diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index 3da5747b2..3fddb5e1c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 	* bump frontend-20191115.0
 	* bump SQLAlchemy-1.3.11
 	* bump pyHik-0.2.5
+	* bump pylint-2.4.4
 
 2019-11-15
 	* add aiobotocore-0.10.1
diff --git a/dev-python/pylint/Manifest b/dev-python/pylint/Manifest
index f506f9142..eff2c2b71 100644
--- a/dev-python/pylint/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/pylint/Manifest
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
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diff --git a/dev-python/pylint/pylint-2.4.4.ebuild b/dev-python/pylint/pylint-2.4.4.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..484994ce8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/pylint/pylint-2.4.4.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6,7} )
+PYTHON_REQ_USE="threads(+)"
+
+inherit distutils-r1 eutils
+
+DESCRIPTION="Python code static checker"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.logilab.org/project/pylint
+	https://pypi.org/project/pylint/
+	https://github.com/pycqa/pylint"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ia64 ~ppc ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~x64-macos ~x86-macos"
+IUSE="doc examples test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/astroid-1.6.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/six[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/isort-4.2.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/mccabe[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	virtual/python-singledispatch[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		dev-python/backports-functools-lru-cache[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/configparser[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' -2)"
+DEPEND="dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	doc? ( dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	test? ( ${RDEPEND}
+		<dev-python/pytest-3.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )"
+
+python_prepare_all() {
+	# remove unused dep
+	sed -i -e '/pytest-runner/d' setup.py || die
+
+	# Disable failing tests
+	# TODO: investigate if it's our fault and how can we fix it
+	sed -i -e 's/io.StringIO()/\0 if sys.version_info.major > 2 else open(os.devnull, "w")/' \
+		-e 's/test_libmodule/_&/' \
+		pylint/test/acceptance/test_stdlib.py || die
+	sed -i -e 's/^# pylint:.*/\0, import-error/' \
+		pylint/test/functional/deprecated_module_py36.py || die
+	sed -i -e 's/^# pylint:.*/\0, wrong-import-order/' \
+		pylint/test/functional/generated_members.py || die
+	sed -i -e 's/test_good_comprehension_checks/_&/' \
+		pylint/test/functional/using_constant_test.py || die
+
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+}
+
+python_compile_all() {
+	# selection of straight html triggers a trivial annoying bug, we skirt it
+	use doc && PYTHONPATH="${S}" emake -e -C doc singlehtml
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	py.test -v || die "Tests fail with ${EPYTHON}"
+}
+
+python_install_all() {
+	doman man/{pylint,pyreverse}.1
+	if use examples ; then
+		docinto examples
+		dodoc -r examples/.
+	fi
+	use doc && local HTML_DOCS=( doc/_build/singlehtml/. )
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	# Optional dependency on "tk" USE flag would break support for Jython.
+	optfeature "pylint-gui script requires dev-lang/python with \"tk\" USE flag enabled." 'dev-lang/python[tk]'
+}