We are announcing today that all major vcpkg enterprise features are no longer experimental. The latest vcpkg release makes versioning, binary caching

Versioning, binary caching, manifests, and registries are all now available to all users of vcpkg enterprise.

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2021-05-20 06:00:02

We are announcing today that all major vcpkg enterprise features are no longer experimental. The latest vcpkg release makes versioning, binary caching, manifests and registries generally available to any developer, team or enterprise.

We have steadily been adding to vcpkg over the years. What started as a small open source project to migrate developers to newer versions of Visual Studio has expanded into a cross-platform C/C++ library manager with over 1600 libraries that can be used in a wide variety of environments to serve the entire C/C++ ecosystem.

In this blog post, we go over the latest vcpkg product announcements, particularly for those of you who missed them at the Pure Virtual C++ conference earlier this month. We are announcing the general availability of vcpkg versioning and registries, which, combined with our earlier release of manifests and binary caching, comprise our solution for vcpkg in the enterprise space. These features are free and are now on by default in the tool, no longer requiring feature flags to be manually turned on to opt in.

While we believe all developers can benefit from these four features, we believe they will be especially useful to professional developers who previously would have avoided adopting vcpkg without them.