CMake 4.2.2 available for download

January 22, 2026

We are pleased to announce that CMake 4.2.2 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 4.2.1:

Ben Boeckel (4):
  cmProcess: explicitly track the StopTimeout
  gitlab-ci: get the sccache server port from the runner
  cmProcess: compute the timeout when needed
  Tests/CTestTimeoutAfterMatch: add case for stop time bug

Brad King (17):
  ci: Restore support for Windows 7 in official precompiled binaries
  gitattributes: Do not export ast-grep infrastructure in source archives
  StdIo: Restore compilation on 32-bit MinGW
  Utilities: Select bundled or external dependencies very early
  Linux: Do not force 64-bit `time_t` on 32-bit archs with system libarchive
  Help: Add 4.1 release note about VS link flag suppression
  VS: Restore subsystem link flag for DLLs
  cmake: Fix SARIF diagnostics output path encoding on Windows
  ci: update macOS jobs to use Xcode 26.2
  VS: Restore unicode character set for custom targrets on WindowsStore
  ci: Fix CUDA tests on GPUs newer than the toolkit supports
  ci: Clamp CUDA 'native' architecture in NVHPC job
  Tests: Fix RunCMake.include_external_msproject .sln check failure
  VS: Add include_external_msproject detection of `.njsproj` type
  VS: Add include_external_msproject GUIDs for more project types
  VS: Fix SLNX generation so .NET Core projects build in the IDE
  CMake 4.2.2

Clinton Stimpson (1):
  file(GET_RUNTIME_DEPENDENCIES): Support VS 2026 without VS 2022

Craig Scott (4):
  Help: Fix minor grammar problems
  Help: Restore correct sort order for property and variable manuals
  Help: Correct and expand AppImage CPack generator docs
  fileapi: Handle unused imported libraries with missing IMPORTED_IMPLIB

Eduard Voronkin (2):
  FASTBuild: set PlatformToolset in the generated .bff file
  FASTBuild: fix configure for non-English MSVC

Marc Chevrier (1):
  CMake: Restore support for compiling as C++11 on Windows

Martin Duffy (2):
  fileapi: Fix crash on cmake_file_api() call in initial cache
  instrumentation: Fix crash on cmake_instrumentation() call in initial cache

Mathieu (1):
  CPack/AppImage: Add support for a custom AppRun file

Matthew Woehlke (1):
  GenEx: Partially restore pre-CMP0199 behavior of $<CONFIG>

Tyler Yankee (2):
  Tutorial: Fix path to file in exercise solution
  Tutorial: Provide MSVC example to build Vendor library

Vito Gamberini (1):
  FindBLAS: Make find_package(nvpl) quiet

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