diff --git a/DEVELOPERS b/DEVELOPERS
index fdfab8b489..1601e6b408 100644
--- a/DEVELOPERS
+++ b/DEVELOPERS
@@ -533,6 +533,7 @@ F:	package/unixodbc/
 F:	package/utfcpp/
 F:	package/vlc/
 F:	package/wget/
+F:	package/wget2/
 F:	package/wireless-regdb/
 F:	package/wireless_tools/
 F:	package/x264/
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index b6f23308af..015f635ad1 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -2665,6 +2665,7 @@ endif
 	source "package/vtun/Config.in"
 	source "package/wavemon/Config.in"
 	source "package/wget/Config.in"
+	source "package/wget2/Config.in"
 	source "package/whois/Config.in"
 	source "package/wireguard-linux-compat/Config.in"
 	source "package/wireguard-tools/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/wget2/Config.in b/package/wget2/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9be8971489
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/wget2/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_WGET2
+	bool "wget2"
+	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # fork()
+	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL if !BR2_PACKAGE_GNUTLS
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBOPENSSL_ENABLE_RMD160 if BR2_PACKAGE_LIBOPENSSL
+	help
+	  GNU Wget2 is the successor of GNU Wget, a file and recursive
+	  website downloader.
+
+	  https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2
+
+comment "wget2 needs a toolchain w/ wchar"
+	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
+	depends on !BR2_USE_WCHAR
diff --git a/package/wget2/wget2.hash b/package/wget2/wget2.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0e5742aed4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/wget2/wget2.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# Locally calculated
+sha256  d7544b13e37f18e601244fce5f5f40688ac1d6ab9541e0fbb01a32ee1fb447b4  wget2-2.2.1.tar.gz
+sha256  e79e9c8a0c85d735ff98185918ec94ed7d175efc377012787aebcf3b80f0d90b  COPYING
+sha256  e3a994d82e644b03a792a930f574002658412f62407f5fee083f2555c5f23118  COPYING.LESSER
diff --git a/package/wget2/wget2.mk b/package/wget2/wget2.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..21005bd708
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/wget2/wget2.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# wget2
+#
+################################################################################
+
+WGET2_VERSION = 2.2.1
+WGET2_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/wget
+WGET2_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf
+WGET2_LICENSE = GPL-3.0+, LGPL-3.0+
+WGET2_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING COPYING.LESSER
+WGET2_CPE_ID_VENDOR = gnu
+
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS = \
+	--without-libhsts \
+	--without-libmicrohttpd \
+	--without-lzip
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_BROTLI),y)
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --with-brotlidec
+WGET2_DEPENDENCIES += brotli
+else
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --without-brotlidec
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_BZIP2),y)
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --with-bzip2
+WGET2_DEPENDENCIES += bzip2
+else
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --without-bzip2
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_GNUTLS),y)
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --with-ssl=gnutls
+WGET2_DEPENDENCIES += gnutls
+else ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL),y)
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --with-ssl=openssl
+WGET2_DEPENDENCIES += openssl
+else
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --without-ssl
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGPGME),y)
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --with-gpgme
+WGET2_DEPENDENCIES += libgpgme
+else
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --without-gpgme
+endif
+
+# BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE and BR2_PACKAGE_LIBICONV are mutually exclusive
+ifeq ($(BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE)$(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBICONV)$(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBIDN2),yy)
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --with-libidn2
+WGET2_DEPENDENCIES += libidn2
+else
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --without-libidn2
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBPSL),y)
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --with-libpsl
+WGET2_DEPENDENCIES += libpsl
+else
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --without-libpsl
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_NGHTTP2),y)
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --with-libnghttp2
+WGET2_DEPENDENCIES += nghttp2
+else
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --without-libnghttp2
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PCRE2),y)
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --with-libpcre2
+WGET2_DEPENDENCIES += pcre2
+else
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --without-libpcre2
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_XZ),y)
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --with-lzma
+WGET2_DEPENDENCIES += xz
+else
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --without-lzma
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB),y)
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --with-zlib
+WGET2_DEPENDENCIES += zlib
+else
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --without-zlib
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_ZSTD),y)
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --with-zstd
+WGET2_DEPENDENCIES += zstd
+else
+WGET2_CONF_OPTS += --without-zstd
+endif
+
+$(eval $(autotools-package))