{"id":35041,"date":"2025-01-23T18:44:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T18:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/?p=35041"},"modified":"2025-01-23T18:44:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T18:44:37","slug":"whats-new-in-vcpkg-january-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/whats-new-in-vcpkg-january-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s New in vcpkg (January 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog post summarizes changes to the <a href=\"https:\/\/vcpkg.io\/\">vcpkg package manager<\/a> as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/vcpkg\/releases\/tag\/2025.01.13\">2025.01.13<\/a> registry release, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/vcpkg-tool\/releases\/tag\/2025-01-11\">2025-01-11<\/a> tool release, as well as changes to <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/vcpkg\/\">vcpkg documentation<\/a> throughout January. This release includes minor improvements and bug fixes.<\/p>\n<p>Some stats for this period:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are now <strong>2,524 total ports <\/strong>available in the vcpkg curated registry. A <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/vcpkg\/concepts\/ports\">port is a versioned recipe<\/a> for building a package from source, such as a C or C++ library.<\/li>\n<li><strong>12 new ports<\/strong> were added to the curated registry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>177 updates<\/strong> were made to existing ports. 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 13 main <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/vcpkg\/concepts\/triplets\">triplets<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>63 <\/strong>community contributors made commits.<\/li>\n<li>The main vcpkg repo has over <strong>6,600 forks<\/strong> and <strong>23,800 stars<\/strong> on GitHub.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>vcpkg changelog (2025.01.13 release)<\/h1>\n<p>The following notable changes were made in January:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moved <em>vcpkgTools.xml<\/em> data into a JSON file, removed the XML parsing code, added <em>architecture<\/em> field to tool metadata, and removed the requirement of force system binaries on arm64 Linux platforms (PR: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/vcpkg-tool\/pull\/1553\">Microsoft\/vcpkg-tool#1553<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Added some checks to prevent vcpkg from sometimes using an incompatible version of CMake, resulting in an error for the user (PR: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/vcpkg-tool\/pull\/1562\">Microsoft\/vcpkg-tool#1562<\/a>, thanks @autoantwort!).<\/li>\n<li>Other minor bug fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Documentation changes<\/h1>\n<p>There are no changes to vcpkg documentation this month.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any suggestions for our documentation, please <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/vcpkg-docs\/issues\">submit an issue in our GitHub repo<\/a> or see the box at the bottom of a particular article.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35042\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/word-image-35041-1.png\" width=\"781\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Total ports available for tested triplets<\/h1>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>triplet<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>ports available<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>x64-windows<\/td>\n<td>2,422<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>x86-windows<\/td>\n<td>2,315<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>x64-windows-static<\/td>\n<td>2,294<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>x64-windows-static-md<\/td>\n<td>2,344<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>arm64-windows<\/td>\n<td>2,029<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>arm64-windows-static-md<\/td>\n<td>2,010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>x64-uwp<\/td>\n<td>1,346<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>arm64-uwp<\/td>\n<td>1,312<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>x64-linux<\/td>\n<td>2,399<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>x64-osx<\/td>\n<td>2,273<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>arm64-osx<\/td>\n<td>2,191<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>arm-neon-android<\/td>\n<td>1,690<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>x64-android<\/td>\n<td>1,764<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>arm64-android<\/td>\n<td>1,732<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>While vcpkg supports a much larger variety of target platforms and architectures (as <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/vcpkg\/tree\/master\/triplets\/community\">community triplets<\/a>), the list above is validated exhaustively to ensure updated ports don\u2019t break other ports in the catalog.<\/p>\n<h1>Thank you to our contributors<\/h1>\n<p>vcpkg couldn\u2019t be where it is today without contributions from our open-source community. Thank you for your continued support! The following people contributed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/vcpkg\">vcpkg<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/vcpkg-tool\">vcpkg-tool<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/vcpkg-docs\">vcpkg-docs<\/a> repos in this release (listed alphabetically by GitHub username):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AenBleidd<\/li>\n<li>alagoutte<\/li>\n<li>an-tao<\/li>\n<li>autoantwort<\/li>\n<li>boris-bc<\/li>\n<li>bshoshany<\/li>\n<li>buck-yeh<\/li>\n<li>c8ef<\/li>\n<li>cffk<\/li>\n<li>chiphogg<\/li>\n<li>danielaparker<\/li>\n<li>davidepianca98<\/li>\n<li>deniskovalchuk<\/li>\n<li>DeveloperPaul123<\/li>\n<li>dg0yt<\/li>\n<li>donny-dont<\/li>\n<li>drdanz<\/li>\n<li>eyalroz<\/li>\n<li>flarive<\/li>\n<li>GabeRundlett<\/li>\n<li>gastineau<\/li>\n<li>gfeyer<\/li>\n<li>hosseinmoein<\/li>\n<li>ilya-lavrenov<\/li>\n<li>JackBoosY<\/li>\n<li>JacobBarthelmeh<\/li>\n<li>jcelerier<\/li>\n<li>jeremy-rifkin<\/li>\n<li>JoergAtGithub<\/li>\n<li>jreichel-nvidia<\/li>\n<li>lesomnus<\/li>\n<li>liuzicheng1987<\/li>\n<li>luadebug<\/li>\n<li>luncliff<\/li>\n<li>m-kuhn<\/li>\n<li>marcodiiga<\/li>\n<li>MehdiChinoune<\/li>\n<li>michael-doubez<\/li>\n<li>miyanyan<\/li>\n<li>msclock<\/li>\n<li>myd7349<\/li>\n<li>Neumann-A<\/li>\n<li>nickdademo<\/li>\n<li>nlogozzo<\/li>\n<li>oleg-derevenetz<\/li>\n<li>PavelKisliak<\/li>\n<li>rioki<\/li>\n<li>RobbertProost<\/li>\n<li>RT2Code<\/li>\n<li>rtzoeller<\/li>\n<li>rustyconover<\/li>\n<li>salman-javed-nz<\/li>\n<li>scotthart<\/li>\n<li>SunBlack<\/li>\n<li>talregev<\/li>\n<li>tartanpaint<\/li>\n<li>Tradias<\/li>\n<li>walbourn<\/li>\n<li>weypro<\/li>\n<li>wikiwang1991<\/li>\n<li>xb284524239<\/li>\n<li>xiaozhuai<\/li>\n<li>yurybura<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Learn more<\/h1>\n<p>You can find the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/vcpkg\/releases\">main release notes<\/a> on GitHub. Recent updates to the vcpkg tool can be viewed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/vcpkg-tool\/releases\">vcpkg-tool Releases page<\/a>. To contribute to vcpkg documentation, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/vcpkg-docs\">vcpkg-docs repo<\/a>. If you\u2019re new to vcpkg or curious about how a package manager can make your life easier as a C\/C++ developer, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/vcpkg.io\">vcpkg website \u2013 vcpkg.io<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to contribute to vcpkg and its library catalog, or want to give us feedback on anything, check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/vcpkg\">GitHub repo<\/a>. Please report bugs or request updates to ports in our <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/vcpkg\/issues\">issue tracker<\/a> or join more general discussion in our <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/vcpkg\/discussions\">discussion forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2025.01.13 registry release, 2025-01-11 tool release, as well as changes to vcpkg documentation throughout January. This release includes minor improvements and bug fixes. Some stats for this period: There are now 2,524 total ports available in the vcpkg curated registry. 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