--- title: What’s New in vcpkg (Jul 2026) | daily.dev description: The vcpkg 2026.07.29 registry release and associated tool releases bring major SBOM improvements including canonical vcpkg PURLs, corrected dependency snapshot... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-vcpkg-jul-2026--jyfjddrid twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What’s New in vcpkg (Jul 2026) | daily.dev og:description: The vcpkg 2026.07.29 registry release and associated tool releases bring major SBOM improvements including canonical vcpkg PURLs, corrected dependency snapshot... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-vcpkg-jul-2026--jyfjddrid og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jyfjDDRid.png og:image:alt: What’s New in vcpkg (Jul 2026) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What’s New in vcpkg (Jul 2026) **[DevBlogs](https://daily.dev/sources/devblogs)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### 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._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [What’s New in vcpkg \(May 2026\)](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-vcpkg-may-2026--fn9qknz4u) · DevBlogs · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [What’s New in vcpkg \(June 2026\)](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-vcpkg-june-2026--qx9ebvusp) · DevBlogs · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [What’s New in vcpkg \(Apr 2026\)](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-vcpkg-apr-2026--uzynm8mdh) · DevBlogs · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [What’s New in vcpkg \(October 2025\)](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-vcpkg-october-2025--exu9hzlxh) · DevBlogs · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [This Week in Package Management: 27 June 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/this-week-in-package-management-27-june-2026-zliygjn91) · Andrew Nesbitt · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#c](https://daily.dev/tags/c), [#c++](https://daily.dev/tags/c++), [#sbom](https://daily.dev/tags/sbom) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-vcpkg-jul-2026--jyfjddrid) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What’s New in vcpkg (Jul 2026)","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-vcpkg-jul-2026--jyfjddrid","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-vcpkg-jul-2026--jyfjddrid"},"datePublished":"2026-08-11T22:46:17.748Z","dateModified":"2026-08-11T22:46:51.168Z","description":"The vcpkg 2026.07.29 registry release and associated tool releases bring major SBOM improvements including canonical vcpkg PURLs, corrected dependency snapshot...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--ZrL_HSsR--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2006","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--ZrL_HSsR--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2006","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"DevBlogs","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"DevBlogs","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/8f68b453325f482ebeb73fb780092713","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/devblogs"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-vcpkg-jul-2026--jyfjddrid","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"c,c++,sbom","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"DevBlogs","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/devblogs"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"What’s New in vcpkg (Jul 2026)"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-vcpkg-jul-2026--jyfjddrid#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"How many ports are available in the vcpkg curated registry as of the July 2026 release?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"The vcpkg curated registry contains 2,858 total ports as of the 2026.07.29 release. 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