[MS] What’s New in vcpkg (August 2025) - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2025.08.27 registry release as well as changes to vcpkg documentation throughout August. There were no tool changes as of the date of the registry release in August, though more changes will be listed in the next release in September. Some stats for this period:
  • There are now 2,666 total ports available in the vcpkg curated registry. A port is a versioned recipe for building a package from source, such as a C or C++ library.
  • 14 new ports were added to the curated registry.
  • 240 ports were updated. As always, we validate each change to a port by building all other ports that depend on or are depended by the library that is being updated for our 15 main triplets.
  • 86 community contributors made commits.
  • The main vcpkg repo has over 7,000 forks and 25,500 stars on GitHub.

GitHub Dependabot support for vcpkg

Earlier this month, we announced GitHub Dependabot support for vcpkg. This allows GitHub users to receive automated PRs to upgrade their vcpkg versioning baselines. Since that announcement, the automated PRs have been updated to include information about the vcpkg release being upgraded to, including port counts per triplet, as well as a list of impacted ports and their original vs. new versions. Here is an example of one of the new PRs.

vcpkg changelog (2025.08.27 release)

No tool updates as of 2025.08.27. More tool updates will be included in next month’s release.

Documentation changes

If you have any suggestions for our documentation, please submit an issue in our GitHub repo or see the box at the bottom of a particular article. Submit documentation feedback at the bottom of an article

Total ports available for tested triplets

triplet ports available
x86-windows 2453
x64-windows 2575
x64-windows-release 2575
x64-windows-static 2450
x64-windows-static-md 2507
x64-uwp 1452
arm64-windows 2181
arm64-windows-static-md 2163
arm64-uwp 1421
x64-osx 2446
arm64-osx 2376
x64-linux 2568
arm-neon-android 1998
x64-android 2059
arm64-android 2021
While vcpkg supports a much larger variety of target platforms and architectures (as community triplets), the list above is validated exhaustively to ensure updated ports don’t break other ports in the catalog.

Thank you to our contributors

vcpkg couldn’t be where it is today without contributions from our open-source community. Thank you for your continued support! The following people contributed to the vcpkg, vcpkg-tool, or vcpkg-docs repos in this release (listed by commit author or GitHub username):
A13501350 Egor Tyuvaev KRM7 Saikari
acidx27x Ethan J. Musser Lars Fröhlich Silvio Traversaro
Adrian Bibby Walther EvilMcStevil Matt Stephen G Tuggy
albertony Fabien Péan Matthias Kuhn Stephen Webb
Alexander Neumann hambaga Maxime Gervais Steve Brain
Alexander Vieth HanByul Yang Michał Petryka SunBlack
Alexandre Petitjean Hartmut Kaiser Mikael Lindemann Takatoshi Kondo
Alexis La Goutte Hlongyu miyanyan talregev
Andrew Kaster Hossein Moein myd7349 Theodore Tsirpanis
Andrew Tribick JacobBarthelmeh Mys Vac Thomas1664
ayeteadoe James Robertson Mzying2001 Tim Flynn
Benjamin Gilbert Jean Felder Nick D'Ademo toge
Benoît Hauquier Jeremy Rifkin Nick Logozzo Tolker-KU
Branden Bonaby JoergAtGithub pastdue Vitalii Koshura
Bryce Mecum John Wason Pierre Waldemar Kornewald
Charles Karney Johnny Willemsen Pierre Wendling Weihang Ding
Chuck Walbourn Jonathan Hyry PolarGoose xavier2k6
CQ_Undefine Jonathan Sweemer ptahmose Yury Bura
Crindzebra Sjimo jreichel-nvidia Rafael Kitover Zackery
cuihairu Kai Blaschke Raul Metsma Zhang
Dimitar Krastev Kai Jia RippeR37
Dr. Patrick Urbanke Kai Pastor Saad

Learn more

You can find the main release notes on GitHub. Recent updates to the vcpkg tool can be viewed on the vcpkg-tool Releases page. To contribute to vcpkg documentation, visit the vcpkg-docs repo. If you’re new to vcpkg or curious about how a package manager can make your life easier as a C/C++ developer, check out the vcpkg website – vcpkg.io. If you would like to contribute to vcpkg and its library catalog, or want to give us feedback on anything, check out our GitHub repo. Please report bugs or request updates to ports in our issue tracker or join more general discussion in our discussion forum.
Post Updated on September 05, 2025 at 04:24AM
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