# CMake 4.0.5 available for download

**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-4-0-5-available-for-download/15330
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [November 20, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-4-0-5-available-for-download/15330 "2025-11-20T01:01:59Z")
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### Author: ![johnwparent](https://discourse.cmake.org/user_avatar/discourse.cmake.org/johnwparent/32/2179_2.png) [@johnwparent](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/johnwparent)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-4-0-5-available-for-download/15330/1 "2025-11-20T01:01:59Z")

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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/](https://cmake.org/download/)

See also the [release notes](https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/release/4.0.html) and [release milestone](https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/milestones/187)

Thanks for your support!

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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- macOS: Remove outdated condition for CMAKE\_OSX\_DEPLOYMENT\_TARGET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