diff --git a/dev-crystal/spectator/Manifest b/dev-crystal/spectator/Manifest
index 400b38789b..b9fd81ee5d 100644
--- a/dev-crystal/spectator/Manifest
+++ b/dev-crystal/spectator/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-DIST spectator-0.12.1.tar.gz 156923 BLAKE2B a36c18c339d4cf295fd64433daf5d9c642858598dcd91e7adfe57f813e0e2a3adfaca7b42968b95eb332541e666b32d2b1a02931e0b68b7280d20b26a5d3e276 SHA512 f003e79608c5e4dd5965de446698e7bcb8049bc45185cbd7bfcb0a6523a77ca68d8d875b7985c1efce5533630845a9eb929c3aa26ec190f5613e5b450824f7d6
 DIST spectator-v0.12.2.tar.bz2 119342 BLAKE2B c677ffa18bb1e8b672d2a0e51cb3fd50eecc9262dc34a1a73b0dfa6056c9278443ae0a6bf30ab538b6c7e4014ee116f0b06659455b7a0fc7d73c38481d333484 SHA512 d2f5ca5d7f461263a3f4f58b3de5efd9c51fc00ede0add74254d2f90d3ddacc4474bf4b280b9d11b7dca31203bc3f4696a305ce374781712fb8ef420df726c4c
+DIST spectator-v0.12.4.tar.bz2 120393 BLAKE2B af1def2af2388d247ee109d9b62fac5d8e4cdabf1802cbfaec59817cf8564e6eba51ade3c92db0406424998c5d9f61a25bbe371838fbb3095e8f1edf2c6adf93 SHA512 d37e38ee78137fd04acd0a0328b2cd87c78ad82b36fbf937079bf8f5bfe33a812b55c7c148694063ab3b95526bd31f7e23d2c9ec11b1732fa7e1ae8c4ae43b88
diff --git a/dev-crystal/spectator/spectator-0.12.1-r1.ebuild b/dev-crystal/spectator/spectator-0.12.1-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 949b583c33..0000000000
--- a/dev-crystal/spectator/spectator-0.12.1-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2022-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-inherit shards
-
-DESCRIPTION="Feature-rich testing framework for Crystal inspired by RSpec"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/icy-arctic-fox/spectator"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/icy-arctic-fox/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-
-DOCS=( {ARCHITECTURE,CHANGELOG,CONTRIBUTING,README}.md )
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-
-	# remove a test that might fail to build (bug 945172)
-	rm spec/issues/github_issue_48_spec.cr || die
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	# adopted from .gitlab-ci.yml
-	shards_src_test spec/matchers/ spec/spectator/*.cr
-	shards_src_test spec/docs/
-	shards_src_test spec/features/
-	shards_src_test spec/issues/
-	shards_src_test spec/rspec/
-
-	# Build failure
-	#shards_src_test spec/spectator/dsl/
-
-	# Compile each test individually, because otherwise
-	# up to 3G of RAM is eaten by compilation.
-	local t
-	for t in spec/spectator/mocks/*; do
-		shards_src_test "${t}"
-	done
-}
diff --git a/dev-crystal/spectator/spectator-0.12.4.ebuild b/dev-crystal/spectator/spectator-0.12.4.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f059607321
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-crystal/spectator/spectator-0.12.4.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+# Copyright 2022-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=9
+
+inherit shards
+
+MY_P="${PN}-v${PV}"
+DESCRIPTION="Feature-rich testing framework for Crystal inspired by RSpec"
+HOMEPAGE="https://gitlab.com/arctic-fox/spectator"
+SRC_URI="https://gitlab.com/arctic-fox/${PN}/-/archive/v${PV}/${MY_P}.tar.bz2"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+DOCS=( {ARCHITECTURE,CHANGELOG,CONTRIBUTING,README}.md )
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	local tests_to_remove=(
+		# broken in v0.12.4
+		spec/rspec/expectations/contain_exactly_matcher_spec.cr
+		spec/spectator/mocks/mock_spec.cr
+
+		# bug #945172
+		spec/issues/github_issue_48_spec.cr
+	)
+
+	rm "${tests_to_remove[@]}" || die
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	# adopted from .gitlab-ci.yml
+	crystal_spec spec/matchers/ spec/spectator/*.cr
+	crystal_spec spec/docs/
+	crystal_spec spec/features/
+	crystal_spec spec/issues/
+	crystal_spec spec/rspec/
+
+	# Build failure
+	#crystal_spec spec/spectator/dsl/
+
+	# Compile each test individually, because otherwise
+	# up to 3G of RAM are eaten by compilation.
+	local t
+	for t in spec/spectator/mocks/*; do
+		crystal_spec "${t}"
+	done
+}