diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index 1a920bced..1d34d0297 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 2020-10-17
   * bump hass-nabucasa-0.37.1
   * update httpcore-0.12.0
+  * update httpx-0.16.1
 
 2020-10-16 homeassistant-0.116.4
  * bump elkm1-lib-0.8.3
diff --git a/dev-python/httpx/Manifest b/dev-python/httpx/Manifest
index 26a75d927..43ad3ab7f 100644
--- a/dev-python/httpx/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/httpx/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 DIST httpx-0.13.3.tar.gz 59369 BLAKE2B 8a5eb7bb76a73fe984a26312ea93fbe472f5e307e77b53d7f4ab1ff1127f5a8eb9cd9768fda2847fea192bda911f1f59cb96bc0640c9455172cbe95fab652d2d SHA512 4c71614bc4910363ac8c3617f5ffb44cd0ab60f9a0736588f13f91e7bef2cc9c84b8e4b1b01c46f1e2af52945ccd627448e2f35bab3d16291d02c27feb7f611c
+DIST httpx-0.16.1.tar.gz 83253 BLAKE2B 140d668f0e87e2f5d4e8c51e851a6a1a737e7a63cf2097c393a717d9ba57c82bc75dd9747438bf32d72eb2f5b3f226f497ec3e4c4ca2d7cd696b6251498147e4 SHA512 99321176d5bfe927804abe9c93eff098ce7498f6a42db0cacad4a9420d7e5e557ad1ada04126ab3bedfb718631ee7398d0ce42e2c5854f819e4ac36f892c1671
 EBUILD httpx-0.13.3.ebuild 930 BLAKE2B 3bd1fc2544f9fa07845cab6012cf9248353e979adf8d484d0dd7e7c8871e85d7499fa488d16c4a6b83a8760b66dfb3ee3edd5118fb24b8ef4ebbc98ef94c7ae7 SHA512 730a15f873b1edd515b1905693c31b1c99b7d3573c2669d962d00ef3d451db8ad1a055e50f2072f4825722a20176224470ec0c0fec826b868063104b471ed45f
+EBUILD httpx-0.16.1.ebuild 853 BLAKE2B 9bc627bdd988c5709a16d2fb8de76241f9d5e3bddb3f140f507e4b2e024ddff2b00d0c9f37b2e020b26bb6556371749774e9a6a244831b994aa9a59c7debd436 SHA512 cfc7943eb28883473fffed47a1ddba4038fe53f13293261a5a014c32992f5c366cf96e1ce91d373ce8883fafc69fe43e83968967a5e229cf1b53a482f169d682
 MISC metadata.xml 449 BLAKE2B ea18f358383ec5aa3ff853cd5491037fee7ae493b5c3770ce56d7cdb65d86a6b584e5d3ddf087938f7df69888a0e0d6a2ca0474a0425284cf5a9d0fd31d16ef0 SHA512 72c7164823962c07e3719f8d4c7f588f4d754fee3a7913b7757c7d0080b650a822f9c6c9c44d453c5e209f3115a6565dd104833f270591e2c26d325243cc1301
diff --git a/dev-python/httpx/httpx-0.16.1.ebuild b/dev-python/httpx/httpx-0.16.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8d5809fac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/httpx/httpx-0.16.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI="7"
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6..8} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="The next generation HTTP client."
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/encode/httpx https://pypi.org/project/httpx/"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${P:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+IUSE="test"
+
+RDEPEND="dev-python/certifi[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/idna[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/rfc3986-1.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/sniffio[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	~dev-python/httpcore-0.12.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		dev-python/nose[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)"
+
+python_test() {
+	nosetests --verbose || die
+	py.test -v -v || die
+}