diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index 5515d46ca5..2bd2fbe3a5 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -522,6 +522,7 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-meta-world-pkgdata = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxf
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-mingetty = "Yi Zhao <yi.zhao@windriver.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-mini-x-session = "Unassigned <unassigned@yoctoproject.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-minicom = "Anuj Mittal <anuj.mittal@intel.com>"
+RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-minizip = "Mingli Yu <mingli.yu@windriver.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-mkfontscale = "Unassigned <unassigned@yoctoproject.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-mmc-utils = "Anuj Mittal <anuj.mittal@intel.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-mobile-broadband-provider-info = "Unassigned <unassigned@yoctoproject.org>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/minizip/minizip_1.3.1.bb b/meta/recipes-core/minizip/minizip_1.3.1.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c9c92ad6bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/minizip/minizip_1.3.1.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+SUMMARY = "Minizip Compression Library"
+DESCRIPTION = "Minizip is a general-purpose, patent-free, lossless data compression \
+library which is used by many different programs."
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/minizip.html"
+SECTION = "libs"
+LICENSE = "Zlib"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://zip.h;beginline=14;endline=30;md5=8eaa8535a3a1a2296b303f40f75385e7"
+
+SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/libpng/zlib/${PV}/zlib-${PV}.tar.gz"
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "http://zlib.net/"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/zlib-${PV}/contrib/minizip"
+
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "9a93b2b7dfdac77ceba5a558a580e74667dd6fede4585b91eefb60f03b72df23"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "demos"
+PACKAGECONFIG[demos] = "--enable-demos=yes,,,"
+
+DEPENDS = "zlib"
+
+inherit autotools
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"