diff --git a/devel/tig/Makefile b/devel/tig/Makefile
index 7c9c9bded2bb..c11187565810 100644
--- a/devel/tig/Makefile
+++ b/devel/tig/Makefile
@@ -1,47 +1,46 @@
 PORTNAME=	tig
-DISTVERSION=	2.5.12
+DISTVERSION=	2.6.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases/download/${DISTNAME}/
 
 MAINTAINER=	0mp@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Text-mode interface for git
 WWW=		https://jonas.github.io/tig/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 TEST_DEPENDS=	git:devel/git
 
 USES=		gmake iconv ncurses pkgconfig readline
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
-CONFIGURE_ARGS=	${ICONV_CONFIGURE_BASE}
 MAKE_ARGS=	V=1
 
 INSTALL_TARGET=	install install-doc-man
 
 # Tests fail when running as part of a non-interactive Poudriere
 # build, but using script(1) seems to be a good enough workaround and
 # allows them to run successfully anyway.
 TEST_TARGET=	test-address-sanitizer
 DO_MAKE_TEST=	script -q /dev/null ${SETENV} ${TEST_ENV} ${GMAKE}
 
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/tig \
 		'@sample etc/tigrc.sample' \
 		share/man/man1/tig.1.gz \
 		share/man/man5/tigrc.5.gz \
 		share/man/man7/tigmanual.7.gz
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	GIT PCRE
 
 GIT_DESC=	Install devel/git as runtime dependency
 
 GIT_RUN_DEPENDS=	git:devel/git
-GIT_VARS_OFF=		PKGMESSAGE="${.CURDIR}/pkg-message-git"
+GIT_VARS_OFF=		PKGMESSAGE="${.CURDIR}/pkg-message ${.CURDIR}/pkg-message-git"
 PCRE_LIB_DEPENDS=	libpcre2-posix.so:devel/pcre2
 PCRE_CONFIGURE_WITH=	pcre
 
 post-install:
 	${MV} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/etc/tigrc ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/etc/tigrc.sample
 	${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/bin/tig
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/tig/distinfo b/devel/tig/distinfo
index 5ee03efd5274..ba6a9960987c 100644
--- a/devel/tig/distinfo
+++ b/devel/tig/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1748630550
-SHA256 (tig-2.5.12.tar.gz) = 5dda8a098810bb499096e17fc9f69c0a5915a23f46be27209fc8195d7a792108
-SIZE (tig-2.5.12.tar.gz) = 1190652
+TIMESTAMP = 1760263709
+SHA256 (tig-2.6.0.tar.gz) = 99d4a0fdd3d93547ebacfe511195cb92e4f75b91644c06293c067f401addeb3e
+SIZE (tig-2.6.0.tar.gz) = 1196658
diff --git a/devel/tig/pkg-message b/devel/tig/pkg-message
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b0d0a8b9bf9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/tig/pkg-message
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+[
+{ type: install
+  message: <<EOM
+In version 2.6.0, users should update the settings for the blame,
+main, reflog, and refs views in their ~/.tigrc file to include the
+committer column.
+EOM
+}
+]
diff --git a/devel/tig/pkg-message-git b/devel/tig/pkg-message-git
index 9cf7166699dd..7d4e7ce5fbee 100644
--- a/devel/tig/pkg-message-git
+++ b/devel/tig/pkg-message-git
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 [
 { type: install
   message: <<EOM
+
 Required to (post-)install devel/git* port as runtime dependency.
 EOM
 }
 ]