=== Ports Collection

Links: +
link:https://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/[About FreeBSD Ports] URL:link:https://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/[] +
link:https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing[Contributing to Ports] URL: link:https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing[] +
link:https://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/[Ports Management Team] URL: link:https://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/[] +
link:http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/[Ports Tarball] URL: link:http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/[]

Contact: FreeBSD Ports Management Team <portmgr@FreeBSD.org>

The Ports Management Team is responsible for overseeing the overall direction of the Ports Tree, building packages, and personnel matters.
Below is what happened in the last quarter.

During the last quarter, we welcomed Yusuf Yaman (nxjoseph), Kousuke Kannagi (mce), Piotr Smyrak (smyru), Laurent Chardon (laurent), and Kenneth Raplee (kenrap) as new ports committers, and said goodbye to one committer.

According to INDEX, there are currently 37,958 (up from 37,163) ports in the Ports Collection.
There are currently about 2,710 (down from 3,428) open ports PRs, of which 798 (down from 821) are unassigned.
The last quarter saw 8,970 (up from 8,738) commits by 166 (up from 156) committers on the main branch and 697 (down from 898) commits by 59 (down from 61) committers on the 2026Q1 branch.

The most active committers to main were:

- 2135 sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
-  800 yuri@FreeBSD.org
-  528 vvd@FreeBSD.org
-  312 bofh@FreeBSD.org
-  294 tagattie@FreeBSD.org
-  182 nivit@FreeBSD.org
-  177 arrowd@FreeBSD.org
-  175 eduardo@FreeBSD.org
-  153 fuz@FreeBSD.org
-  132 mfechner@FreeBSD.org

A lot has happened in the ports tree in the last three months, an excerpt of the major software upgrades are:

- pkg 2.6.2
- New USES: inotify
- Default version of Go switched to 1.25
- Default version of Java switched to 21 (and 11 on armv*)
- Default version of Lazarus switched to 4.6 (and 4.99 on aarch64 and powerpc*)
- Default version of MySQL switched to 8.4
- Default version of PostgreSQL switched to 18
- Chromium 146.0.7680.177
- Electron 40.8.3 added
- Firefox 149.0
- Firefox-esr 140.9.0
- KDE Plasma 6.6.3
- KDE Frameworks 6.24.0
- KDE Applications 25.12.3
- Qt6 6.10.2
- Ruby 3.2.10, 3.4.8, 4.0.1
- Rust 1.94.0
- SDL 3.2.30
- wlroots 0.20.0 added
- Wine 11.0

During the last quarter, pkgmgr@ ran 29 exp-runs to test various base system changes and ports upgrades.
