diff --git a/support/docker/Dockerfile b/support/docker/Dockerfile
index d10d0beb27..8b8a478f66 100644
--- a/support/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/support/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ LABEL maintainer="Buildroot mailing list <buildroot@buildroot.org>" \
       vendor="Buildroot" \
 description="Container with everything needed to run Buildroot"
 
+# We need tar >= 1.35
+ARG TAR_VERSION="1.35"
+
 # Setup environment
 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
 
@@ -57,6 +60,16 @@ RUN apt-get -o APT::Retries=3 install -y --no-install-recommends \
     apt-get -y autoremove && \
     apt-get -y clean
 
+# Build host-tar
+RUN curl -sfL https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/tar/tar-${TAR_VERSION}.tar.xz | \
+    tar -Jx -C /tmp && \
+    cd /tmp/tar-${TAR_VERSION} && \
+    FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 ./configure \
+        --disable-year2028 && \
+    make && \
+    make install && \
+    rm -rf /tmp/tar-${TAR_VERSION}
+
 # To be able to generate a toolchain with locales, enable one UTF-8 locale
 RUN sed -i 's/# \(en_US.UTF-8\)/\1/' /etc/locale.gen && \
     /usr/sbin/locale-gen