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Port details
zen Lightweight self-hosted notes application
1.5.0.20261008_1,1 www Σ=1 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 1.5.0.20260429_7,1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: dtxdf@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-05-27 20:57:06
Last Update: 2026-10-20 11:05:23
Commit Hash: d81b7ba
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License: AGPLv3
WWW:
https://www.sheshbabu.com/zen/
https://github.com/sheshbabu/zen
Description: #
zen is a self-hosted notes application. Features: - Single Go binary. - Low resource usage. - Standard Markdown files, local SQLite database. - Organize with flexible tags, not rigid folders. - Markdown features like tables, code blocks, task lists, highlights, and more. - Full-text search with BM25 ranking. - Import and export data with full portability. - Templates. - Pinned notes. - Archive and soft delete notes. - Minimal dependency footprint. - Automated backups.
HomepageHomepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages: #
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist #
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  1. bin/zen
  2. @dir(www,www,) /var/db/zen
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/zen-1.5.0.20261008_1,1/catalog.mk
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/zen-1.5.0.20261008_1,1/LICENSE
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/zen-1.5.0.20261008_1,1/AGPLv3
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • zen
Dependency lines:
  • zen>0:www/zen
To install the port: #
cd /usr/ports/www/zen/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install www/zen
  • pkg install zen
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: zen
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port. #
distinfo: #
TIMESTAMP = 1791508101 SHA256 (zen-1.5.0.20261008-6c716f7b17c5757ff282917963400ee679e2dfe4.frontend.tar.gz) = 1bf4c66a7a62b40184ffc35692ada74bbdcfc94adfdff16a21e9b8b3d5326c35 SIZE (zen-1.5.0.20261008-6c716f7b17c5757ff282917963400ee679e2dfe4.frontend.tar.gz) = 430378

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SHA256 (zen-1.5.0.20261008-6c716f7b17c5757ff282917963400ee679e2dfe4.vendor.tar.gz) = 379a61ec84ee0aaca151527b7a23e4e2f13d562fb13bd2e5a51be4cb0d6cc79a SIZE (zen-1.5.0.20261008-6c716f7b17c5757ff282917963400ee679e2dfe4.vendor.tar.gz) = 2640915 SHA256 (sheshbabu-zen-1.5.0.20261008-6c716f7b17c5757ff282917963400ee679e2dfe4_GH0.tar.gz) = f6bd7181380648b85ac8399e606710640059ee8ad029ef87174393b09af586f1 SIZE (sheshbabu-zen-1.5.0.20261008-6c716f7b17c5757ff282917963400ee679e2dfe4_GH0.tar.gz) = 710652

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Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC): #
zen
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386
FreeBSD:14:latest1.5.0.20261008,11.5.0.20261008_1,1--1.5.0.20261008_1,1
FreeBSD:14:quarterly1.5.0.20260429_6,11.5.0.20260429_7,1--1.5.0.20260429_7,1
FreeBSD:15:latest1.5.0.20261008,11.5.0.20261008_1,1n/a-n/a
FreeBSD:15:quarterly1.5.0.20260429_6,11.5.0.20260429_7,1n/a-n/a
FreeBSD:16:latest1.5.0.20261008,11.5.0.20261008_1,1n/a-n/a
Dependencies #
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies: #
  1. go127 : lang/go127
There are no ports dependent upon this port #
Configuration Options: #
No options to configure
Options name: #
www_zen
USES: #
go:modules
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message #
Master Sites: #
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/sheshbabu/zen/tar.gz/6c716f7b17c5757ff282917963400ee679e2dfe4?dummy=/
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Number of commits found: 11 #

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
1.5.0.20261008_1,1
20 Oct 2026 11:05:23
commit hash: d81b7ba3c3ab6c49f4a8ed0ef8aa4d70a78c9f0ccommit hash: d81b7ba3c3ab6c49f4a8ed0ef8aa4d70a78c9f0ccommit hash: d81b7ba3c3ab6c49f4a8ed0ef8aa4d70a78c9f0ccommit hash: d81b7ba3c3ab6c49f4a8ed0ef8aa4d70a78c9f0c files touched by this commit		 Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des) search for other commits by this committer 
various: Bump Go ports for Go 1.26.10 / 1.27.3
1.5.0.20261008,1
10 Oct 2026 00:47:10
commit hash: 7e99183f7275093a755838ba8a3c82676dd620e9commit hash: 7e99183f7275093a755838ba8a3c82676dd620e9commit hash: 7e99183f7275093a755838ba8a3c82676dd620e9commit hash: 7e99183f7275093a755838ba8a3c82676dd620e9 files touched by this commit		 Jesús Daniel Colmenares Oviedo (dtxdf) search for other commits by this committer 
www/zen: Update to 1.5.0.20261008
1.5.0.20260429_6,1
08 Oct 2026 20:44:12
commit hash: 031fc6bfbf58dd0aadc59bc428be611930856ffccommit hash: 031fc6bfbf58dd0aadc59bc428be611930856ffccommit hash: 031fc6bfbf58dd0aadc59bc428be611930856ffccommit hash: 031fc6bfbf58dd0aadc59bc428be611930856ffc files touched by this commit		 Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des) search for other commits by this committer 
various: Bump Go ports
1.5.0.20260429_5,1
03 Sep 2026 04:50:55
commit hash: dd0905142a9a35cdf8267e2706db9488b516ad01commit hash: dd0905142a9a35cdf8267e2706db9488b516ad01commit hash: dd0905142a9a35cdf8267e2706db9488b516ad01commit hash: dd0905142a9a35cdf8267e2706db9488b516ad01 files touched by this commit		 Adam Weinberger (adamw) search for other commits by this committer 
many: Bump go ports for 1.26.8 and 1.27.1
1.5.0.20260429_4,1
19 Aug 2026 17:39:04
commit hash: 4867821cd65241b6e8c0faa3ed76d67514594442commit hash: 4867821cd65241b6e8c0faa3ed76d67514594442commit hash: 4867821cd65241b6e8c0faa3ed76d67514594442commit hash: 4867821cd65241b6e8c0faa3ed76d67514594442 files touched by this commit		 Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des) search for other commits by this committer 
various: Bump go ports for go-1.25.14 / 1.26.7
1.5.0.20260429_3,1
14 Aug 2026 00:38:09
commit hash: 6d39dcf04e96d7cdbad58d1b7f27d25d8e3b75b8commit hash: 6d39dcf04e96d7cdbad58d1b7f27d25d8e3b75b8commit hash: 6d39dcf04e96d7cdbad58d1b7f27d25d8e3b75b8commit hash: 6d39dcf04e96d7cdbad58d1b7f27d25d8e3b75b8 files touched by this commit		 Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des) search for other commits by this committer 
various: Bump go ports for go-1.25.13 / 1.26.6
1.5.0.20260429_2,1
08 Aug 2026 20:50:38
commit hash: 4a24b8eb7ffb6167a5c3d6e9c0865fbf09c5db11commit hash: 4a24b8eb7ffb6167a5c3d6e9c0865fbf09c5db11commit hash: 4a24b8eb7ffb6167a5c3d6e9c0865fbf09c5db11commit hash: 4a24b8eb7ffb6167a5c3d6e9c0865fbf09c5db11 files touched by this commit		 Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des) search for other commits by this committer 
various: Drop Go 1.25+ version pin

This is a nop since 1.25 is the oldest version we support.
1.5.0.20260429_2,1
10 Jul 2026 07:54:15
commit hash: 4ea354713284ca756537346a9ebc6df56184ed31commit hash: 4ea354713284ca756537346a9ebc6df56184ed31commit hash: 4ea354713284ca756537346a9ebc6df56184ed31commit hash: 4ea354713284ca756537346a9ebc6df56184ed31 files touched by this commit		 Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des) search for other commits by this committer 
various: Bump go ports for go-1.25.12 / 1.26.5
1.5.0.20260429_1,1
03 Jun 2026 17:54:22
commit hash: dd8dc2a59ddc46a12ace1cc4f7a953de512853bdcommit hash: dd8dc2a59ddc46a12ace1cc4f7a953de512853bdcommit hash: dd8dc2a59ddc46a12ace1cc4f7a953de512853bdcommit hash: dd8dc2a59ddc46a12ace1cc4f7a953de512853bd files touched by this commit		 Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des) search for other commits by this committer 
various: Bump go ports for go-1.25.11 / go-1.26.4
1.5.0.20260429,1
28 May 2026 05:01:37
commit hash: 3c0115147413140f2152575b5e277424960341cccommit hash: 3c0115147413140f2152575b5e277424960341cccommit hash: 3c0115147413140f2152575b5e277424960341cccommit hash: 3c0115147413140f2152575b5e277424960341cc files touched by this commit		 Jesús Daniel Colmenares Oviedo (dtxdf) search for other commits by this committer 
www/zen: Switch to development version

The project is still active, but no new versions have been released in
a while, and there are some useful changes, such as the removal of
focused notes, so I think we should use the development version.
1.5.0
27 May 2026 20:56:16
commit hash: 691c3cc94979648c7a5f3b6d7bc0b656beea04dacommit hash: 691c3cc94979648c7a5f3b6d7bc0b656beea04dacommit hash: 691c3cc94979648c7a5f3b6d7bc0b656beea04dacommit hash: 691c3cc94979648c7a5f3b6d7bc0b656beea04da files touched by this commit		 Jesús Daniel Colmenares Oviedo (dtxdf) search for other commits by this committer 
www/zen: New port: Lightweight self-hosted notes application

zen is a self-hosted notes application.

Features:

- Single Go binary.
- Low resource usage.
- Standard Markdown files, local SQLite database.
- Organize with flexible tags, not rigid folders.
- Markdown features like tables, code blocks, task lists, highlights, and more.
- Full-text search with BM25 ranking.
- Import and export data with full portability.
- Templates.
- Pinned notes.
- Archive and soft delete notes.
- Minimal dependency footprint.
- Automated backups.

WWW: https://www.sheshbabu.com/zen/

Number of commits found: 11

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