diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-acora.yml b/.github/workflows/build-acora.yml
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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 The RISE Project
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+---
+name: Build acora wheels (riscv64)
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      version:
+        description: 'Version glob to (re)build; empty builds every version of docs/packages/acora.yaml not released yet'
+        required: false
+        default: ''
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - '.github/workflows/build-acora.yml'
+      - 'docs/packages/acora.yaml'
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - '.github/workflows/build-acora.yml'
+      - 'docs/packages/acora.yaml'
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read  # to fetch code (actions/checkout)
+
+env:
+  MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE: quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_39_riscv64
+
+jobs:
+  setup:
+    uses: $/.github/workflows/_setup.yml
+    with:
+      package: acora
+      version: ${{ inputs.version }}
+
+  build_sdist:
+    needs: [setup]
+    if: needs.setup.outputs.versions != '[]'
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        version: ${{ fromJSON(needs.setup.outputs.versions) }}
+    name: Build acora ${{ matrix.version }} sdist
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+    env:
+      ACORA_VERSION: ${{ matrix.version }}
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout acora acora-${{ env.ACORA_VERSION }}
+        uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          repository: scoder/acora
+          ref: acora-${{ env.ACORA_VERSION }}
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: setup uv
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@20cfd1bf945f4377ade1205e4dbc17946fc9a30d  # v10.0.1
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.12'
+          activate-environment: true
+          enable-cache: false
+
+      - name: Build sdist
+        run: |
+          uv pip install setuptools wheel "Cython>=3.0.11"
+          python setup.py sdist
+
+      - name: Upload sdist artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          name: acora-${{ env.ACORA_VERSION }}-sdist
+          path: dist/*.tar.gz
+          if-no-files-found: error
+
+  build_wheels:
+    needs: [setup, build_sdist]
+    if: needs.setup.outputs.versions != '[]'
+    name: Build acora ${{ matrix.version }} ${{ matrix.python }}-manylinux_riscv64
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-riscv
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        version: ${{ fromJSON(needs.setup.outputs.versions) }}
+        python: ["cp312", "cp313", "cp314", "cp314t"]
+    env:
+      ACORA_VERSION: ${{ matrix.version }}
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Download sdist
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@3e5f45b2cfb9172054b4087a40e8e0b5a5461e7c  # v8.0.1
+        with:
+          name: acora-${{ env.ACORA_VERSION }}-sdist
+          path: dist/
+
+      - id: sdist_path
+        run: echo "path=$(echo dist/*.tar.gz)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+      - name: Build wheels
+        uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@1828c10ab37f080699c7b81cea34097c684a7074  # v4.2.0
+        with:
+          package-dir: ${{ steps.sdist_path.outputs.path }}
+          output-dir: wheelhouse/
+        env:
+          CIBW_BUILD: ${{ matrix.python }}-manylinux_riscv64
+          CIBW_MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE: ${{ env.MANYLINUX_RISCV64_IMAGE }}
+          # test.py sits next to the acora/ source package at the sdist root; without
+          # staging it would shadow the installed wheel (gotcha 25).
+          CIBW_TEST_SOURCES: test.py README.rst
+          CIBW_TEST_COMMAND: python test.py -v
+
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          name: acora-${{ env.ACORA_VERSION }}-${{ matrix.python }}-manylinux_riscv64
+          path: wheelhouse/*.whl
+          if-no-files-found: error
+
+  publish:
+    name: Publish acora ${{ matrix.version }}
+    needs: [setup, build_wheels]
+    if: needs.setup.outputs.versions != '[]'
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        version: ${{ fromJSON(needs.setup.outputs.versions) }}
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      pull-requests: write
+    uses: $/.github/workflows/_publish-wheel.yml
+    secrets:
+      app-private-key: ${{ secrets.RISEPROJECT_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}
+    with:
+      artifact-pattern: acora-${{ matrix.version }}-*-manylinux_riscv64
diff --git a/docs/packages/acora.yaml b/docs/packages/acora.yaml
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+package-name: acora
+source-code: https://github.com/scoder/acora
+license: BSD-3-Clause
+versions:
+- version: 2.5