The vcpkg 2026.07.29 registry release and associated tool releases bring major SBOM improvements including canonical vcpkg PURLs, corrected dependency snapshot relationships, and SPDX gitoids for Git trees. The release adds 16 new ports, updates 302 ports, and removes 7 deprecated ones, bringing the total curated registry to 2,858 ports. Notable library upgrades include grpc 1.76.0 to 1.81.1, gstreamer 1.26.5 to 1.28.4, z3 4.16.0 to 5.0.0, and svt-av1 3.1.2 to 4.1.0. Other improvements include CURL_CA_BUNDLE support, a new vcpkg print-usage command, and fixes for Qt plugin deployment and POSIX extraction directory collisions. 93 community contributors participated in this release.
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How many ports are available in the vcpkg curated registry as of the July 2026 release?
The vcpkg curated registry contains 2,858 total ports as of the 2026.07.29 release. For specific triplets, x64-linux has 2,800 ports available, x64-windows has 2,779, and arm64-windows has 2,455. The registry added 16 new ports and removed 7 in this release cycle, with 302 ports updated overall. C++ developers tracking vcpkg registry growth and triplet coverage find release summaries like this on daily.dev.
What SBOM improvements were added to vcpkg-tool in the July 2026 releases?
vcpkg-tool gained canonical vcpkg PURLs, corrected dependency snapshot relationships and correlators, and SPDX gitoids for Git trees, improving the quality of generated supply-chain metadata. These changes were introduced across four pull requests in the 2026-07-13 through 2026-07-27 tool releases. Teams navigating software supply-chain compliance for C++ projects track vcpkg tooling changes on daily.dev.
Which major C++ libraries were upgraded in vcpkg's July 2026 registry release?
Notable upgrades in the 2026.07.29 vcpkg registry release include grpc 1.76.0 to 1.81.1, gstreamer 1.26.5 to 1.28.4, z3 4.16.0 to 5.0.0, svt-av1 3.1.2 to 4.1.0, libjpeg-turbo 3.1.4 to 3.2.0, libffi 3.6.0 to 3.7.1, sdl3 3.4.10 to 3.4.12, and mongo-cxx-driver 4.3.1 to 4.4.0. Developers upgrading vcpkg dependencies watch for breaking version jumps like these on daily.dev.