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

Contact: Tobias C. Berner <portmgr-secretary@FreeBSD.org>
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.

In the last quarter, we welcomed Xavier Beaudouin (kiwi@) as a new ports committer.

According to INDEX, there are currently 36,332 (down from 36,504) ports in the Ports Collection. There are currently about 3,368 (down from 3,379) open ports PRs, of which 809 are unassigned.

The last quarter saw 10,640 commits (down from 11,594) by 155 committers (one less) on the main branch and 733 commits (down from 832) by 61 committers (down from 78) on the 2024Q4 branch.

The number of ports also decreased (down from 36,504).

The most active committers to main were:

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

Three new USES were introduced:

During the last quarter, pkgmgr@ ran 14 exp-runs to test various ports upgrades and changes to bsd.port.mk.