diff --git a/DEVELOPERS b/DEVELOPERS
index 9d5f51b08b..3a73917797 100644
--- a/DEVELOPERS
+++ b/DEVELOPERS
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ F:	package/wine/
 N:	Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@gmail.com>
 F:	package/python-decorator/
 F:	package/python-ipython-genutils/
+F:	package/python-pathlib2/
 F:	package/python-scandir/
 F:	package/python-simplegeneric/
 F:	package/python-traitlets/
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 14315d5ca6..cf41b37ed5 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -773,6 +773,7 @@ menu "External python modules"
 	source "package/python-paho-mqtt/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-pam/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-paramiko/Config.in"
+	source "package/python-pathlib2/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-pathpy/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-pathtools/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-pathvalidate/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/python-pathlib2/Config.in b/package/python-pathlib2/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7297f0addb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-pathlib2/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_PATHLIB2
+	bool "python-pathlib2"
+	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_SIX # runtime
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_SCANDIR # runtime
+	help
+	  Object-oriented filesystem paths.
+
+	  The goal of pathlib2 is to provide a backport of standard
+	  pathlib module which tracks the standard library module, so
+	  all the newest features of the standard pathlib can be used
+	  also on older Python versions.
+
+	  https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pathlib2
diff --git a/package/python-pathlib2/python-pathlib2.hash b/package/python-pathlib2/python-pathlib2.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a9c294940a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-pathlib2/python-pathlib2.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# md5 from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pathlib2/json, sha256 locally computed
+md5 6c75bfde898b6c88627621a48ee8de14 pathlib2-2.2.1.tar.gz
+sha256 ce9007df617ef6b7bd8a31cd2089ed0c1fed1f7c23cf2bf1ba140b3dd563175d pathlib2-2.2.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/python-pathlib2/python-pathlib2.mk b/package/python-pathlib2/python-pathlib2.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..db2df910e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-pathlib2/python-pathlib2.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# python-pathlib2
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PYTHON_PATHLIB2_VERSION = 2.2.1
+PYTHON_PATHLIB2_SOURCE = pathlib2-$(PYTHON_PATHLIB2_VERSION).tar.gz
+PYTHON_PATHLIB2_SITE = https://pypi.python.org/packages/ab/d8/ac7489d50146f29d0a14f65545698f4545d8a6b739b24b05859942048b56
+PYTHON_PATHLIB2_LICENSE = MIT
+PYTHON_PATHLIB2_LICENSE_FILE = LICENSE.rst
+PYTHON_PATHLIB2_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
+
+$(eval $(python-package))