What’s New in vcpkg (June 2026)

This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2026.06.01 and 2026.06.24 registry releases and the 2026-05-27 tool release. These updates add a vcpkg-tool switch to skip installation when packages are already cached, OpenHarmony (OHOS) platform support, and major library updates including curl 8.21, CGAL 6.2, and Graphviz 15, along with other minor improvements and bug fixes.

• There are now 2,849 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.
• 28 new ports were added to the curated registry.
• 142 ports were updated in the 2026.06.01 release and 283 ports were updated in the 2026.06.24 release. 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 main triplets.
• 82 community contributors made commits.
• The main vcpkg repo has over 7,600 forks and 27,200 stars on GitHub.

vcpkg changelog (2026.06.01, 2026.06.24 releases)

The following notable user-facing changes shipped in the 2026-05-27 tool release:

• Added a switch to install that skips installation when the requested packages already exist in the binary cache, speeding up common workflows (PR: Microsoft/vcpkg-tool#1981, thanks @autoantwort!).
• Added OHOS (OpenHarmony / HarmonyOS) platform support (PR: Microsoft/vcpkg-tool#2004, thanks @jobor!).
• vcpkg now accepts libcurl.so as a provider of curl (PR: Microsoft/vcpkg-tool#1984, thanks @podsvirov!).
• HTTPS_PROXY and NO_PROXY are now ignored when the environment variable is set to an empty value, matching common tooling behavior (PR: Microsoft/vcpkg-tool#1988, thanks @TobiasFunk!).
• Added a NuGet warning when using a binary cache to help diagnose misconfigurations (PR: Microsoft/vcpkg-tool#2000, thanks @TobiasFunk!).
• x-download now produces more output and errors when no asset cache is configured for --store (PR: Microsoft/vcpkg-tool#2014, thanks @autoantwort!).
• x-add-version now regenerates the baseline on --all (PR: Microsoft/vcpkg-tool#2003).
• Removed Visual Studio 2015 integration from integrate install(PR: Microsoft/vcpkg-tool#2011).
• Fixed handling of empty versus unset environment variables on Windows (PR: Microsoft/vcpkg-tool#1997).

Notable port updates across these releases:

• curl updated to 8.21.0, up from 8.20.0, continuing to provide the latest networking improvements and security fixes.
• CGAL updated to 6.2, up from 6.1.1, a new release of the Computational Geometry Algorithms Library.
• Graphviz updated to 15.0.0, up from 14.1.2, a major version bump for the graph visualization toolkit.
• FTXUI updated to 7.0.0, up from 6.1.9, a major release of the C++ terminal UI library.
• msgpack-c updated to 7.0.0, up from 6.1.0, a major version bump for the MessagePack implementation.
• blosc2 updated to 3.1.2, up from 2.23.1, a major version jump for the high-performance compressor.
• MuJoCo updated to 3.9.0, up from 3.8.1, for physics simulation users.
• fbgemm updated to 1.5.0, up from 1.0.0, for low-precision GEMM workloads.
• libheif updated to 1.23.0, up from 1.21.2, bringing the latest HEIF/AVIF decoding improvements.
• cuDNN frontend updated to 1.24.0, up from 1.15.0.
• fmt updated to 12.2.0, up from 12.1.0.
• Qt updated to 6.11.1, a patch release across the Qt framework.
• libfido2 updated to 1.17.0, up from 1.16.0, for FIDO2/WebAuthn workflows.
• Other minor improvements and bug fixes.

Documentation updates

• Documented the new install switch to skip installation when packages already exist in the binary cache.
• Removed Visual Studio 2015 references from the integrate command documentation.
• Updated the supported hosts documentation.

Total ports available for tested triplets

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):

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.