diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 0dcadcbfb20f..9954895f286b 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -40,3 +40,7 @@
 [submodule "community-build/community-projects/scala-xml"]
 	path = community-build/community-projects/scala-xml
 	url = https://github.com/scala/scala-xml
+[submodule "community-build/community-projects/shapeless"]
+	path = community-build/community-projects/shapeless
+	url = https://github.com/milessabin/shapeless
+	branch = shapeless-3
diff --git a/community-build/community-projects/shapeless b/community-build/community-projects/shapeless
new file mode 160000
index 000000000000..45c822930230
--- /dev/null
+++ b/community-build/community-projects/shapeless
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 45c822930230b8990b9fbe07fd329f8354476cc3
diff --git a/community-build/test/scala/dotty/communitybuild/CommunityBuildTest.scala b/community-build/test/scala/dotty/communitybuild/CommunityBuildTest.scala
index 6f956bb0d8d3..8922466503a8 100644
--- a/community-build/test/scala/dotty/communitybuild/CommunityBuildTest.scala
+++ b/community-build/test/scala/dotty/communitybuild/CommunityBuildTest.scala
@@ -171,6 +171,12 @@ class CommunityBuildTest {
     extraSbtArgs  = Seq("-Dscala.build.compileWithDotty=true")
   )
 
+  @Test def shapeless = test(
+    project       = "shapeless",
+    testCommand   = "test",
+    updateCommand = "update"
+  )
+
   // TODO @oderky? It got broken by #5458
   // @Test def pdbp = test(
   //   project       = "pdbp",