diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index a6f413caa9..5515d46ca5 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-eudev = "Anuj Mittal <anuj.mittal@intel.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-expat = "Yi Zhao <yi.zhao@windriver.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-expect = "Unassigned <unassigned@yoctoproject.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-ffmpeg = "Unassigned <unassigned@yoctoproject.org>"
+RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-fastfloat = "Markus Volk <f_l_k@t-online.de>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-file = "Yi Zhao <yi.zhao@windriver.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-findutils = "Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-flac = "Michael Opdenacker <michael@opdenacker.org>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/fastfloat/fastfloat_8.0.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/fastfloat/fastfloat_8.0.0.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6426a1d2ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/fastfloat/fastfloat_8.0.0.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+SUMMARY = "fast_float number parsing library: 4x faster than strtod"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/fastfloat/fast_float"
+LICENSE = "Apache-2.0 & BSL-1.0 & MIT"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
+	file://LICENSE-MIT;md5=32b11d50c7d9788d4270f6a83f3e68eb \
+	file://LICENSE-APACHE;md5=81db248e90379bcfc0582b578b009bc3 \
+	file://LICENSE-BOOST;md5=2c7a3fa82e66676005cd4ee2608fd7d2 \
+"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/fastfloat/fast_float.git;protocol=https;branch=main"
+
+SRCREV = "77cc847c842c49e7e3477c1e95da2b6540166d66"
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+inherit cmake