CMake 4.0: What You Need to Know

Kitware recently released CMake 4.0, finalizing a long transition process to a more modern CMake ecosystem. Users, packagers, and ecosystem managers will want to know how this impacts their workflows, and hear about major features they may have missed in previous release cycles. Topics include:

1. Affected policies and transition mechanisms for legacy packages to CMake 4.0
2. Building legacy packages without modifying affected CMakeLists
3. Improvements to C++ header file sets and C++20 module support
4. Broader packaging support with native pkg-config and CPS
5. Sneak peek of features on the horizon of CMake development