diff --git a/base/sysimg.jl b/base/sysimg.jl
index bfd57c28f28583..05e4fd3a0cb35d 100644
--- a/base/sysimg.jl
+++ b/base/sysimg.jl
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ let
             :Serialization,
             :Libdl,
             :Markdown,
+            :MbedTLS,
             :LibGit2,
             :Logging,
             :Sockets,
diff --git a/deps/checksums/MbedTLS-3c2856d44e61028f91d723e8c5d16c4808246def.tar.gz/md5 b/deps/checksums/MbedTLS-3c2856d44e61028f91d723e8c5d16c4808246def.tar.gz/md5
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..f213251b7c0435
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deps/checksums/MbedTLS-3c2856d44e61028f91d723e8c5d16c4808246def.tar.gz/md5
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+308e6a13537f8882828f5358debbe644
diff --git a/deps/checksums/MbedTLS-3c2856d44e61028f91d723e8c5d16c4808246def.tar.gz/sha512 b/deps/checksums/MbedTLS-3c2856d44e61028f91d723e8c5d16c4808246def.tar.gz/sha512
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..c57d9cabe5aa27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deps/checksums/MbedTLS-3c2856d44e61028f91d723e8c5d16c4808246def.tar.gz/sha512
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0f6169026e74ea2e9461cb97576bf9661e9c1198d03c08121710884f2380f29c1cebd112eda486765aa985229034dc885900839f9f356d59fedf4b1f569f97bd
diff --git a/stdlib/Makefile b/stdlib/Makefile
index a08a672b22422d..7259bb69884209 100644
--- a/stdlib/Makefile
+++ b/stdlib/Makefile
@@ -18,10 +18,13 @@ STDLIBS = Base64 CRC32c Dates DelimitedFiles Distributed FileWatching \
           Future InteractiveUtils Libdl LibGit2 LinearAlgebra Logging \
           Markdown Mmap Printf Profile Random REPL Serialization SHA \
           SharedArrays Sockets SparseArrays Statistics SuiteSparse Test Unicode UUIDs
-STDLIBS_EXT = Pkg
+STDLIBS_EXT = Pkg MbedTLS
 PKG_GIT_URL := git://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl.git
 PKG_TAR_URL = https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/tarball/$1
 
+MBEDTLS_GIT_URL := git://github.com/JuliaWeb/MbedTLS.jl.git
+MBEDTLS_TAR_URL = https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaWeb/MbedTLS.jl/tarball/$1
+
 $(foreach module, $(STDLIBS_EXT), $(eval $(call stdlib-external,$(module),$(shell echo $(module) | tr a-z A-Z))))
 
 # Generate symlinks to all stdlibs at usr/share/julia/stdlib/vX.Y/
diff --git a/stdlib/MbedTLS.version b/stdlib/MbedTLS.version
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..3e9d689950704f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stdlib/MbedTLS.version
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+MBEDTLS_BRANCH = jq/stdlib
+MBEDTLS_SHA1 = 3c2856d44e61028f91d723e8c5d16c4808246def
diff --git a/test/precompile.jl b/test/precompile.jl
index a5c6ada8dfae9c..117fe1ed56a6b7 100644
--- a/test/precompile.jl
+++ b/test/precompile.jl
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ try
                      Base.PkgId(m) => Base.module_build_id(m)
                  end for s in
                 [:Base64, :CRC32c, :Dates, :DelimitedFiles, :Distributed, :FileWatching, :Markdown,
-                 :Future, :Libdl, :LinearAlgebra, :Logging, :Mmap, :Printf,
+                 :Future, :Libdl, :LinearAlgebra, :Logging, :Mmap, :Printf, :MbedTLS,
                  :Profile, :Random, :Serialization, :SharedArrays, :SparseArrays, :SuiteSparse, :Test,
                  :Unicode, :REPL, :InteractiveUtils, :Pkg, :LibGit2, :SHA, :UUIDs, :Sockets,
                  :Statistics, ]),