diff --git a/net/liferea/Makefile b/net/liferea/Makefile
index e356ee69ef1a..d5fff8f280c6 100644
--- a/net/liferea/Makefile
+++ b/net/liferea/Makefile
@@ -1,48 +1,49 @@
 PORTNAME=	liferea
 DISTVERSION=	1.16.11
+PORTREVSION=	1
 CATEGORIES=	net gnome
 MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/lwindolf/liferea/releases/download/v${DISTVERSION}/
 
 MAINTAINER=	cmt@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Simple RSS/RDF feed reader
 WWW=		https://lzone.de/liferea/
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2 LGPL3
 LICENSE_COMB=	multi
 LICENSE_FILE_GPLv2=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 LICENSE_FILE_LGPL3=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING.LIB
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	gsettings-desktop-schemas>=0:devel/gsettings-desktop-schemas
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libfribidi.so:converters/fribidi \
 		libharfbuzz.so:print/harfbuzz \
 		libsoup-3.0.so:devel/libsoup3 \
 		libwebkit2gtk-4.1.so:www/webkit2-gtk@41 \
 		libpeas-2.so:devel/libpeas \
 		libjson-glib-1.0.so:devel/json-glib
 RUN_DEPENDS=	gsettings-desktop-schemas>=0:devel/gsettings-desktop-schemas \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}libpeas>=0:devel/py-libpeas@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		compiler:c++11-lang cpe desktop-file-utils gettext \
 		gmake gnome libtool localbase \
 		pathfix pkgconfig python sqlite tar:bzip2
 USE_GNOME=	cairo dconf:run gtk30 gdkpixbuf intltool introspection \
 		libxslt libxml2
 
 GLIB_SCHEMAS=	net.sf.liferea.gschema.xml
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--enable-introspection
 
 # Introspection starts the program, but it may hang or crash-abort
 # without an X server because the Webkit compositor tries to initialize
 # a graphics backend
 MAKE_ENV+=	WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1
 
 INSTALL_TARGET=	install-strip
 
 # stop-gap hack to accomodate glib < 2.86 and pygobject > 3.52
 post-install:
 	${MKDIR} -p "${STAGEDIR}/${LOCALBASE}/lib/girepository-1.0/"
 	${LN} -sf "../${PORTNAME}/girepository-1.0/Liferea-3.0.typelib" "${STAGEDIR}/${LOCALBASE}/lib/girepository-1.0/Liferea-3.0.typelib"
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/net/liferea/files/patch-configure b/net/liferea/files/patch-configure
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..47b80b787393
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/liferea/files/patch-configure
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From 930e2e0892a31cef5f7b373a6a4d3f9b9a3d7e1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Fabian Keil <fk@fabiankeil.de>
+Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:35:30 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] configure: Downgrade required glib-2.0 version to 2.68.0
+
+... to make sure Liferea can be built from the FreeBSD ports branch 2026Q2.
+---
+ configure | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git configure configure
+index d1bc6db..cc90fc0 100755
+--- configure
++++ configure
+@@ -16376,7 +16376,7 @@ fi
+ # Mandatory library dependencies
+ 
+ pkg_modules="	gtk+-3.0 >= 3.24.0
+-		glib-2.0 >= 2.86.0
++		glib-2.0 >= 2.68.0
+ 		gio-2.0 >= 2.50.0
+ 		pango >= 1.4.0
+ 		libxml-2.0 >= 2.6.27
+-- 
+2.53.0
+