CMake 4.0.5 available for download
November 19, 2025
We are pleased to announce that CMake 4.0.5 is now available for download.
Please use the latest release from our download page:
https://cmake.org/download/
See also the release notes and release milestone
Thanks for your support!
Changes made since CMake 4.0.4: Ben Boeckel (2): Help/OPTIMIZE_DEPENDENCIES: move period outside of parenthetical Help/OPTIMIZE_DEPENDENCIES: xref with CMP0154 documentation Brad King (26): Tests: Teach RunCMake to ignore Xcode an IDERunDestination warning ci: update macOS jobs to use Xcode 26.0 bootstrap: Fix compilation with gcc 16 devirtualization Tests: Match RunCMake.find_package-CPS version candidates more precisely find_package: Avoid repeating search for lower-case .cps file Tests: Teach RunCMake to ignore Xcode an IDERunDestination warning macOS: Remove outdated condition for CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET macOS: Avoid relying on sw_vers when cross-compiling from another OS Tests/FindBoost/TestPython: Improve python version list formatting ci: Add script to repackage macOS SDKs ci: Add script to install macOS SDK version 15.5 ci: Revert packaging to macOS 15.5 SDK to restore cmake-gui rendering Apple: Initialize deployment target after SDK Xcode: Restore default CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET to run on host Help: Add 4.0 release note for restored Xcode default deployment target Help: Fix typo in 3.31.9 release note heading execute_process: Restore support for short timeouts CPack/RPM: Backport "Remove redundant conditions for presence of rpmbuild" CPack/RPM: Backport "Fix detection of RPM support for weak dependencies" CPack: Backport "correctly perform querytags on old versions of RPM" Tests: Update expected Zstandard magic number for libarchive 3.8.2 execute_process: Restore termination of processes on timeout ci: update macOS jobs to use Xcode 26.1 Help: Improve string(JSON) synopsis document source readability Help: Avoid reST named references in string(JSON) synopsis CMake 4.0.5 Karolina Surma (1): FindPython: Add support for Python 3.15 Robert Maynard (1): find_package: Fix regression on `<PackageName>_ROOT` relative to CWD