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Port details

news/tin 2.6.6

Easy-to-use threaded newsreader with NOV/NNTP support

Port info

Maintainer
kbowling@FreeBSD.org
Packages
latest: 2.6.6
Upstream
up to date
Last update
to 2.6.6 · 30529de251
Quarterly
2026Q4: 2.6.6
WWW
http://www.tin.org/
Links
cgit · VuXML · Report wrong data

Install

Package
# pkg install tin
installs 2.6.6 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 2.6.6
Port
# cd /usr/ports/news/tin && make install clean
# make -C /usr/ports/news/tin config  # change options first
Size
805 KiB download · 3.1 MiB installed
Depends on
converters/uulib 0.5.20_3, devel/gettext-runtime 1.0_1, devel/icu 76.1,1, devel/pcre2 10.49, dns/libidn2 2.3.8, mail/metamail 2.7_16, misc/mime-support 3.66_1, net/uriparser 1.0.2, news/libcanlock 3.3.4, security/gnupg 2.5.21, textproc/aspell-ispell 0.60.8.2, textproc/libexttextcat 3.4.8
License
BSD3CLAUSE
Options
6 of 8 on in the package: CANLOCK GNUPG ISPELL METAMAIL NLS NNTPS
Show the 2 options that are off
NNTP_ONLY SLRNFACE

Packages by version and architecture

latest

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 162.6.62.6.6–
FreeBSD 152.6.62.6.6–
FreeBSD 142.6.62.6.62.6.6

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 152.6.62.6.6–
FreeBSD 142.6.62.6.62.6.6

version as in the ports tree (latest) or the most common one (quarterly) · different version · ✗ not built · – no packages for this platform. Package sets that have not been rebuilt for 60 days are left out.

Unaddressed and VuXML only (0)

No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by pkg audit for the packaged version 2.6.6.

Fixed (1)

Show 1 fixed
VuXML entries whose affected range the packaged version has left.

Problem reports (0) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first

None.

Commits (244)

Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 1.7.9
@unexec rmdir %D/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES @unexec rmdir %D/share/locale/rw
ea772f2c27
Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 1.7.9
Upgrade to 1.7.9
c286e648be
Volker Stolz (vs) · 1.7.8
Fix build when WITH_TIN_CANLOCK is defined

PR:		ports/79400
Submitted by:	trasz AT buziaczek DOT pl
Approved by:	maintainer timeout
e0de789fb8
Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 1.7.8
Upgrade to 1.7.8
34e54482df
Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 1.7.7
Upgrade to 1.7.7
993954666b
Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 1.6.2_2
Use += for CONFIGURE_ARGS to help slave ports

Submitted by:   Clive Lin <clive@tongi.org>
a8ade8504e
Kirill Ponomarev (krion) · 1.6.2_2
- Use USE_ICONV knob

Approved by:	portmgr
a9f6551306
Trevor Johnson (trevor) · 1.6.2_2
Add size data, approved by maintainers.
a1bc8c46f5
Joe Marcus Clarke (marcus) · 1.6.2_2
Add USE_GETTEXT and bump PORTREVISION.

Submitted by:	trevor
Tested by:	bento
186b8ba82f
Trevor Johnson (trevor) · 1.6.2_1
Now gettext 0.12.1 is gettext-old.
78da40aa98
Clement Laforet (clement) · 1.6.2_1
- Chase uulib version - Bump PORTREVISION

Approved by:    erwin (mentor) (implicitly)
5209c775f1
David E. O'Brien (obrien) · 1.6.2
Allow the default compiled-in editor to be easily changed.
56ec3e8fa5
Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 1.6.2
Upgrade to 1.6.2

Submitted by:   Thomas Seck <tmseck@netcologne.de>
ad7eb5ea3a
Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 1.6.1_2
Use PCRE from ports
11e9fca49a
Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 1.6.1_1
Add optional CANLOCK functionality

Submitted by:   Thomas Seck <tmseck@netcologne.de>
99ef5b4fc3
Joe Marcus Clarke (marcus) · 1.6.1_1
Bump the PORTREVISION for the ports directly affected by the gettext upgrade.

Prodded by:	kris
a3108b1e51
Joe Marcus Clarke (marcus) · 1.6.1
Chase the libintl.so shared lib version.
adccc29aad
Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 1.6.1
Upgrade to 1.6.1 Spaces->tabs

Submitted by:   krion
2fe7c9bc09
David E. O'Brien (obrien) · 1.6.0
Add pgp5 support, as the pgp6 port is marked broken.
4c263cafbc
Dmitry Sivachenko (demon) · 1.6.0
Update to version 1.6.0.

Approved by:	maintainer
341065df05
Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 1.5.18
Upgrade to 1.5.18

Submitted by:   demon
2b30f743d4
Dmitry Sivachenko (demon) · 1.5.17
Update to version 1.5.17.

Approved by:	ache the maintainer
7d666be776
Ade Lovett (ade) · 1.5.16_3
Clear moonlight beckons. Requiem mors pacem pkg-comment, And be calm ports tree.

E Nomini Patri, E Fili, E Spiritu Sancti.
7e52725f2a
Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 1.5.16_3
Back out previous commit. It is incorrect and not approved.
de85101afc
Edwin Groothuis (edwin) · 1.5.16_3
According to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/news/tin/distinfo, revision 70 was the last one with the right md5 checksum for the tarball of 1.5.16.

PR:		ports/48265
Submitted by:	Krzysztof Stryjek <wtp@kryptos.mud.pl>
dc2a8caa07
Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 1.5.16_3
Return from 1.5.17 (snapshot) to 1.5.16 (stable)
1323b43603
David E. O'Brien (obrien) · 1.5.17
Upgrade to 1.5.17 due to 1.5.16 distfile being rm'ed from master site. Also add more master sites.
34c42c9b6c
David E. O'Brien (obrien) · 1.5.17
Upgrade to 1.5.17 due to 1.5.16 distfile being rm'ed from master site. Also add more master sites.
a3d21b531c
David E. O'Brien (obrien) · 1.5.16_2
My ftp mirroring of tin has stopped.
dc1f9c77b2
Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 1.5.16_2
Upgrade to 20030122 snapshot
88b3d4da58
Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 1.5.16_1
Upgrade to 20030113 snapshot

PR:             47016
Submitted by:   Philip Paeps <philip@paeps.cx>
f539343b3f
Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 1.5.16
Upgrade to 1.5.16
fbbe587d2e
Tim Vanderhoek (hoek) · 1.5.12_1
Use a full sentence structure and also add WWW: http://www.tin.org/
1e5f9ce906
Tim Vanderhoek (hoek) · 1.5.12_1
Previous shlib update should have also bumped PORTREVISION (reminded by knu).
c055be82b4
Tim Vanderhoek (hoek) · 1.5.12
Update libuu shared lib dependency to version 2
3c5732e6a5
Ade Lovett (ade) · 1.5.12
Chase shlib rev of devel/gettext

Submitted by:	lots and lots
Pointy hat to:	ade
c8eaa93644
Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 1.5.12
Upgrade to 1.5.12 Add ipv6 support

Submitted by:	Xander Jansen <Xander.Jansen@surfnet.nl> (ipv6)
1e2bb9d2d1
Ade Lovett (ade) · 1.5.11_1
gettext upgrade uber-patch (stage 3)

- switch devel/gettext (0.11.1) on, installing full package
- flip devel/gettext-old (0.10.35) to installing only static binaries
  with a "-old" suffix -- gettext-old will have its deorbit burn
  sequence initiated just after 4.6-RELEASE
- fix up ports for the new world order

Reviewed by:	portmgr
f18cbf2fa6
Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 1.5.11
Upgrade to 1.5.11
9f006a3276
Maxim Sobolev (sobomax) · 1.5.10_1
Iconv cleanup, stage 2a: remove patches that only replacing <iconv.h> with <giconv.h> or -liconv with -lgiconv.
449a928eea
Akinori MUSHA (knu) · 1.5.10_1
Bump PORTREVISION to reflect the (lib)iconv upgrade.
21d944be5c
Maxim Sobolev (sobomax) · 1.5.10
Iconv cleanup, stage 1b: correct {BUILD,LIB,RUN}_DEPENDS of all ports that need libiconv.
8493a5819b
Ade Lovett (ade) · 1.5.10
Stage 1 of gettext update.

Move gettext (0.10.35) with gettext-old
Update gettext from gettext-devel (0.10.40)
Remove gettext-devel
Fix dependencies

Stage 2 will involve upgraded gettext to 0.11 and fixing issues
Stage 3 involves a de-orbit burn sequence for gettext-old

Reviewed by:	portmgr
9210b7cb07
Akinori MUSHA (knu) · 1.5.10
Use ${ECHO_CMD} instead of ${ECHO} where you mean the echo command; the ECHO macro is set to "echo" by default, but it is set to "true" if make(1) is invoked with the -s option while ECHO_CMD is always set to the echo command.
897d06aa97
FUJISHIMA Satsuki (sf) · 1.5.10
o fix build: catch false condition. o portlint.

PR:	33167(build error)
8624262e8d
Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 1.5.10
Upgrade to 1.5.10
83955fdc1a
Kris Kennaway (kris) · 1.5.9
Remove tin.5 on deinstall

Submitted by:	bento
e7cf917330
Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 1.5.9
Add WITH_TIN_ to variable
053d74483a
Andrey A. Chernov (ache) · 1.5.9
Upgrade to 1.5.9
66976d0239
Jimmy Olgeni (olgeni) · 1.5.8
Add management of etc/tin.defaults to pkg-plist.
da399ca8a6