diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 4a1c3d05..f1b10395 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -103,3 +103,6 @@
 [submodule "qtenginio"]
 	path = qtenginio
 	url = ../qtenginio.git
+[submodule "qtwebsockets"]
+	path = qtwebsockets
+	url = ../qtwebsockets.git
diff --git a/init-repository b/init-repository
index 272193d8..8ad799ad 100755
--- a/init-repository
+++ b/init-repository
@@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ my %GERRIT_REPOS = map { $_ => "qt/$_" } qw(
     qtwayland
     qtwebkit
     qtwebkit-examples
+    qtwebsockets
     qtwinextras
     qtx11extras
     qtxmlpatterns
@@ -258,6 +259,7 @@ my @DEFAULT_REPOS = qw(
     qtsvg
     qttools
     qttranslations
+    qtwebsockets
     qtwebkit
     qtwebkit-examples
     qtwinextras
diff --git a/qt.pro b/qt.pro
index 426cc871..d0edc030 100644
--- a/qt.pro
+++ b/qt.pro
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ addModule(qtdocgallery, qtdeclarative, qtjsondb)
 !win32:!mac:addModule(qtwayland, qtbase, qtdeclarative)
 addModule(qtserialport, qtbase)
 addModule(qtenginio, qtdeclarative)
+addModule(qtwebsockets, qtbase, qtdeclarative)
 addModule(qttranslations, qttools)
 addModule(qtdoc, qtdeclarative)
 addModule(qtqa, qtbase)
diff --git a/qtwebsockets b/qtwebsockets
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..1edb9b0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qtwebsockets
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 1edb9b0d43d9ad688fb21f93f04922ab4542f760