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.

During the last quarter, we welcomed Älven (alven@) and Tiago Gashiba (tiga@) as new ports committers, and said goodbye to six committers. We also promoted Dan Langille (dvl@) as a full portmgr member after successfully being on the lurker program.

According to INDEX, there are currently 37,163 (up from 36,605) ports in the Ports Collection. There are currently about 3,428 (up from 3,330) open ports PRs, of which 821 are unassigned. The last quarter saw 8,738 (down from 10,924) commits by 156 (down from 157) committers on the main branch and 898 (up from 770) commits by 61 (up from 56) committers on the 2025Q3 branch.

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:

During the last quarter, pkgmgr@ ran 12 exp-runs to test source code changes and various ports upgrades.