diff --git a/ports/freetds/CONTROL b/ports/freetds/CONTROL
deleted file mode 100644
index bfd1e44d47..0000000000
--- a/ports/freetds/CONTROL
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-Source: freetds
-Version: 1.1.17
-Homepage: https://www.freetds.org
-Description: Implementation of the Tabular Data Stream protocol
-Default-Features: openssl
-
-Feature: openssl
-Build-Depends: openssl
-Description: OpenSSL support
diff --git a/ports/freetds/crypt32.patch b/ports/freetds/crypt32.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index a3af75693b..0000000000
--- a/ports/freetds/crypt32.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
-index 796625e17..fc9076f54 100644
---- a/CMakeLists.txt	
-+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -149,6 +149,9 @@ if(OPENSSL_FOUND)
- 	config_write("#define HAVE_OPENSSL 1\n\n")
- 	include_directories(${OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR})
- 	set(CMAKE_REQUIRED_LIBRARIES ${OPENSSL_LIBRARIES})
-+    if(WIN32)
-+        list(APPEND CMAKE_REQUIRED_LIBRARIES crypt32 ws2_32)
-+    endif()
- 	check_function_exists_define(BIO_get_data)
- 	check_function_exists_define(RSA_get0_key)
- 	check_function_exists_define(ASN1_STRING_get0_data)
-@@ -441,7 +444,10 @@ else(WIN32)
- endif(WIN32)
- 
- if(OPENSSL_FOUND)
- 	set(lib_NETWORK ${lib_NETWORK} ${OPENSSL_LIBRARIES})
-+   if(WIN32)
-+       list(APPEND lib_NETWORK crypt32)
-+   endif()
- elseif(GNUTLS_FOUND)
- 	set(lib_NETWORK ${lib_NETWORK} ${lib_GNUTLS})
- endif(OPENSSL_FOUND)
diff --git a/ports/freetds/fix-encoding-h-dependency.patch b/ports/freetds/fix-encoding-h-dependency.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7b2909fec4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/freetds/fix-encoding-h-dependency.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+diff --git a/src/odbc/CMakeLists.txt b/src/odbc/CMakeLists.txt
+index 5d036a1..031b9a2 100644
+--- a/src/odbc/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/src/odbc/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ add_library(tdsodbc SHARED
+ target_compile_definitions(tdsodbc PUBLIC DLL_EXPORT=1)
+ # TODO libiconv, odbcinstlib and other dynamics
+ target_link_libraries(tdsodbc tds replacements tdsutils ${libs} ${lib_NETWORK} ${lib_BASE})
+-
++add_dependencies(tdsodbc generate_encodings_h)
+ if(MINGW OR CYGWIN)
+ 	set_target_properties(tdsodbc PROPERTIES LINK_FLAGS "--static -Wl,--kill-at -Wl,--enable-stdcall-fixup")
+ endif(MINGW OR CYGWIN)
+@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ add_library(tdsodbc_static STATIC
+ 	native.c sql2tds.c error.c odbc_checks.c sqlwchar.c sqlwparams.h
+ 	odbc_export.h error_export.h odbc_data.c ${win_SRCS}
+ )
++add_dependencies(tdsodbc_static generate_encodings_h)
+ if (NOT WIN32)
+ 	set_target_properties(tdsodbc_static PROPERTIES POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON)
+ endif()
+diff --git a/src/tds/CMakeLists.txt b/src/tds/CMakeLists.txt
+index d8be1a0..42b6a4d 100644
+--- a/src/tds/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/src/tds/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ if(PERL_FOUND AND NOT EXISTS "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/configure")
+ 		WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR})
+ endif(PERL_FOUND AND NOT EXISTS "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/configure")
+ 
++add_custom_target(generate_encodings_h DEPENDS "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/include/freetds/encodings.h")
++
+ if(WIN32)
+ 	set(add_SRCS sspi.c)
+ else(WIN32)
+@@ -44,9 +46,9 @@ add_library(tds STATIC
+         bulk.c packet.c stream.c random.c
+         sec_negotiate_gnutls.h sec_negotiate_openssl.h sec_negotiate.c gssapi.c
+ 	tds_willconvert.h num_limits.h tds_types.h
+-	"${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/include/freetds/encodings.h"
+ 	${add_SRCS}
+ )
++add_dependencies(tds generate_encodings_h)
+ if (NOT WIN32)
+ 	set_target_properties(tds PROPERTIES POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON)
+ endif()
diff --git a/ports/freetds/portfile.cmake b/ports/freetds/portfile.cmake
index eb833b30ae..b534c43f9c 100644
--- a/ports/freetds/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/freetds/portfile.cmake
@@ -1,28 +1,37 @@
-include(vcpkg_common_functions)
-
-vcpkg_download_distfile(ARCHIVE
-    URLS "https://www.freetds.org/files/stable/freetds-1.1.17.tar.bz2"
-    FILENAME "freetds-1.1.17.tar.bz2"
-    SHA512 3746ea009403960950fd619ffaf6433cfc92c34a8261b15e61009f01a1446e5a5a59413cd48e5511bbf3a0224f54b40daa713187bd20ca43105c5f8c68f4b88e
-)
-
-vcpkg_extract_source_archive_ex(
+vcpkg_from_github(
     OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
-    ARCHIVE ${ARCHIVE}
+    REPO freetds/freetds
+    REF fbf3bbbbc27283b35a5a6aec9992521e684c9abf # 1.2.5
+    HEAD_REF master
+    SHA512 e18dba16705db951ea52055476fac342c1bb62e90629ef82064ad9d3d4a7f2078e8f7674b1602bc21798240e005052dcbc67cdd0912b47163bd95956128c4677
     PATCHES
-        crypt32.patch
+        skip-unit-tests.patch
+        fix-encoding-h-dependency.patch
 )
 
-set(BUILD_freetds_openssl OFF)
-if("openssl" IN_LIST FEATURES)
-    set(BUILD_freetds_openssl ON)
+vcpkg_check_features(OUT_FEATURE_OPTIONS FEATURE_OPTIONS
+    FEATURES
+        openssl WITH_OPENSSL
+)
+
+vcpkg_find_acquire_program(PERL)
+get_filename_component(PERL_PATH ${PERL} DIRECTORY)
+vcpkg_add_to_path(${PERL_PATH})
+
+if (VCPKG_TARGET_IS_WINDOWS)
+    vcpkg_find_acquire_program(GPERF)
+    get_filename_component(GPERF_PATH ${GPERF} DIRECTORY)
+    vcpkg_add_to_path(${GPERF_PATH})
+else()
+    if (NOT EXISTS /usr/bin/gperf)
+        message(FATAL_ERROR "freetds requires gperf, these can be installed on Ubuntu systems via apt-get install gperf.")
+    endif()
 endif()
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
     PREFER_NINJA
-    OPTIONS
-        -DWITH_OPENSSL=${BUILD_freetds_openssl}
+    OPTIONS ${FEATURE_OPTIONS}
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
@@ -62,4 +71,4 @@ if(VCPKG_LIBRARY_LINKAGE STREQUAL static)
     file(REMOVE_RECURSE ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/bin ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/bin)
 endif()
 
-file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/COPYING DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/${PORT} RENAME copyright)
+file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/COPYING.txt DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/${PORT} RENAME copyright)
diff --git a/ports/freetds/skip-unit-tests.patch b/ports/freetds/skip-unit-tests.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0ec6d8ee43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/freetds/skip-unit-tests.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
+index e3840ae..19a22bb 100644
+--- a/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -64,9 +64,9 @@ math(EXPR BUILD_NUMBER "${BUILD_NUMBER}")
+ 
+ set(FREETDS_TOPDIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR})
+ 
+-enable_testing()
+-set(CMAKE_CTEST_COMMAND ctest)
+-add_custom_target(check COMMAND ${CMAKE_CTEST_COMMAND})
++#enable_testing()
++#set(CMAKE_CTEST_COMMAND ctest)
++#add_custom_target(check COMMAND ${CMAKE_CTEST_COMMAND})
+ 
+ # TODO depends on configure
+ add_definitions(-D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE)
+@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ add_subdirectory(src/dblib)
+ add_subdirectory(src/odbc)
+ add_subdirectory(src/apps)
+ add_subdirectory(src/server)
+-add_subdirectory(src/pool)
++#add_subdirectory(src/pool)
+ 
+ configure_file(${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/include/config.h.in ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/include/config.h)
+ configure_file(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/include/tds_sysdep_public.h.in ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/include/tds_sysdep_public.h)
+diff --git a/src/ctlib/CMakeLists.txt b/src/ctlib/CMakeLists.txt
+index e83b0b1..017d571 100644
+--- a/src/ctlib/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/src/ctlib/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-add_subdirectory(unittests)
++#add_subdirectory(unittests)
+ 
+ set(static_lib_name ct)
+ if(WIN32)
+diff --git a/src/dblib/CMakeLists.txt b/src/dblib/CMakeLists.txt
+index aa8a179..b626000 100644
+--- a/src/dblib/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/src/dblib/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-add_subdirectory(unittests)
++#add_subdirectory(unittests)
+ 
+ if(WIN32)
+ 	set(win_SRCS winmain.c dblib.def dbopen.c)
+diff --git a/src/odbc/CMakeLists.txt b/src/odbc/CMakeLists.txt
+index 7fad8db..3d90456 100644
+--- a/src/odbc/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/src/odbc/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-add_subdirectory(unittests)
++#add_subdirectory(unittests)
+ 
+ # TODO checks
+ add_definitions(-DUNIXODBC -DHAVE_SQLGETPRIVATEPROFILESTRING)
+diff --git a/src/replacements/CMakeLists.txt b/src/replacements/CMakeLists.txt
+index 37b47e3..ba17bed 100644
+--- a/src/replacements/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/src/replacements/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ if (NOT WIN32)
+ 	set_target_properties(replacements PROPERTIES POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON)
+ endif()
+ 
+-add_subdirectory(unittests)
++#add_subdirectory(unittests)
+ 
+ 
+ INSTALL(TARGETS replacements
+diff --git a/src/tds/CMakeLists.txt b/src/tds/CMakeLists.txt
+index fee56b3..e7a71f0 100644
+--- a/src/tds/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/src/tds/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-add_subdirectory(unittests)
++#add_subdirectory(unittests)
+ 
+ if(PERL_FOUND AND NOT EXISTS "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/configure")
+ 	# get name of null device
+diff --git a/src/utils/CMakeLists.txt b/src/utils/CMakeLists.txt
+index 2a1935c..a46483e 100644
+--- a/src/utils/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/src/utils/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-add_subdirectory(unittests)
++#add_subdirectory(unittests)
+ 
+ if(WIN32)
+ 	set(add_SRCS md5.c)
diff --git a/ports/freetds/vcpkg.json b/ports/freetds/vcpkg.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0c01013ad6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/freetds/vcpkg.json
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+{
+  "name": "freetds",
+  "version-string": "1.2.5",
+  "description": "Implementation of the Tabular Data Stream protocol",
+  "homepage": "https://www.freetds.org",
+  "supports": "windows & !uwp",
+  "default-features": [
+    "openssl"
+  ],
+  "features": {
+    "openssl": {
+      "description": "OpenSSL support",
+      "dependencies": [
+        "openssl"
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/scripts/ci.baseline.txt b/scripts/ci.baseline.txt
index 942288e26b..80950fa9d6 100644
--- a/scripts/ci.baseline.txt
+++ b/scripts/ci.baseline.txt
@@ -423,10 +423,6 @@ freeglut:x64-uwp=fail
 freeglut:x64-osx=fail
 # Needs /bigobj
 freeopcua:arm64-windows=fail
-freetds:arm-uwp=fail
-freetds:x64-linux=fail
-freetds:x64-osx=fail
-freetds:x64-uwp=fail
 freetype-gl:x64-uwp=fail
 freexl:arm-uwp=fail
 freexl:x64-uwp=fail
@@ -1835,9 +1831,3 @@ clapack:x86-windows=skip
 clapack:x64-uwp=skip
 lapack-reference:arm64-windows=skip
 lapack-reference:arm-uwp=skip
-
-# freetds upstream is gone
-freetds:x86-windows=fail
-freetds:x64-windows=fail
-freetds:x64-windows-static=fail
-freetds:arm64-windows=fail