diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
index 02ac44d13b..3f476d0518 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
@@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-oe-fortran-packages = "\
 # opencl-headers sdbus-c++-libsystemd boost-url nlohmann-fifo sqlite-orm
 # nlohmann-json exprtk liblightmodbus p8platform gnome-doc-utils-stub
 # glm ttf-mplus xbitmaps ceres-solver cli11 fftw gnulib libeigen ade
-# spdlog span-lite uthash websocketpp catch2 properties-cpp
+# spdlog span-lite uthash websocketpp catch2 properties-cpp cpp-netlib
 
 # rsyslog conflicts with syslog-ng so its not included here
 
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/cpp-netlib/cpp-netlib_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/cpp-netlib/cpp-netlib_git.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..472b72fc2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/cpp-netlib/cpp-netlib_git.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+DESCRIPTION = "Modern C++ network programming libraries."
+
+# This library provides general purpose network functionality such as
+# socket communication to agent libraries. It was designed to be merged
+# into boost at some point and follows similar header library approach
+# for most functionality.
+
+SECTION = "libs"
+LICENSE = "BSL-1.0 & MIT & Python-2.0"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE_1_0.txt;md5=e4224ccaecb14d942c71d31bef20d78c"
+
+SRC_URI = "\
+    git://github.com/cpp-netlib/cpp-netlib.git;protocol=https;branch=0.13-release  \
+"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "0b9255bb0668d89867a1f367d770f12d7038db4f5b6111774ef032f669cccad4"
+
+SRCREV = "ca95f04d140acf619892ee02a82e930dd91ff7d4"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+inherit cmake pkgconfig
+
+DEPENDS = "zlib boost openssl"
+
+EXTRA_OECMAKE_append = " -DCPP-NETLIB_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DCPP-NETLIB_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF"
+