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Port details

www/owncast 0.2.1_17

Self-hosted streaming service written in Go

Port info

Maintainer
de-freebsd@ctseuro.com
Packages
latest: 0.2.1_17
Upstream
Higher version available: 0.3.0
Last update
to 0.2.1_17 · d81b7ba3c3
Quarterly
2026Q4: 0.2.1_17 · last MFH 60647eff54
WWW
https://owncast.online
Links
cgit · VuXML

Install

Package
# pkg install owncast
installs 0.2.1_17 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 0.2.1_17
Port
# cd /usr/ports/www/owncast && make install clean
Size
27 MiB download · 110 MiB installed
Depends on
multimedia/ffmpeg 9.0.2_2,1
License
MIT
Creates
user owncast, group owncast
pkg-message
Shown after installing
You can activate your owncast server by typing
sysrc owncast_enable="YES"
service owncast start

Your server is listening via http on port 8080, just point your browser to
http://<ip_address>:8080/admin to configure it (default user is admin / abc123).

It is recommended to use a reverse proxy (eg. nginx) to serve your owncast
instance via https - see https://owncast.online/docs/sslproxies/ for more info

Packages by version and architecture

latest

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 160.2.1_170.2.1_16–
FreeBSD 150.2.1_170.2.1_16–
FreeBSD 140.2.1_170.2.1_160.2.1_17

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 150.2.1_170.2.1_16–
FreeBSD 140.2.1_170.2.1_160.2.1_17

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 0.2.1_17.

Fixed (0)

No VuXML entries for this package.

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

None.

Commits (54)

Hiroki Tagato (tagattie) · 0.0.10
www/owncast: update to 0.0.10

Changelog:
- https://github.com/owncast/owncast/releases/tag/v0.0.8
- https://github.com/owncast/owncast/releases/tag/v0.0.9
- https://github.com/owncast/owncast/releases/tag/v0.0.10

PR:		259934
Approved by:	de-freebsd@ctseuro.com (maintainer timeout, >3 weeks)
17d04a615e
Stefan Eßer (se) · 0.0.7
www/owncast: remove rc.d entry from pkg-plist

The file etc/rc.d/owncast is already automatically included in the
PLIST due to USE_RC_SUBR=owncast in the port's Makefile.

This commit does not change the generated package but it removes a
warning printed by the pkg command.
e5a6660d35
Stefan Eßer (se) · 0.0.7
www/owncast: upgrade to version 0.0.7

PR:		256241
Obtained from:	CTS - FreeBSD Team <de-freebsd@ctseuro.com>
b2df129b44
Stefan Eßer (se) · 0.0.6
www/owncast: new port of a self-hosted streaming service

PR:		255439
Obtained from:	Markus Mann, de-freebsd at ctseuro.com
0c973ae855