441b436cd 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -3057,3 +3057,8 @@ libembb_base_c.so embb-devel-1.0.0_1
 libmatio.so.4 matio-1.5.11_1
 libhpdf.so Haru-devel-2.3.0_1
 libKF5Contacts.so.5 kcontacts-17.12.0_1
+libKF5AkonadiPrivate.so.5 akonadi5-17.12.0_1
+libKF5AkonadiCore.so.5 akonadi5-17.12.0_1
+libKF5AkonadiAgentBase.so.5 akonadi5-17.12.0_1
+libKF5AkonadiWidgets.so.5 akonadi5-17.12.0_1
+libKF5AkonadiXml.so.5 akonadi5-17.12.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/akonadi5-devel b/srcpkgs/akonadi5-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..7b70f82712f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/akonadi5-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+akonadi5
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/akonadi5/patches/protocolgen-cross.patch b/srcpkgs/akonadi5/patches/protocolgen-cross.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4d2a204ce73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/akonadi5/patches/protocolgen-cross.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--- src/private/protocolgen/CMakeLists.txt	2018-01-09 20:34:31.345972552 +0100
++++ src/private/protocolgen/CMakeLists.txt	2018-01-09 20:45:14.393984830 +0100
+@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
+ project(protocolgen)
+ 
++IF(CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING)
++	SET(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER $ENV{CXX_host})
++	SET(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS $ENV{XBPS_CXXFLAGS})
++ENDIF(CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING)
++
+ set(protocolgen_SRCS
+     main.cpp
+     cppgenerator.cpp
diff --git a/srcpkgs/akonadi5/template b/srcpkgs/akonadi5/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0d49c1ea9df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/akonadi5/template
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# Template file for 'akonadi5'
+pkgname=akonadi5
+version=17.12.1
+revision=1
+build_style=cmake
+hostmakedepends="extra-cmake-modules qt5-qmake qt5-host-tools python
+ shared-mime-info libxslt pkg-config"
+makedepends="qt5-devel qt5-plugin-mysql qt5-plugin-odbc qt5-plugin-pgsql
+ qt5-plugin-sqlite qt5-plugin-tds kcompletion-devel kconfigwidgets-devel
+ kdbusaddons-devel kiconthemes-devel kitemmodels-devel kio-devel sqlite-devel
+ qt5-tools-devel"
+depends="shared-mime-info"
+short_desc="PIM layer providing an asynchronous API to access PIM data"
+conflicts="akonadi"
+maintainer="Helmut Pozimski <helmut@pozimski.eu>"
+license="LGPL-2.1"
+homepage="https://community.kde.org/KDE_PIM/Akonadi"
+distfiles="https://download.kde.org/stable/applications/${version}/src/akonadi-${version}.tar.xz"
+checksum=1d488840bdc4f856b211c01ad31eb66027df41e2a59a8dc4691c99b8ea345c45
+wrksrc="akonadi-${version}"
+
+if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
+	hostmakedepends+=" qt5-tools-devel qt5-devel kconfig"
+fi
+
+pre_build() {
+	if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
+		sed -e "s?/usr/${XBPS_CROSS_TRIPLET}??g" \
+			-i build/src/private/protocolgen/CMakeFiles/protocolgen.dir/flags.make
+		sed -e "s?/usr/${XBPS_CROSS_TRIPLET}??g" \
+			-i build/src/private/protocolgen/CMakeFiles/protocolgen.dir/link.txt
+		sed -e 's!\&\& protocolgen!\&\& ../../bin/protocolgen!' \
+			-i build/src/private/CMakeFiles/generate_protocol.dir/build.make
+	fi
+}
+
+akonadi5-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development"
+	depends="${makedepends} ${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/qt5/mkspecs
+		vmove usr/lib/cmake
+		vmove usr/lib/*.so
+	}
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/akonadi5/update b/srcpkgs/akonadi5/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0bfbdced6f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/akonadi5/update
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+site="https://download.kde.org/stable/applications/"
+pattern='href="\K[\d\.]+(?=/")'