diff --git a/manifest.dhall b/manifest.dhall
index ad4487353252131cde3e4eef6c8299eb7ab3c8ef..60349fad55a5a885ddc61f8affbdbaa25facb20b 100644
--- a/manifest.dhall
+++ b/manifest.dhall
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ in  [ callHackage "Cabal" "3.8.1.0"
     , callHackage "autodocodec-servant-multipart" "0.0.0.0"
     , callHackage "autodocodec-yaml" "0.2.0.2"
     , callHackage "barbies" "2.0.3.1"
+    , callHackage "base-orphans" "0.8.7"
     , callHackage "basement" "0.0.15"
     , callHackage "base16-bytestring" "1.0.2.0"
     , callHackage "base64" "0.4.2.4"
diff --git a/overlay.nix b/overlay.nix
index d03c6b4249e854287ad2f7538f0b9ebd8b0f4886..808772f5fc8e76a83e8e1324f947bdcb2b97c9e6 100644
--- a/overlay.nix
+++ b/overlay.nix
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ self: with pkgs.haskell.lib; {
 
   base-compat-batteries = self.callPackage (./pkgs/base-compat-batteries.nix) { };
 
+  base-orphans = self.callPackage (./pkgs/base-orphans.nix) { };
+
   base16-bytestring = self.callPackage (./pkgs/base16-bytestring.nix) { };
 
   base64 = self.callPackage (./pkgs/base64.nix) { };
diff --git a/pkgs/base-orphans.nix b/pkgs/base-orphans.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e4daceb2e6d82eaccd599cf85953ea868eccd5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/base-orphans.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{ mkDerivation
+, base
+, ghc-prim
+, hspec
+, hspec-discover
+, lib
+, QuickCheck
+}:
+mkDerivation {
+  pname = "base-orphans";
+  version = "0.8.7";
+  sha256 = "888fd67f0dbe932778f5b170922ce80d0dcab1680ee98f1d6fcc362f20d9e447";
+  isLibrary = true;
+  isExecutable = false;
+  enableSeparateDataOutput = false;
+  libraryHaskellDepends = [ base ghc-prim ];
+  testHaskellDepends = [ base hspec QuickCheck ];
+  testToolDepends = [ hspec-discover ];
+  enableLibraryProfiling = false;
+  enableExecutableProfiling = false;
+  doHaddock = false;
+  jailbreak = true;
+  doCheck = false;
+  doBenchmark = false;
+  hyperlinkSource = false;
+  homepage = "https://github.com/haskell-compat/base-orphans#readme";
+  description = "Backwards-compatible orphan instances for base";
+  license = lib.licenses.mit;
+  broken = false;
+}