diff --git a/ports/thrift/CONTROL b/ports/thrift/CONTROL
index 00899f1ef..aef580f73 100644
--- a/ports/thrift/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/thrift/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: thrift
-Version: latest
+Version: 20172805-72ca60debae1d9fb35d9f0085118873669006d7f
 Build-Depends: boost, zlib, libevent, openssl
 Description: Apache Thrift is a software project spanning a variety of programming languages and use cases. Our goal is to make reliable, performant communication and data serialization across languages as efficient and seamless as possible. Originally developed at Facebook, Thrift was open sourced in April 2007 and entered the Apache Incubator in May, 2008. Thrift became an Apache TLP in October, 2010.
diff --git a/ports/thrift/portfile.cmake b/ports/thrift/portfile.cmake
index d59f84374..94e8201bf 100644
--- a/ports/thrift/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/thrift/portfile.cmake
@@ -3,30 +3,37 @@ include(vcpkg_common_functions)
 if (VCPKG_LIBRARY_LINKAGE STREQUAL dynamic)
     message(STATUS "Warning: Dynamic building not supported. Building static.") # See note below
     set(VCPKG_LIBRARY_LINKAGE static)
+
+    # As per Ben Craig thrift comment see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-1834
+    # Currently, Thrift is designed to be packaged as a static library. As a static library, the consuming program / dll will only pull in the object files that it needs, so the per-binary size increase should be pretty small.
+    # Thrift isn't a very good candidate to become a dynamic library. No attempts are made to preserve binary compatibility, or to provide a C / COM-like interface to make binary compatibility easy.
 endif()
 
-#Note: last stable fails to build. So use --head instead 
-
-if(NOT VCPKG_USE_HEAD_VERSION)
-    message(FATAL_ERROR "Package does not specify REF. It must built using --head.")
- endif()
-
-# As per Ben Craig thrift comment see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-1834
-# Currently, Thrift is designed to be packaged as a static library. As a static library, the consuming program / dll will only pull in the object files that it needs, so the per-binary size increase should be pretty small.
-# Thrift isn't a very good candidate to become a dynamic library. No attempts are made to preserve binary compatibility, or to provide a C / COM-like interface to make binary compatibility easy.
-
 vcpkg_find_acquire_program(FLEX)
 vcpkg_find_acquire_program(BISON)
 
 vcpkg_from_github(
     OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
     REPO apache/thrift
+    REF 72ca60debae1d9fb35d9f0085118873669006d7f
+    SHA512 6050c66b176ad596d9632b224b8fb49aa3b823c977dacad729dbcdefb0da60eb983d3a32d9326b4317bae6755fb1fc4cee2cc6c282b3e1636a4528844c0f5915
     HEAD_REF master
 )
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
-    OPTIONS   -DWITH_SHARED_LIB=OFF -DWITH_STATIC_LIB=ON  -DBUILD_TESTING=off -DBUILD_JAVA=off -DBUILD_C_GLIB=off -DBUILD_PYTHON=off -DBUILD_CPP=on -DBUILD_HASKELL=off -DBUILD_TUTORIALS=off -DFLEX_EXECUTABLE=${FLEX} -DBISON_EXECUTABLE=${BISON}
+    OPTIONS
+        -DWITH_SHARED_LIB=OFF
+        -DWITH_STATIC_LIB=ON
+        -DBUILD_TESTING=off
+        -DBUILD_JAVA=off
+        -DBUILD_C_GLIB=off
+        -DBUILD_PYTHON=off
+        -DBUILD_CPP=on
+        -DBUILD_HASKELL=off
+        -DBUILD_TUTORIALS=off
+        -DFLEX_EXECUTABLE=${FLEX}
+        -DBISON_EXECUTABLE=${BISON}
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
@@ -34,9 +41,10 @@ vcpkg_install_cmake()
 file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/LICENSE DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/thrift RENAME copyright)
 
 file(GLOB EXES "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/bin/*.exe")
-
 if(EXES)
-    file(COPY ${EXES} DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/tools)
+    file(COPY ${EXES} DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/tools/thrift)
+    file(REMOVE ${EXES})
+    vcpkg_copy_tool_dependencies(${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/tools/thrift)
 endif()
 
 file(REMOVE_RECURSE ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/include)