# CMake 4.2.5 available for download

**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-4-2-5-available-for-download/15618
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [April 23, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-4-2-5-available-for-download/15618 "2026-04-23T14:59:50Z")
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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: [April 23, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-4-2-5-available-for-download/15618/1 "2026-04-23T14:59:50Z")

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We are pleased to announce that CMake 4.2.5 is now available for download.

Please use the latest release from our download page:  
[https://cmake.org/download/](https://cmake.org/download/)

or download this release from:  
[Release v4.2.5 · Kitware/CMake · GitHub](https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/v4.2.5)

See also the [release notes](https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v4.2/release/4.2.html) and [release milestone](https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/milestones/202)

Thanks for your support!

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Changes made since CMake 4.2.4:

Brad King (10):

- find\_package: Clarify dependency ordering logic in package stack
- find\_package: Save package information only after successfully loading it
- find\_package: Share package information among copies of package stack
- ci: Split macOS job configurations by architecture
- ci: Split macOS job configurations by architecture
- CTestCustom: Ignore warnings about zstd objects and libs with no symbols
- Tests/RunCMake/CMP0156: Update for Xcode 26.4
- ci: Update macos-arm64 jobs to use Xcode 26.4
- cmake: Restore normalization of `-P` script to on-disk path
- CMake 4.2.5

Gusts Kaksis (1):

- Xcode: Fix target ordering operator to meet std::sort requirements

Peter Boettcher (1):

- ConfigureLog: Eliminate unnecessary flush to improve write performance