CMake Changelog

What's new in CMake 3.29.2

Apr 12, 2024

This version made no changes to documented features or interfaces. Some implementation updates were made to support ecosystem changes and/or fix regressions.

New in CMake 3.29.1 (Apr 8, 2024)

New in CMake 3.29.0 (Mar 22, 2024)

New Features:
Command-Line:
cmake(1) -E cat can now print the standard input by passing the - argument.
Generators:
Visual Studio Generators now support selecting between the Intel oneAPI Fortran compiler (ifx) and the Intel classic Fortran compiler (ifort) using a fortran= field in CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET.
File-Based API:
The cmake-file-api(7) "codemodel" version 2 version field has been updated to 2.7.
The cmake-file-api(7) "codemodel" version 2 "target" object gained a new "launchers" field.
Compilers:
The LLVM/Clang GNU-like frontend on Windows (clang++) may now be used to compile CUDA language sources.
Compilers targeting the GNU ABI on Windows (MinGW) may now be used to compile Objective C (OBJC) and Objective C++ (OBJCXX). These include GNU compilers (gcc and g++) and the LLVM/Clang GNU-like frontends (clang and clang++).
TI Clang-based compilers are now supported with compiler id TIClang.
Commands:
The add_custom_command(TARGET) signature now supports adding build events through Alias Targets.
The cmake_language(EXIT) sub-command was added to terminate cmake -P scripts with a specified exit code.
The export(SETUP) sub-command was added to configure export sets. Its TARGET option's XCFRAMEWORK_LOCATION setting specifies the location of a .xcframework that can be substituted for an installed target.
The if() command gained new tests IS_READABLE, IS_WRITABLE and IS_EXECUTABLE to check file or directory permissions.
Variables:
The CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX environment variable was added to provide a default value for the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX variable.
The CMAKE_LINKER_TYPE variable and corresponding LINKER_TYPE target property were added to specify what linker to use with some toolchains.
The CMAKE__COMPILER_LINKER, CMAKE__COMPILER_LINKER_ID, CMAKE__COMPILER_LINKER_VERSION and CMAKE__COMPILER_LINKER_FRONTEND_VARIANT variables were added to describe the linker used by the language's link step.
The CMAKE_PROJECT_INCLUDE, CMAKE_PROJECT_INCLUDE_BEFORE, CMAKE_PROJECT__INCLUDE, and CMAKE_PROJECT__INCLUDE_BEFORE variables learned to support a semicolon-separated list of CMake language files to be included sequentially. These variables can also reference module names to be found in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH or builtin to CMake.
The CMAKE_SKIP_TEST_ALL_DEPENDENCY variable was added to control whether the test (or RUN_TESTS) buildsystem target depends on the all (or ALL_BUILD) target.
A CMAKE_TEST_LAUNCHER variable and corresponding TEST_LAUNCHER target property were added to specify a launcher to be used by executable targets when invoked by tests added by the add_test() command.
Properties:
The CROSSCOMPILING_EMULATOR target property now supports generator expressions.
The UNITY_BUILD target property now supports the Objective C (OBJC) and Objective C++ (OBJCXX) languages.
The XCODE_EMBED_XPC_SERVICES target property was added to tell the Xcode generator what targets to put in the Embed XPC Resources build phase.
Modules:
The CMakePackageConfigHelpers module gained new generate_apple_platform_selection_file() and generate_apple_architecture_selection_file() functions, which can be used to generate a file that includes another Apple-platform-specific file or the includes an architecture-specific implementation of a package for an Apple platform, respectively.
The FindOpenGL module learned to find a GLU include directory different than the GL include directory. A new OPENGL_INCLUDE_DIRS result variable provides all include directories.
CTest:
ctest(1) gained a --http-header option to add custom headers on submission to CDash.
ctest(1) gained the --tests-from-file and --exclude-from-file options to run or exclude tests named in a file.
ctest(1) now supports job server integration on POSIX systems.
The ctest -j option may now be given without a value to let ctest choose a default level of parallelism, or with 0 to let ctest use unbounded parallelism. The corresponding CTEST_PARALLEL_LEVEL environment variable, if set to the empty string, is now equivalent to passing -j with no value.
The ctest_test() command gained options INCLUDE_FROM_FILE and EXCLUDE_FROM_FILE to run or exclude tests named in a file.
CPack:
The CPack DEB Generator CPACK_DEBIAN_FILE_NAME variable may now be set without any suffix, and the .deb suffix will be added automatically.
The CPack RPM Generator CPACK_RPM_FILE_NAME variable may now be set without any suffix, and the .rpm suffix will be added automatically.
The CPack WIX Generator gained a new variable, CPACK_WIX_INSTALL_SCOPE, to control the InstallScope property of WiX MSI installers.
Other Changes:
CMake learned to de-duplicate libraries on link lines based on linker capabilities. See policy CMP0156.
The add_test() command now honors CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING_EMULATOR only when cross-compiling. See policy CMP0158.
On Windows, when targeting the MSVC ABI, the find_library() command now accepts .a file names after first considering .lib. This is symmetric with existing behavior when targeting the GNU ABI, in which the command accepts .lib file names after first considering .a.
On Windows, when targeting the MSVC ABI, the find_library() command now considers .dll.lib file names before .lib. This is the default suffix for DLL import libraries created by Rust toolchains for the MSVC ABI.
The Ninja and NMake Makefiles generators now use the -external:I flag for system includes when using IntelLLVM as of version 2021.4. The -external:W0 flag is also used as of version 2022.2.
The create_test_sourcelist() command now provides a full path to the generated driver source file.
The CPACK_PRODUCTBUILD_DOMAINS variable now defaults to true. See policy CMP0161.
The CPack WIX Generator now produces WiX MSI installers that create start menu and uninstall entries for all users by default, as documented by the CPACK_WIX_INSTALL_SCOPE variable perMachine value. Previously, without a custom WiX template, it produced installers that would only create start menu and uninstall entries for the current user, even though they install for all users.

New in CMake 3.29.0 RC 1 (Feb 14, 2024)

New Features:
Command-Line:
cmake(1) -E cat can now print the standard input by passing the - argument.
Generators:
Visual Studio Generators now support selecting between the Intel oneAPI Fortran compiler (ifx) and the Intel classic Fortran compiler (ifort) using a fortran= field in CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET.
File-Based API:
The cmake-file-api(7) "codemodel" version 2 version field has been updated to 2.7.
The cmake-file-api(7) "codemodel" version 2 "target" object gained a new "launchers" field.
Compilers:
The LLVM/Clang GNU-like frontend on Windows (clang++) may now be used to compile CUDA language sources.
Compilers targeting the GNU ABI on Windows (MinGW) may now be used to compile Objective C (OBJC) and Objective C++ (OBJCXX). These include GNU compilers (gcc and g++) and the LLVM/Clang GNU-like frontends (clang and clang++).
TI Clang-based compilers are now supported with compiler id TIClang.
Commands:
The add_custom_command(TARGET) signature now supports adding build events through Alias Targets.
The cmake_language(EXIT) sub-command was added to terminate cmake -P scripts with a specified exit code.
The export(SETUP) sub-command was added to configure export sets. Its PACKAGE_DEPENDENCY option configures how find_dependency() calls are exported. Its TARGET option's XCFRAMEWORK_LOCATION setting specifies the location of a .xcframework that can be substituted for an installed target.
The if() command gained new tests IS_READABLE, IS_WRITABLE and IS_EXECUTABLE to check file or directory permissions.
install(EXPORT) and export(EXPORT) learned a new EXPORT_PACKAGE_DEPENDENCIES argument, which can be used to generate find_dependency() calls based on what targets the exported targets depend on.
Variables:
The CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX environment variable was added to provide a default value for the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX variable.
The CMAKE_LINKER_TYPE variable and corresponding LINKER_TYPE target property were added to specify what linker to use with some toolchains.
The CMAKE__COMPILER_LINKER, CMAKE__COMPILER_LINKER_ID, CMAKE__COMPILER_LINKER_VERSION and CMAKE__COMPILER_LINKER_FRONTEND_VARIANT variables were added to describe the linker used by the language's link step.
The CMAKE_PROJECT_INCLUDE, CMAKE_PROJECT_INCLUDE_BEFORE, CMAKE_PROJECT__INCLUDE, and CMAKE_PROJECT__INCLUDE_BEFORE variables learned to support a semicolon-separated list of CMake language files to be included sequentially. These variables can also reference module names to be found in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH or builtin to CMake.
The CMAKE_SKIP_TEST_ALL_DEPENDENCY variable was added to control whether the test (or RUN_TESTS) buildsystem target depends on the all (or ALL_BUILD) target.
A CMAKE_TEST_LAUNCHER variable and corresponding TEST_LAUNCHER target property were added to specify a launcher to be used by executable targets when invoked by tests added by the add_test() command.
Properties:
The CROSSCOMPILING_EMULATOR target property now supports generator expressions.
The EXPORT_FIND_PACKAGE_NAME target property was added to allow targets to specify what package name to pass when exporting find_dependency() calls. This property is initialized with a new CMAKE_EXPORT_FIND_PACKAGE_NAME variable.
The UNITY_BUILD target property now supports the Objective C (OBJC) and Objective C++ (OBJCXX) languages.
The XCODE_EMBED_XPC_SERVICES target property was added to tell the Xcode generator what targets to put in the Embed XPC Resources build phase.
Modules:
The CMakePackageConfigHelpers module gained new generate_apple_platform_selection_file() and generate_apple_architecture_selection_file() functions, which can be used to generate a file that includes another Apple-platform-specific file or the includes an architecture-specific implementation of a package for an Apple platform, respectively.
The FindOpenGL module learned to find a GLU include directory different than the GL include directory. A new OPENGL_INCLUDE_DIRS result variable provides all include directories.
CTest:
ctest(1) gained a --http-header option to add custom headers on submission to CDash.
ctest(1) gained the --tests-from-file and --exclude-from-file options to run or exclude tests named in a file.
ctest(1) now supports job server integration on POSIX systems.
The ctest_test() command gained options INCLUDE_FROM_FILE and EXCLUDE_FROM_FILE to run or exclude tests named in a file.
CPack:
The CPack DEB Generator CPACK_DEBIAN_FILE_NAME variable may now be set without any suffix, and the .deb suffix will be added automatically.
The CPack RPM Generator CPACK_RPM_FILE_NAME variable may now be set without any suffix, and the .rpm suffix will be added automatically.
The CPack WIX Generator gained a new variable, CPACK_WIX_INSTALL_SCOPE, to control the InstallScope property of WiX MSI installers.
Other Changes:
CMake learned to de-duplicate libraries on link lines based on linker capabilities. See policy CMP0156.
The add_test() command now honors CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING_EMULATOR only when cross-compiling. See policy CMP0158.
FetchContent_MakeAvailable() now sets the CMAKE_EXPORT_FIND_PACKAGE_NAME variable for CMake projects.
On Windows, when targeting the MSVC ABI, the find_library() command now accepts .a file names after first considering .lib. This is symmetric with existing behavior when targeting the GNU ABI, in which the command accepts .lib file names after first considering .a.
On Windows, when targeting the MSVC ABI, the find_library() command now considers .dll.lib file names before .lib. This is the default suffix for DLL import libraries created by Rust toolchains for the MSVC ABI.
The Ninja and NMake Makefiles generators now use the -external:I flag for system includes when using IntelLLVM as of version 2021.4. The -external:W0 flag is also used as of version 2022.2.
The create_test_sourcelist() command now provides a full path to the generated driver source file.
The CPACK_PRODUCTBUILD_DOMAINS variable now defaults to true. See policy CMP0161.
The CPack WIX Generator now produces WiX MSI installers that create start menu and uninstall entries for all users by default, as documented by the CPACK_WIX_INSTALL_SCOPE variable perMachine value. Previously, without a custom WiX template, it produced installers that would only create start menu and uninstall entries for the current user, even though they install for all users.

New in CMake 3.28.3 (Feb 6, 2024)

New in CMake 3.28.2 (Jan 30, 2024)

Ben Boeckel (12):
cmNinjaTargetGenerator: use scan flag for modmap usage inexported commands
cmDyndepCollation: clarify CXX_MODULES-without-BMI error message
Help: update lua.org links to be HTTPS
ExternalProject: revert `BYPRODUCTS` for download outputs
Tests/CXXModules: add a test with unity build support
cmGlobalGenerator: add unity sources after computing target compile features
cmLocalGenerator: ignore scanned sources for unity builds
cmVisualStudio10TargetGenerator: fix typo in flag name
Tests/CXXModules: add a test case for VS generation without flags
cmVisualStudio10TargetGenerator: always specify scanning
Tests/CXXModules/scan_properties: use `ixx` extension
cxxmodules: make export trampoline script files unique
Brad King (12):
FindBoost: Add support for Boost 1.84
zlib: Update script to get zlib 1.2.13
CUDA/Clang: Update architectures supported by CUDA 12
CUDA/Clang: Record architectures supported by Clang 16
Source: Simplify hasher object construction
Tests: Add missing include in testUVProcessChainHelper on Windows
cmUVProcessChain: Simplify builder initialization
cmUVProcessChain: Simplify SetExternalStream usage
cmUVProcessChain: Tolerate fileno() of invalid FILE stream
Revert use of libuv for process execution for 3.28
FindFreetype: Revert use of upstream freetype cmake package
CMake 3.28.2
Craig Scott (7):
Help: Fix typo not accounting for addition of visionOS
Help: Note CMAKE_IOS_INSTALL_COMBINED deprecation in toolchains example
Help: Update missed text for dynamically generated resource spec files
Help: Use for non-keyword arguments in property command signatures
Help: Use consistently in property getter commands
Help: Add missing DIRECTORY keyword to set_tests_properties() signature
Help: Fix wrong return values for unset inherited properties
Florian Weimer (1):
Tests: Improve C compatibility of LoadCommand tests
Gergely Meszaros (2):
HIP: Really forward CMAKE_HIP_HOST_COMPILER in check_language(HIP)
HIP: Propagate CMAKE_HIP_PLATFORM from/to the test project in check_language
Hermann von Kleist (8):
FindMatlab: Restore support for versions without VersionInfo.xml
FindMatlab: use correct registry view when extracting versions
FindMatlab: Restore support for finding EXACT major.minor version
FindMatlab: matlab_get_release_name_from_version is a function now
FindMatlab: Document all registry paths for version lookup
FindMatlab: Fix error message from function
FindMatlab: Some versions use major.minor.patch in the registry
FindMatlab: Document that version mappings do not apply to MCR
Jason E. Hale (1):
UsePkgConfig: Restore removal of trailing whitespace from pkg-config output
Marc Chevrier (3):
Xcode: Restore support for standalone IMPORTED_LOCATION_
Ninja: LINK_OPTIONS property should support newlines
Help: string(LENGTH): Fix synopsis link to command description
Matheus Izvekov (1):
cxxmodules: compute link information for C++ module-consuming targets
Orkun Tokdemir (4):
Makefile: Reduce string copies
Makefile: Fix double escaping when DEPFILE is used
cmQtAutoGenInitializer: Improve Const-correctness
Autogen: Forward dependencies when both Makefile and DEPFILE are used
Rafael Sadowski (1):
Source: Restore compilation on OpenBSD
Robert Maynard (2):
CUDAToolkit: Correctly search all include paths from compiler
Tests: Verify CUDA::cupti existence on a subset of machines
scivision (2):
FindMatlab: Fix major.minor version lookups in Windows Registry
FindMatlab: Accept long version in matlab_get_release_name_from_version
zlib upstream (1):
zlib 2022-10-12 (04f42cec)

New in CMake 3.28.1 (Dec 15, 2023)

New in CMake 3.28.0 (Dec 7, 2023)

New Features:
Languages:
C++ 20 named modules are now supported by Ninja Generators and Visual Studio Generators for VS 2022 and newer, in combination with the MSVC 14.34 toolset (provided with VS 17.4) and newer, LLVM/Clang 16.0 and newer, and GCC 14 (after the 2023-09-20 daily bump) and newer. See "cmake-cxxmodules(7)" for details.
"HIP" language code may now be compiled for NVIDIA GPUs using the NVIDIA CUDA Compiler (NVCC). See the "CMAKE_HIP_PLATFORM" variable.
Platforms:
On Apple platforms, ".xcframework" folders are now supported:
The "find_library()" command now finds ".xcframework" folders.
The "target_link_libraries()" command now supports linking against a ".xcframework" folder.
The "IMPORTED_LOCATION" target property of an imported library target may now be the path to a ".xcframework" folder.
Apple visionOS and its "xros" and "xrsimulator" SDKs are now supported. Compiling for Apple visionOS can be requested by setting "CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME" to "visionOS". See Cross Compiling for iOS, tvOS, visionOS, or watchOS for more information.
Presets:
"cmake-presets(7)" files now support schema version "8". It adds support for a "$schema" field.
Compilers:
Cray Clang-based compilers are now supported with "compiler id" "CrayClang".
The OrangeC compiler is now supported with "compiler id" "OrangeC".
Commands:
The "add_custom_command()" and "add_custom_target()" commands gained a "JOB_SERVER_AWARE" option.
The "cmake_host_system_information()" command gained a "MSYSTEM_PREFIX" query for the installation prefix of a MSYS or MinGW development environment on Windows hosts.
The "set_property()" command "TEST" mode gained a "DIRECTORY" option to set properties on tests in other directories.
The "set_tests_properties()" command gained a "DIRECTORY" option to set properties on tests in other directories.
The "get_property()" command "TEST" mode gained a "DIRECTORY" option to get properties on tests in other directories.
The "get_test_property()" command gained a "DIRECTORY" option to get properties on tests in other directories.
Variables:
The "CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING_EMULATOR" environment variable was added to initialize the "CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING_EMULATOR" cache variable.
The "CMAKE_HIP_PLATFORM" variable was added to specify the GPU platform for which HIP language sources are to be compiled ("amd" or "nvidia").
Properties:
On imported shared libraries, the "IMPORTED_IMPLIB" target property may now be used without "IMPORTED_LOCATION". This can be used to represent a stub library whose location should not be added as a runtime search path to dependents that link it.
The "IMPORTED_LOCATION" property of a macOS framework may now be a path to the ".framework" folder itself.
The "XCODE_EMBED_RESOURCES" target property was added to tell the "Xcode" generator what targets to put in the "Embed Resources" build phase.
Modules:
The "ExternalProject" module now includes the "BUILD_JOB_SERVER_AWARE" option for the "ExternalProject_Add()" command. This option enables the integration of the GNU Make job server when using an explicit "BUILD_COMMAND" with certain Makefile Generators. Additionally, the "ExternalProject_Add_Step()" command has been updated to support the new "JOB_SERVER_AWARE" option.
The "ExternalProject" module now declares "BYPRODUCTS" for the downloaded file for generated "download" steps. Previously, if multiple external projects downloaded to the same file, hash verification could fail. Now, when using the Ninja Generators, this scenario is detected and Ninja will raise an error stating that multiple rules generate the same file.
The "FetchContent" module's "FetchContent_Declare()" command gained an "EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL" option, which propagates through to the "add_subdirectory()" call made by "FetchContent_MakeAvailable()" for the dependency.
The "FindCURL" module gained a "CURL_USE_STATIC_LIBS" hint to select static libraries.
The "FindEXPAT" module gained an "EXPAT_USE_STATIC_LIBS" hint to select static libraries.
The "FindPkgConfig" module "pkg_get_variable()" command gained a "DEFINE_VARIABLES" option to pass variables to "pkg-config".
Generator Expressions:
The "generator expressions" "$ ", "$ ", and "$ " short-circuit to avoid unnecessary evaluation of parameters.
CTest:
CTest may now take a dynamically-generated resource spec file, which can be specified by the "GENERATED_RESOURCE_SPEC_FILE" test property.
Deprecated and Removed Features:
The "exec_program()" command, which has been deprecated since CMake 3.0, has been removed by policy "CMP0153". Use the "execute_process()" command instead.
The "Visual Studio 11 2012" generator has been removed.
The "Visual Studio 12 2013" generator is now deprecated and will be removed in a future version of CMake.
The "IOS_INSTALL_COMBINED" target property and corresponding "CMAKE_IOS_INSTALL_COMBINED" variable have been deprecated. Their functionality does not make sense on Apple Silicon hosts.
The "Xcode" generator will now issue a fatal error if the Legacy Build System has been selected for Xcode 14 and newer. Those Xcode versions dropped support for the Legacy Build System and expect the project to be set-up for their current Build System.
Other Changes:
Generated files, in targets using File Sets, are now considered private by default. Generated public headers must be specified using file sets. This allows Ninja Generators to produce more efficient build graphs. See policy "CMP0154".
The "find_library()", "find_path()", and "find_file()" commands no longer search in installation prefixes derived from the "PATH" environment variable. This behavior was added in CMake 3.3 to support MSYS and MinGW ("MSYSTEM") development environments on Windows, but it can search undesired prefixes that happen to be in the "PATH" for unrelated reasons. Users who keep some "/bin" directories in the "PATH" just for their tools do not necessarily want any corresponding "/lib" or "/include" directories searched. The behavior was reverted for non-Windows platforms by CMake 3.6. Now it has been reverted on Windows platforms too.
One may set the "CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH" environment variable with a semicolon-separated list of prefixes that are to be searched.
When using MinGW tools in a "MSYSTEM" environment on Windows, the "$MSYSTEM_PREFIX/local" and "$MSYSTEM_PREFIX" prefixes are now added to "CMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH".
The precompiled Linux "x86_64" binaries provided on cmake.org now require GLIBC 2.17 or higher.

New in CMake 3.27.9 (Nov 29, 2023)

New in CMake 3.27.8 (Nov 16, 2023)

New in CMake 3.28.0 RC 1 (Oct 11, 2023)

New Features:
Languages:
C++ 20 named modules are now supported by Ninja Generators and Visual Studio Generators for VS 2022 and newer, in combination with the MSVC 14.34 toolset (provided with VS 17.4) and newer, LLVM/Clang 16.0 and newer, and GCC 14 (after the 2023-09-20 daily bump) and newer. See "cmake-cxxmodules(7)" for details.
"HIP" language code may now be compiled for NVIDIA GPUs using the NVIDIA CUDA Compiler (NVCC). See the "CMAKE_HIP_PLATFORM" variable.
Platforms:
On Apple platforms, ".xcframework" folders are now supported:
The "find_library()" command now finds ".xcframework" folders.
The "target_link_libraries()" command now supports linking against
a ".xcframework" folder.
The "IMPORTED_LOCATION" target property of an imported library target may now be the path to a ".xcframework" folder.
Apple visionOS and its "xros" and "xrsimulator" SDKs are now supported. Compiling for Apple visionOS can be requested by setting "CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME" to "visionOS". See Cross Compiling for iOS, tvOS, visionOS, or watchOS for more information.
Presets:
"cmake-presets(7)" files now support schema version "8". It adds support for a "$schema" field.
Compilers:
Cray Clang-based compilers are now supported with "compiler id" "CrayClang".
The OrangeC compiler is now supported with "compiler id" "OrangeC".
Commands:
The "add_custom_command()" and "add_custom_target()" commands gained a "JOB_SERVER_AWARE" option.
The "cmake_host_system_information()" command gained a "MSYSTEM_PREFIX" query for the installation prefix of a MSYS or MinGW development environment on Windows hosts.
The "set_property()" command "TEST" mode gained a "DIRECTORY" option to set properties on tests in other directories.
The "set_tests_properties()" command gained a "DIRECTORY" option to set properties on tests in other directories.
The "get_property()" command "TEST" mode gained a "DIRECTORY" option to get properties on tests in other directories.
The "get_test_property()" command gained a "DIRECTORY" option to get properties on tests in other directories.
Variables:
The "CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING_EMULATOR" environment variable was added to initialize the "CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING_EMULATOR" cache variable.
The "CMAKE_HIP_PLATFORM" variable was added to specify the GPU platform for which HIP language sources are to be compiled ("amd" or "nvidia").
Properties:
On imported shared libraries, the "IMPORTED_IMPLIB" target property may now be used without "IMPORTED_LOCATION". This can be used to represent a stub library whose location should not be added as a runtime search path to dependents that link it.
The "IMPORTED_LOCATION" property of a macOS framework may now be a path to the ".framework" folder itself.
The "XCODE_EMBED_RESOURCES" target property was added to tell the "Xcode" generator what targets to put in the "Embed Resources" build phase.
Modules:
The "ExternalProject" module now includes the "BUILD_JOB_SERVER_AWARE" option for the "ExternalProject_Add()" command. This option enables the integration of the GNU Make job server when using an explicit "BUILD_COMMAND" with certain Makefile Generators. Additionally, the "ExternalProject_Add_Step()" command has been updated to support the new "JOB_SERVER_AWARE" option.
The "ExternalProject" module now declares "BYPRODUCTS" for the downloaded file for generated "download" steps. Previously, if multiple external projects downloaded to the same file, hash verification could fail. Now, when using the Ninja Generators, this scenario is detected and Ninja will raise an error stating that multiple rules generate the same file.
The "FetchContent" module's "FetchContent_Declare()" command gained an "EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL" option, which propagates through to the "add_subdirectory()" call made by "FetchContent_MakeAvailable()" for the dependency.
The "FindCURL" module gained a "CURL_USE_STATIC_LIBS" hint to select static libraries.
The "FindEXPAT" module gained an "EXPAT_USE_STATIC_LIBS" hint to select static libraries.
The "FindPkgConfig" module "pkg_get_variable()" command gained a "DEFINE_VARIABLES" option to pass variables to "pkg-config".
Generator Expressions:
The "generator expressions" "$ ", "$ ", and "$ " short-circuit to avoid unnecessary evaluation of parameters.
CTest:
CTest may now take a dynamically-generated resource spec file, which can be specified by the "GENERATED_RESOURCE_SPEC_FILE" test property.
Deprecated and Removed Features:
The "exec_program()" command, which has been deprecated since CMake 3.0, has been removed by policy "CMP0153". Use the "execute_process()" command instead.
The "Visual Studio 11 2012" generator has been removed.
The "Visual Studio 12 2013" generator is now deprecated and will be removed in a future version of CMake.
The "IOS_INSTALL_COMBINED" target property and corresponding "CMAKE_IOS_INSTALL_COMBINED" variable have been deprecated. Their functionality does not make sense on Apple Silicon hosts.
The "Xcode" generator will now issue a fatal error if the Legacy Build System has been selected for Xcode 14 and newer. Those Xcode versions dropped support for the Legacy Build System and expect the project to be set-up for their current Build System.
Other Changes:
Generated files, in targets using File Sets, are now considered private by default. Generated public headers must be specified using file sets. This allows Ninja Generators to produce more efficient build graphs. See policy "CMP0154".
The "find_library()", "find_path()", and "find_file()" commands no longer search in installation prefixes derived from the "PATH" environment variable. This behavior was added in CMake 3.3 to support MSYS and MinGW ("MSYSTEM") development environments on Windows, but it can search undesired prefixes that happen to be in the "PATH" for unrelated reasons. Users who keep some "/bin" directories in the "PATH" just for their tools do not necessarily want any corresponding "/lib" or "/include" directories searched. The behavior was reverted or non-Windows platforms by CMake 3.6. Now it has been reverted on Windows platforms too.
One may set the "CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH" environment variable with a semicolon-separated list of prefixes that are to be searched.
When using MinGW tools in a "MSYSTEM" environment on Windows, the "$MSYSTEM_PREFIX/local" and "$MSYSTEM_PREFIX" prefixes are now added to "CMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH".
The precompiled Linux "x86_64" binaries provided on cmake.org now require GLIBC 2.17 or higher.

New in CMake 3.27.7 (Oct 9, 2023)

New in CMake 3.27.6 (Sep 22, 2023)

New in CMake 3.27.4 (Aug 23, 2023)

New in CMake 3.27.3 (Aug 17, 2023)

New in CMake 3.27.2 (Aug 11, 2023)

New in CMake 3.27.1 (Jul 26, 2023)

New in CMake 3.26.5 (Jul 20, 2023)

New in CMake 3.26.4 (May 19, 2023)

New in CMake 3.26.3 (Apr 7, 2023)

New in CMake 3.26.2 (Mar 31, 2023)

New in CMake 3.26.1 (Mar 24, 2023)

New in CMake 3.25.3 (Mar 9, 2023)

New in CMake 3.26.0 RC 1 (Feb 3, 2023)

New in CMake 3.25.2 (Jan 20, 2023)

New in CMake 3.25.0 (Dec 1, 2022)

New Features:
Presets:
The cmake-presets(7) schema version has been bumped to 6.
The cmake-presets(7) format now supports a packagePresets field to specify presets for cpack --preset.
The cmake-presets(7) format now supports a workflowPresets field to specify presets for cmake --workflow.
The cmake-presets(7) format now supports an outputJUnitFile field to specify JUnit output in test presets.
Languages:
The Compile Features functionality is now aware of C++26, and defines a cxx_std_26 meta-feature. C++26 compiler modes may also be specified via the CXX_STANDARD, CUDA_STANDARD, HIP_STANDARD, or OBJCXX_STANDARD target properties.
CUDA language support now includes device link-time optimization when using nvcc. The CMAKE_INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION variable and the associated INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION target property will activate device LTO.
Command-Line:
A cmake --workflow --preset mode was added to drive sequences of configure, build, test, and package operations through a single command.
The cmake -E capabilities command gained a new tls field that tells whether or not TLS is enabled.
The cmake -E env command-line tool gained a --modify flag to support ENVIRONMENT_MODIFICATION operations.
The cmake --debug-trycompile option now prints log messages reporting the directory in which each try-compile check is done.
Compilers:
Support for the Tasking compiler toolsets (SmartCode, TriCore, Standalone: ARM, MCS, 8051) was added with compiler id Tasking. See the CMAKE_TASKING_TOOLSET variable.
Commands:
The add_subdirectory() command gained a SYSTEM option to enable the SYSTEM directory property in the subdirectory.
The block() and endblock() commands were added to manage specific scopes (policy or variable) for a contained block of commands.
The cmake_language() command gained a new GET_MESSAGE_LOG_LEVEL sub-command. It can be used to query the current message logging level.
The find_file(), find_path(), find_library(), and find_program() commands gained a VALIDATOR option to specify a function to be called for each candidate item to validate it.
The find_package() command now considers paths of the form /*/(cmake|CMake)/*/ when searching for package configuration files.
The return() command gained a PROPAGATE option to propagate variables to the scope to which control returns. See policy CMP0140.
The try_compile() and try_run() commands gained new signatures that more consistently use keyword dispatch and do not require a binary directory to be specified. Additionally, these signatures use a unique directory for each invocation, which allows multiple outputs to be preserved when using cmake --debug-trycompile.
The try_compile() and try_run() commands gained the option NO_CACHE to store results in normal variables.
The try_run() command gained RUN_OUTPUT_STDOUT_VARIABLE and RUN_OUTPUT_STDERR_VARIABLE options to capture stdout and stderr separately from the output of the compiled program.
Variables:
The BSD and CMAKE_HOST_BSD variables are now set to a string value when the target or host system is BSD, respectively.
The LINUX and CMAKE_HOST_LINUX variables are now set to true when the target or host system is Linux, respectively.
The CMAKE_MSVC_DEBUG_INFORMATION_FORMAT variable and MSVC_DEBUG_INFORMATION_FORMAT target property were introduced to select the debug information format for compilers targeting the MSVC ABI. See policy CMP0141.
The CMAKE_XCODE_SCHEME_ENABLE_GPU_API_VALIDATION variable and corresponding XCODE_SCHEME_ENABLE_GPU_API_VALIDATION target property were added to tell the Xcode generator what to put in the scheme's Metal: API Validation setting.
The CMAKE_XCODE_SCHEME_ENABLE_GPU_SHADER_VALIDATION variable and corresponding XCODE_SCHEME_ENABLE_GPU_SHADER_VALIDATION target property were added to tell the Xcode generator what to put in the scheme's Metal: Shader Validation setting.
The CMAKE_XCODE_SCHEME_LAUNCH_MODE variable and corresponding XCODE_SCHEME_LAUNCH_MODE target property were added to tell the Xcode generator what to put in the scheme's "Launch" mode setting.
The CMAKE_XCODE_SCHEME_LAUNCH_CONFIGURATION variable and corresponding XCODE_SCHEME_LAUNCH_CONFIGURATION target property were added to tell the Xcode generator what configuration to put in the scheme's Launch action.
Properties:
The _COMPILER_LAUNCHER target property now supports generator expressions.
The EXPORT_NO_SYSTEM target property was added to specify that install(EXPORT) and export() commands will generate na imported target with SYSTEM property OFF.
The SYSTEM target property was added to specify whether a target should be treated as a system library (i.e. its include directories are automatically SYSTEM when compiling consumers). If not set, the default is the previous behavior: on for imported targets and off for other targets.
The SYSTEM directory property was added to initialize the SYSTEM target property for targets created in that directory.
Modules:
The FetchContent module FetchContent_Declare() command gained a SYSTEM option to enable the SYSTEM directory property in the subdirectory.
The FindCUDAToolkit module now provides a target for nvtx3 for CUDA 10.0+, which supersedes nvToolsExt. A deprecation warning is emitted when using nvToolsExt if the project requires CMake 3.25 and CUDA 10.0+ is used.
The FindDoxygen module's version handling has been improved:
Multiple candidate installations will now be considered, if needed, to satisfy version constraints. Previously, only the first one encountered would be considered.
Version ranges are supported.
Variations in the version format reported by Doxygen are now tolerated (e.g. a trailing git commit hash).
The FindOpenAL module now provides an imported target.
The FindOpenSP module was added to find the OpenSP library.
The FindVulkan module gained support for new components:
dxc:
DirectX Shader Compiler.
volk:
Volk open-source vulkan meta-loader.
CPack:
The CPack Archive Generator gained a new CPACK_ARCHIVE_FILE_EXTENSION variable to control the package file name extension.
The CPack NSIS Generator gained two new variables CPACK_NSIS_EXECUTABLE_PRE_ARGUMENTS and CPACK_NSIS_EXECUTABLE_POST_ARGUMENTS to provide arguments to the nsis executable invocation.
The CPack module gained the CPACK_READELF_EXECUTABLE, CPACK_OBJCOPY_EXECUTABLE, and CPACK_OBJDUMP_EXECUTABLE variables to control the locations of binutils used by cpack(1).
Deprecated and Removed Features:
The IMPORTED_NO_SYSTEM target property has been deprecated in favor of SYSTEM and EXPORT_NO_SYSTEM.
The Visual Studio 10 2010 generator has been removed.
The Visual Studio 11 2012 generator is now deprecated and will be removed in a future version of CMake.
Other Changes:
The SSL_CERT_FILE and SSL_CERT_DIR environment variables can now be used to override where to find certificate authorities for TLS/SSL operations.
If _CLANG_TIDY includes a -p argument, the full compiler command line is no longer appended after --.
The Xcode generator no longer adds the per-config suffix $(CONFIGURATION)$(EFFECTIVE_PLATFORM_NAME) to library search paths. See policy CMP0142.
Updates:
Changes made since CMake 3.25.0 include the following.

New in CMake 3.25.0 RC 3 (Nov 2, 2022)

New in CMake 3.24.3 (Nov 2, 2022)

New in CMake 3.25.0 RC 2 (Nov 2, 2022)

New in CMake 3.25.0 RC 1 (Oct 13, 2022)

New in CMake 3.24.2 (Sep 14, 2022)

Albert Astals Cid (1):
automoc: avoid more compiler warnings in linker-warning-silencing code
Ben Boeckel (1):
ExternalProject: note the default of `GIT_TAG` being `master`
Brad King (8):
Help: Clarify that variable references may use cache entries
ci: use CMake 3.24.1
gitlab-ci: Use separate MSVC toolset specification for packaging jobs
gitlab-ci: Update non-packaging Windows builds to MSVC 14.33 toolset
Tests: Teach RunCMake.SymlinkTrees to tolerate CCACHE_BASEDIR
automoc: revert attempts to silence linker warning on macos
Tests: Add cases covering bad ctest output truncation types
CMake 3.24.2
Craig Scott (6):
Help: Add missing closing quote on C++ example
Help: Add crossrefs to ctest output control options
Help: Fix typos, grammar and formatting in CMP0134 policy docs
Help: Fix wrong casing of GTest in FetchContent integration example
FetchContent: Fix unsetting wrong variable name after provider returns
FetchContent: Ignore EXACT for redirected find_package() calls
Daniel Scharrer (1):
FindZLIB: fix CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_PREFIXES being unset when it was empty
Frank Winklmeier (2):
RunCMakeTest: fix Truncation test definition
ctest: print error for invalid CTEST_CUSTOM_TEST_OUTPUT_TRUNCATION
Gilles Gouaillardet (1):
FortranCInterface: Add support for LLVMFlang mangling
Kargatum (1):
FindBoost: Add support for Boost 1.80
Kyle Edwards (2):
Tests: Fix VS10Project SourceGroupTreeCMakeLists check
FILE_SET: Fix source group detection
Marc Chevrier (4):
Xcode: Fix erroneous MACOSX_BUNDLE link
Help: cmake-developer: Add section for Windows registry access.
renames method FinalizeTargetCompileInfo() in FinalizeTargetConfiguration().
Check link libraries properties: fix performances regression
Mathieu Malaterre (1):
Help: Fix typo in FetchContent example, extras should read extra
Robert Maynard (4):
FindCUDAToolkit: Search the cuda toolkit include path for cupti
cmFindBase: Refactor CMAKE_FIND_USE_INSTALL_PREFIX handling
CMAKE_FIND_USE_INSTALL_PREFIX considers CMAKE_STAGING_PREFIX
FindCUDAToolkit: Correctly state cusolver and cublas dependencies
parkesb (1):
FindPostgreSQL: Add brew-style directories to search path

New in CMake 3.24.1 (Aug 22, 2022)

New in CMake 3.23.3 (Jul 29, 2022)

New in CMake 3.24.0 RC 1 (Jun 16, 2022)

New in CMake 3.23.2 (May 26, 2022)

Alex Turbov (1):
CPack/NuGet: Restore component packaging on Windows
Ben Boeckel (2):
cmInstallCommand: tweak error message
cmExportBuildFileGenerator: handle genex-wrapped source paths
Brad King (20):
ci: use CMake 3.23.1
CheckLinkerFlag: Catch linker warning when the checked flag is ignored
CheckCompilerFlags: Revert "Catch linker warning about ignored flags"
Tests: Teach RunCMake to ignore Xcode extension point warnings
gitlab-ci: update macOS jobs to use Xcode 13.3
FindBoost: Add support for Boost 1.79
Utilities/Sphinx: Clarify names of variables listing post-sphinx commands
Utilities/Sphinx: Add variables listing pre-sphinx commands
Tutorial: Provide a source archive when published on cmake.org
cmGeneratedFileStream: Do not remove empty path
FindPkgConfig: Fix preservation of ENV{PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_SYSTEM_LIBS}
gitlab-ci: Update Windows builds to MSVC 19.32 toolset
VS: Fix CUDA CodeGeneration field for CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=OFF
FortranCInterface: Fix failure with gfortran 12 and Clang
Clang: Use -imsvc flag without space to support Clang tools
file(GET_RUNTIME_DEPENDENCIES): Support VS 2022 without VS 2019
libarchive: Update script to get 3.5.3
libarchive: include archive_platform.h first in blake2s sources
libarchive: Update build within CMake after changes in 3.5.3
CMake 3.23.2
Craig Scott (1):
productbuild: Restore CPACK_PACKAGEMAKER_CHOICES variable
Eisuke Kawashima (1):
Help: Document when HIP_COMPILER generator expressions were added
Gregor Jasny (1):
Tests: Ignore all classes in Xcode internal objc warnings
Jean-Philippe Lebel (1):
CPackIFW: Fix regression in icon file names
Kyle Edwards (2):
FILE_SET: Make INTERFACE libraries with HEADER_SETS participate in buildsystem
Help: Remove references to MODULE in $ doc
LibArchive Upstream (1):
LibArchive 2022-02-08 (673c1eae)
Marc Chevrier (3):
FindPython: Add support for pypy v7.3.9 and uppers
FindPython: fix typo error
FindJava, FindJNI: ensure correct handling of versions on Windows
Martin Duffy (4):
Help/guide: Fix wrong header file reference
ccmake: Move Initialization of Fields Inline
ccmake: Fix crash when deleting all cache entries
ccmake: Fix infinite loop during invalid search
Michael Hirsch (1):
FindPython: add support for Python 3.12
friendlyanon (1):
CMakePackageConfigHelpers: Fix note about version files supporting ranges

New in CMake 3.23.1 (Apr 13, 2022)

Ben Boeckel (3):
CMakeDependentOption: improve documentation
cmFileSet: store visibility with the fileset
cmTarget: make HEADER_SETS and INTERFACE_HEADER_SETS read-only
Brad King (19):
GNUInstallDirs: Revert "Apply Debian multiarch LIBDIR to more prefixes"
Help: Clarify when policy CMP0112 takes effect
gitlab-ci: clarify name of package upload job template
gitlab-ci: distinguish release and development pipeline schedules
gitlab-ci: add sanity check to upload jobs
gitlab-ci: simplify package pipeline job conditions
gitlab-ci: start release package pipelines manually
Utilities/Sphinx: Add undocumented option to build docs for cmake.org
Utilities/Sphinx: Add option to build outdated version banner for cmake.org
Utilities/Sphinx: Add OpenSearch link to html page headers on cmake.org
gitlab-ci: consolidate jobs for cmake.org/cmake/help/git-{master,stage} docs
gitlab-ci: update cmake.org documentation in release package pipeline
gitlab-ci: Add objects.inv to cmake.org html documentation
gitlab-ci: Build qthelp-format release documentation for cmake.org
Help: Add "Updates" section header in 3.22 release notes
Utilities/Sphinx: Update qthelp generation to qhelpgenerator
CheckCompilerFlag: Fix regression in locale environment preservation
Help: Document that target_sources defines [INTERFACE_]HEADER_SETS
CMake 3.23.1
Craig Scott (3):
CheckSourceCompiles: Avoid linker warning with -fembed-bitcode
Help: Correct/add missing details for CheckPIESupported
CheckPIESupported: Prevent separate output lines running together
Cristian Adam (1):
PCH: Fix Xcode non-pch language exclusion
Eugene Shalygin (1):
Help: Fix typo in install command documentation
Even Rouault (1):
FindPostgreSQL: add support for PostgreSQL 14
Gregor Jasny (1):
Tests: Ignore all classes in Xcode internal objc warnings
Kyle Edwards (1):
FILE_SET: Forbid adding header sets to Apple FRAMEWORK libraries
Robert Maynard (2):
CUDA: Ninja generator generates valid compile database
cmake: --list=presets=[type] doesn't generate incorrect warnings
Tobias Nießen (2):
Help: Fix string(JSON ... LENGTH ...) signature
Help: Add that CMAKE_CACHEFILE_DIR might not be defined

New in CMake 3.22.3 (Mar 7, 2022)

New in CMake 3.22.2 (Jan 25, 2022)

New in CMake 3.22.1 (Dec 8, 2021)

New in CMake 3.21.4 (Oct 28, 2021)

New in CMake 3.21.3 (Sep 21, 2021)

New in CMake 3.21.2 (Aug 26, 2021)

New in CMake 3.21.1 (Jul 27, 2021)

Alexey Edelev (2):
AUTOUIC: Fix cyclic dependency between generated UI headers and timestamp
AUTOUIC: Fix generating of dependency rules for UI header files
Ben Boeckel (5):
ci: use CMake 3.21.0
Help/ctest_memcheck: mention `ctest_test` arguments
TestDriver: suppress deprecated header lints for time.h
TestDriver: use `CM_NULL` to avoid lints about `nullptr` usage
Help/ctest_test: add a comment to also update `ctest_memcheck`
Brad King (29):
enable_language: Fix test for working compiler with CMP0126 NEW behavior
VS: Recognize CSharp VS 2019 compiler version v142
VS: Improve v142 CL flag table LanguageStandard ordering
VS: Add CSharp VS 2022 compiler version and flag table v143
VS: Add v143 flag tables for VS 17.0 Preview 2
VS: Fix `/MANIFESTUAC:` link flag mapping for v143
VS: Map the link `/debug` flag for v143
VS: Remove the /MERGE flag from v143 link flag table
VS: Fix `/analyze:log` flag mapping for v143
VS: Add `-Zc:inline[-]` flag table entry for v143
VS: Populate `/Y-` flag table entry for v143
VS: Populate `-Qspectre-` flag table entry for v143
VS: Populate `/JMC-` flag table entry for v143
VS: Remove empty ConformanceMode entry from flag table for v143
VS: Remove empty LanguageStandard entries from flag table for v143
VS: Remove empty ExternalWarningLevel entry from flag table for v143
VS: Remove broken EnableASAN entry from flag table for v143
VS: Fix `/sourceDependencies` flag table entries for v143
VS: Update Visual Studio 17 2022 generator for Preview 2
CMakeDetermineCompilerId: Fix CMAKE_EXECUTABLE_FORMAT in CMP0126 NEW behavior
try_compile: Propagate CMP0126 to the generated test project
CMakeDependentOption: Revert "Allow parentheses in the depends string"
cmMessenger: Revert to non-color messages on Windows
cmGeneratorExpressionNode: Factor out local variable for global generator
Swift: Update test case to try CMP0126 NEW behavior
Ninja Multi-Config: Restore TARGET_OBJECTS support in cross-configs
VS: Remove cl /FS entry from flag table for v142 and v143
VS: Remove C++ module CompileAs flag table entries for v142 and v143
CMake 3.21.1
Craig Scott (10):
Help: Clarify wording of CMP0124
Help: Explain policy CMP0125 in more detail
Help: Make policy CMP0126 wording more accurate
Help: Fix trivial typo
Help: Clarify which project() call PROJECT_IS_TOP_LEVEL is for
Help: Re-order file() sub-commands in Filesystem section
Help: Expand details for file(COPY_FILE)
Help: Clarify and correct wording around DEPFILE option
Help: Improve wording and cross-referencing for ctest JUnit output
Help: Add cross-references between test output size ctest variables
Jean-Marc Hengen (1):
IAR: Moved search logic to BinUtils.
Joerg Bornemann (1):
AutoGen: Fix needless compilation of mocs_compilation.cpp
KWSys Upstream (1):
KWSys 2021-07-26 (d5fd6ca2)
Kyle Edwards (2):
CMakePresets.json: Fix expansion issue with empty binaryDir
Tests: Clean up Ninja Multi-Config test from cb777dd
Lorenzo Cappelletti (3):
Compiler/IAR: search for both IAR's binaries * and *.exe
Compiler/IAR: Avoid clobbering CMAKE_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX
Help: Document CMAKE_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX_ explicitly
Martin Storsjö (1):
libuv: Fix building with mingw toolchains for ARM/AArch64
Raul Tambre (1):
GNU: Correct C23 flags
Yauheni Khnykin (1):
FindXCTest: Fix output directory for test bundle with Xcode 12.5
Đoàn Trần Công Danh (2):
Tests/CompileOptions: allow CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None
Add option to explicitly avoid using execinfo for backtraces

New in CMake 3.20.5 (Jun 22, 2021)

New in CMake 3.20.4 (Jun 15, 2021)

New in CMake 3.20.3 (May 28, 2021)

New in CMake 3.20.2 (Apr 29, 2021)

New in CMake 3.20.1 (Apr 9, 2021)

New in CMake 3.20.0 (Mar 24, 2021)

New Features:
Presets:
"cmake-presets(7)" gained support for build and test presets.
Generators:
Makefile Generators, for some toolchains, now use the compiler to extract implicit dependencies while compiling source files.
Languages:
C++23 compiler modes may now be specified via the "CXX_STANDARD", "CUDA_STANDARD", or "OBJCXX_STANDARD" target properties, or via the "Compile Features" functionality’s "cxx_std_23" meta-feature.
"CUDA" language support now works when "nvcc" is a symbolic link, for example due to a "ccache" or "colornvcc" wrapper script.
The "CUDAARCHS" environment variable was added for initializing "CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES". Useful in cases where the compiler default is unsuitable for the machine’s GPU.
Compilers:
The NVIDIA HPC SDK compilers are now supported with compiler id "NVHPC".
The Intel oneAPI NextGen LLVM compilers are now supported with compiler id "IntelLLVM":
The "icx"/"icpx" C/C++ compilers on Linux, and the "icx" C/C++ compiler on Windows, are fully supported as of oneAPI 2021.1.
The "ifx" Fortran compiler on Linux is partially supported. As of oneAPI 2021.1, "ifx" does not define several identification macros, so CMake identifies it as the classic "Intel" compiler. This works in many cases because "ifx" accepts the same command line parameters as "ifort". A future version of oneAPI may fix this.
The "ifx" Fortran compiler on Windows is not yet supported.
The Intel oneAPI Classic compilers ("icc", "icpc", and "ifort") continue to be supported with compiler id "Intel".
Support was added for the IAR STM8 compiler.
Platforms:
CMake’s support for Cross Compiling for Android is now merged with the Android NDK’s toolchain file. They now have similar behavior, though some variable names differ. User-facing changes include:
"find_*" functions will search NDK ABI / API specific paths by default.
The default "CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE" for Android is now "RelWithDebInfo".
The "CMAKE_ANDROID_NDK_VERSION" variable was added to report the version of the NDK.
File-Based API:
The "cmake-file-api(7)" gained a new “toolchains” object kind that describes the compiler used for each enabled language.
Commands:
"add_custom_command()" and "add_custom_target()" now support "generator expressions" in their "OUTPUT" and "BYPRODUCTS" options.
Their "COMMAND", "WORKING_DIRECTORY", and "DEPENDS" options gained support for new generator expressions "" and "" that control cross-config handling when using the "Ninja Multi-Config" generator.
The "add_custom_command()" command gained "DEPFILE" support on Makefile Generators.
The "add_library()" command previously prohibited imported object libraries when using potentially multi-architecture configurations. This mostly affected the "Xcode" generator, e.g. when targeting iOS or one of the other device platforms. This restriction has now been removed.
The "cmake_path()" command was added for operations on filesystem paths.
The "configure_file()" command gained "USE_SOURCE_PERMISSIONS" and "FILE_PERMISSIONS" options to support copying of permissions of the source file and using specified permissions respectively.
The "file(GENERATE)" command gained a "NEWLINE_STYLE" option to specify how newlines are handled for the generated file.
The "file(GENERATE)" command gained "NO_SOURCE_PERMISSIONS", "USE_SOURCE_PERMISSIONS", and "FILE_PERMISSIONS" options for controlling the permissions of the generated file.
The "install(FILES)" command "RENAME" option learned to support "generator expressions".
The "target_include_directories()" command gained a new option "AFTER".
The "target_sources()" command now supports targets created by the "add_custom_target()" command.
The "try_run()" command gained a "WORKING_DIRECTORY" option to set the working directory in which to run the compiled check executable.
Variables:
The "CMAKE__BYTE_ORDER" variable was added to provide the target architecture byte order detected from the toolchain.
The "CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY", "CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY", and "CMAKE_ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY" variables now support target-dependent generator expressions.
Properties:
The "_CLANG_TIDY" target property and the associated "CMAKE__CLANG_TIDY" variable learned to support the "OBJC" and "OBJCXX" languages.
The "EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS" target property was added for the associated "CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS" variable to allow for configuration of exporting compile commands per target.
The "GENERATED" source-file property is now visible from any directory scope, regardless of the scope in which it is set. See policy "CMP0118".
The "UNITY_BUILD_UNIQUE_ID" target property was added to support generation of an identifier that is unique per source file in unity builds. It can help to resolve duplicate symbol problems with anonymous namespaces.
The "WIN32_EXECUTABLE" target property now works with Clang on Windows.
The "XCODE_EMBED_FRAMEWORKS" target property was added to tell the "Xcode" generator to embed frameworks. Aspects of the embedding can be customized with the "XCODE_EMBED_FRAMEWORKS_PATH", "XCODE_EMBED_FRAMEWORKS_CODE_SIGN_ON_COPY", and "XCODE_EMBED_FRAMEWORKS_REMOVE_HEADERS_ON_COPY" target properties.
Modules:
The "ExternalData" module "ExternalData_Add_Target()" function gained a "SHOW_PROGRESS " option for controlling whether or not to show progress output during the build.
The "ExternalProject" module "ExternalProject_Add()" function gained a "CONFIGURE_HANDLED_BY_BUILD" option. This can be used to make subsequent runs of the configure step be triggered by the build step when an external project dependency rebuilds instead of always re- running the configure step in such cases.
The "FindBoost" module gained a "Boost_NO_WARN_NEW_VERSIONS" option to silence the warning about unknown dependencies for new Boost versions.
The "FindCUDAToolkit" module gained support for finding CUDA toolkits when "nvcc" is a symbolic link, for example due to a "ccache" or "colornvcc" wrapper script.
The "FindGDAL" module has been improved to document and mark as advanced its cache variables. There is a new "FindGDAL_SKIP_GDAL_CONFIG" variable which may be used to skip over the "gdal-config"-based search. Users may also set "GDAL_ADDITIONAL_LIBRARY_VERSIONS" to add additional versions to the library name search strategy.
The "FindIntl" module now provides an imported target.
The "FindOpenSSL" module learned to support a version range.
The "FindPython3", "FindPython2" and "FindPython" modules gained options controlling how unversioned interpreter names are searched.
The "UseJava" module "add_jar()" command’s "GENERATE_NATIVE_HEADERS" feature gained options to export the generated target.
The "UseSWIG" module gained the capability, for Makefile and Ninja generators, to use the "swig" tool to generate implicit dependencies.
Autogen:
The AUTOMOC feature now works with per-config sources.
CTest
"ctest(1)" gained a "--test-dir" option to specify the directory in which to look for tests.
CPack:
"CPack" gained the "CPACK_THREADS" variable to control the number of threads used for parallelized operations, such as compressing the installer package.
The "CPack DEB Generator" learned a new "CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_SHLIBDEPS_PRIVATE_DIRS" variable to specify additional search directories for resolving private library dependencies when using "dpkg-shlibdeps".
The "CPack IFW Generator" gained a new "CPACK_IFW_PACKAGE_WIZARD_SHOW_PAGE_LIST" variable to control visibility of the widget listing installer pages on the left side of the wizard. This feature available only since QtIFW 4.0.
The "CPack NSIS Generator" gained new "CPACK_NSIS_BRANDING_TEXT" and "CPACK_NSIS_BRANDING_TEXT_TRIM_POSITION" variables to change the text at the bottom of the install window and change its trim position
The "CPack NSIS Generator" now correctly handles Unicode characters. If you want to have a "CPACK_RESOURCE_FILE_LICENSE" with UTF-8 characters, it needs to be encoded in UTF-8 BOM.
The "CPack NuGet Generator" gained options:
"CPACK_NUGET_PACKAGE_ICON" and "CPACK_NUGET__PACKAGE_ICON" allow package icons to be specified by local files.
"CPACK_NUGET_PACKAGE_LICENSE_EXPRESSION" and "CPACK_NUGET__PACKAGE_LICENSE_EXPRESSION" add support for specifying licenses recognized by the Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX).
"CPACK_NUGET_PACKAGE_LICENSE_FILE_NAME" and "CPACK_NUGET__PACKAGE_LICENSE_FILE_NAME" allow licenses to be specified by local files.
"CPACK_NUGET_PACKAGE_LANGUAGE" and "CPACK_NUGET__PACKAGE_LANGUAGE" allow the locale for a package to be specified, for example "en_CA".
Deprecated and Removed Features:
The "cmake-server(7)" mode has been removed. Clients should use the "cmake-file-api(7)" instead.
The "WriteCompilerDetectionHeader" module has been deprecated via policy "CMP0120". Projects should be ported away from it.
The "TestBigEndian" module has been deprecated in favor of the "CMAKE__BYTE_ORDER" variable.
The "AddFileDependencies" module is deprecated. Port projects to use "set_property()" directly.
The "CPack NuGet Generator" deprecated some variables to reflect changes in the NuGet specification:
"CPACK_NUGET_PACKAGE_ICONURL" and "CPACK_NUGET__PACKAGE_ICONURL" have been deprecated; replace with a reference to a local icon file.
"CPACK_NUGET_PACKAGE_LICENSEURL" and
"CPACK_NUGET__PACKAGE_LICENSEURL" have been deprecated; replace with a reference to the project’s license file or SPDX license expression.
Other Changes:
Source file extensions must now be explicit. See policy "CMP0115" for details.
The "LANGUAGE" source file property now forces compilation as the specified language. See policy "CMP0119".
On AIX, installation of XCOFF executables and shared libraries no longer requires relinking to change the runtime search path from the build-tree RPATH to the install-tree RPATH. CMake now edits the XCOFF binaries directly during installation, as has long been done on ELF platforms.
With MSVC-like compilers the value of "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS" no longer contains the "/GR" flag for runtime type information by default. See policy "CMP0117".
Ninja generators now transform the "DEPFILE" generated by an "add_custom_command()". See policy "CMP0116" for details.
The precompiled Linux binaries provided on cmake.org have changed their naming pattern to "cmake-$ver-linux-$arch", where "$arch" is either "x86_64" or "aarch64".
The precompiled Windows binaries provided on cmake.org have changed their naming pattern to "cmake-$ver-windows-$arch", where "$arch" is either "x86_64" or "i386".

New in CMake 3.19.7 (Mar 16, 2021)

New in CMake 3.19.6 (Feb 25, 2021)

New in CMake 3.19.5 (Feb 16, 2021)

New in CMake 3.19.4 (Jan 31, 2021)

New in CMake 3.19.3 (Jan 14, 2021)

New in CMake 3.19.2 (Dec 18, 2020)

Adam Weisi (1):
Compiler/TI: Fix C standard flags in C-only project
Asit Dhal (1):
execute_process: Improve COMMAND_ERROR_IS_FATAL error capture scenarios
Ben Boeckel (3):
FindHDF5: improve error messages when a location variable isn't known
FindHDF5: support the hdf5hl_fortran-based variable names
FindPython2: avoid doubling the extension in CPython2 SOABI
Brad King (28):
Tests: Add CMake_TEST_Java option to control Java tests
Tests: Teach RunCMake to ignore Xcode install_name_tool signature warnings
gitlab-ci: update macOS jobs to use Xcode 12.2
Tests: Fix RunCMake.Check* conditions for enabling Fortran
Check*: Tolerate variables set with names of languages
Ninja: Clean metadata after regen during build on Windows with 1.10.2+
ci: update to use ninja 1.10.2
Tests: Look for Visual Studio only on Windows hosts
CMakeDetermineCompilerId: Filter IAR-AVR format INFO strings earlier
CMakeDetermineCompilerId: Add whitespace to clarify logic
CMakeDetermineCompilerId: Tolerate stray text around INFO strings
Revert "Intel: Add Intel Clang compiler identification"
Revert "Intel: Add Intel DPC++ compiler identification"
Tests: Add cache entry to control XCTest deployment target
Tests: Remove outdated exclusion of tests on OS X 10.3
ci: Hard-code XCTest deployment target to 10.15
Utilities/Release: Add script to build Qt 5.9.9 macOS universal binaries
ci: update to pre-built Qt 5.9.9 universal binaries for macOS packages
ci: do not use sccache for macOS packaging
ci: update macOS package to produce universal binaries
macOS: Offer control over host architecture on Apple Silicon hosts
Tests: Cover macOS host architecture selection on Apple Silicon hosts
cmake: Clear INSTALL file properties between runs
macOS: Add /opt/homebrew to CMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH on Apple Silicon
Ninja: Remove cleandead on regeneration
Utilities/Release: Update macOS Qt 5.9 build for platform versioning
cmake-gui: Restore completion during path editing
CMake 3.19.2
Craig Scott (4):
Help: xref variable that cmake_minimum_required() sets
Help: Mention how OPTIMIZE_DEPENDENCIES is initialized
Help: Re-sort indexes in the manuals
Help: Clarify scope details of deferred call ids for cmake_language()
Cristian Adam (1):
PCH: Fix compiler errors on iOS multi-arch using Ninja Multi-Config
Deniz Bahadir (1):
export: Do not fail generation for separate namelink only case
Justin LaPolla (1):
Cray: Fix Cray compiler detection on new platforms
Marc Chevrier (3):
FPHSA: ensure it can be used outside 'find_package'
Clang on Windows: 'LINKER:' prefix must be honored
CMakePackageConfigHelpers: Relax restrictions on version range
Raul Tambre (2):
CUDA: Fix user-set architectures during detection with Visual Studio
macOS: Add architecture flags only for native ASM dialect
Robert Maynard (7):
Modules: Rename Internal/CMake{CheckCompiler => TryCompilerOrLinker}Flag
ISPC: Ninja properly compute ISPC_HEADER_DIRECTORY location
ISPC: Handle OBJECT sources in different directories
Document CMP0112 covers $
ISPC: Treat system includes as '-I' includes
FindGLUT: Handle Mojave and Big Sur 'tbd' framework files
ISPC: Generated Headers suffix configurable with a better default
Sam Freed (1):
Help: Fix presets typo (longDescription to displayName)
Stephen Kelly (1):
QNX: Do not disable compiler extensions for CMake itself
Thomas Bernard (2):
llvm-rc: Force C language for the clang gnu frontend
llvm-rc: Add CMAKE_VFS_OVERLAY to the preprocessing flags

New in CMake 3.19.1 (Nov 25, 2020)

New in CMake 3.19.0 (Nov 20, 2020)

New Features:
Presets:
cmake(1) and cmake-gui(1) now recognize CMakePresets.json and CMakeUserPresets.json files (see cmake-presets(7)).
Generators:
The Xcode generator now uses the Xcode “new build system” when generating for Xcode 12.0 or higher. See the CMAKE_XCODE_BUILD_SYSTEM variable. One may use -T buildsystem=1 to switch to the legacy build system.
The Xcode generator gained support for linking libraries and frameworks via the Link Binaries With Libraries build phase instead of always by embedding linker flags directly. This behavior is controlled by a new XCODE_LINK_BUILD_PHASE_MODE target property, which is initialized by a new CMAKE_XCODE_LINK_BUILD_PHASE_MODE variable.
The Visual Studio Generators for VS 2015 and above gained support for the Visual Studio Tools for Android. One may now set CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME to Android to generate .vcxproj files for the Android tools.
Languages:
CMake learned to support ISPC as a first-class language that can be enabled via the project() and enable_language() commands. ISPC is currently supported by the Makefile Generators and the Ninja generator on Linux, macOS, and Windows using the Intel ISPC compiler.
CUDA language support for Clang now includes:
separable compilation (CUDA_SEPARABLE_COMPILATION), and
finding scattered toolkit installations when cross-compiling.
CUDA language support now works on QNX.
File-Based API:
The cmake-file-api(7) “codemodel” version 2 version field has been updated to 2.2.
The cmake-file-api(7) “codemodel” version 2 “target” object gained a new languageStandard field in the compileGroups objects.
Command-Line:
The cmake(1) command-line tool’s --install mode gained a --default-directory-permissions option.
cmake(1) gained a -E create_hardlink command-line tool that can be used to create hardlinks between files.
GUI:
The CMake GUI now has an environment variable editor.
Commands:
The add_test() command now (officially) supports whitespace and other special characters in the name for the test it creates. See policy CMP0110.
The cmake_language() command gained a DEFER mode to schedule command calls to occur at the end of processing a directory.
The configure_file() command gained a NO_SOURCE_PERMISSIONS option to suppress copying the input file’s permissions to the output file.
The execute_process() command gained a COMMAND_ERROR_IS_FATAL option to specify a fatal error.
The file(ARCHIVE_CREATE) command gained a COMPRESSION_LEVEL option to specify the compression level.
The file(CHMOD) and file(CHMOD_RECURSE) subcommands were added to set permissions of files and directories.
The file(DOWNLOAD) command argument is now optional. If it is not specified, the file is not saved.
The file(GENERATE) command gained a new TARGET keyword to support resolving target-dependent generator expressions.
The file() command gained a new REAL_PATH sub-command to compute a path with symlinks resolved.
The find_package() command learned to handle a version range.
The separate_arguments() command gained a new PROGRAM option. It allows the arguments to be treated as a program invocation and will resolve the executable to a full path if it can be found.
The DIRECTORY option of the set_property(), get_property(), and get_directory_property() commands now accepts references to binary directory paths, such as the value of CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR.
The string() command gained a set of new JSON sub commands that provide JSON parsing capabilities.
Variables:
The CMAKE_CLANG_VFS_OVERLAY variable was added to tell Clang to use a VFS overlay to support the Windows SDK when cross-compiling from hosts with case-sensitive filesystems.
The CMAKE_MFC_FLAG variable now supports generator expressions.
The CMAKE_OPTIMIZE_DEPENDENCIES variable was added to initialize the new OPTIMIZE_DEPENDENCIES target property and avoid unnecessarily building dependencies for a static library.
The CMAKE_PCH_INSTANTIATE_TEMPLATES variable was added to initialize the new PCH_INSTANTIATE_TEMPLATES target property.
The CMAKE_VS_WINDOWS_TARGET_PLATFORM_VERSION_MAXIMUM variable was added to tell the Visual Studio Generators what maximum version of the Windows SDK to choose.
Properties:
The EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL target property now supports generator expressions.
The OPTIMIZE_DEPENDENCIES target property was added to avoid unnecessarily building dependencies for a static library.
The PCH_INSTANTIATE_TEMPLATES target property was added to enable template instantiation in the precompiled header. This is enabled by default and may significantly improve compile times. Currently only supported for Clang (version 11 or later).
The WIN32_EXECUTABLE target property now supports generator expressions.
Modules:
The CheckCompilerFlag module has been added to generalize CheckCCompilerFlag and CheckCXXCompilerFlag to more languages. It also supports the CUDA and ISPC languages.
The CheckLinkerFlag module now supports the CUDA language.
The CheckSourceCompiles module has been added to generalize CheckCSourceCompiles and CheckCXXSourceCompiles to more languages. It also supports the CUDA and ISPC languages.
The CheckSourceRuns module has been added to generalize CheckCSourceRuns and CheckCXXSourceRuns to more languages. It also supports the CUDA language.
The CMakePackageConfigHelpers module gained support for version ranges.
The FindCUDAToolkit module gained support for finding CUDA toolkits that do not contain nvcc, as well as for finding scattered toolkit installations when cross-compiling.
The FindPackageHandleStandardArgs module learned to handle version ranges. It also gained the find_package_check_version() command to check the validity of a version against version-related arguments of find_package() command.
The FindPython3, FindPython2 and FindPython modules gained the ability to handle a version range.
The FindPython3, FindPython2 and FindPython modules provide, respectively, the variable Python3_LINK_OPTIONS, Python2_LINK_OPTIONS and Python_LINK_OPTIONS for link options.
The FindSDL module now provides:
An imported target SDL::SDL.
Result variables SDL_LIBRARIES and SDL_INCLUDE_DIRS.
Version variables SDL_VERSION, SDL_VERSION_MAJOR, SDL_VERSION_MINOR, and SDL_VERSION_PATCH.
The FindSWIG module gained the ability to handle a version range.
The FindTIFF module gained a CXX component to find the tiffxx library containing C++ bindings.
The FindVulkan module now provides a Vulkan::glslc imported target and associated Vulkan_GLSLC_EXECUTABLE variable which contain the path to the GLSL SPIR-V compiler.
The UseSWIG module gained support for new source file properties OUTPUT_DIR and OUTFILE_DIR to manage output directories on a per-source basis.
CTest:
ctest(1) now supports the CUDA compute-sanitizer checker (previously known as cuda-memcheck) as the CTEST_MEMORYCHECK_COMMAND. The different tools (memcheck, racecheck, synccheck and initcheck) supported by compute-sanitizer can be selected by adding appropriate flags to the CTEST_MEMORYCHECK_COMMAND_OPTIONS variable. The default flags are --tool memcheck --leak-check full.
CPack:
CPack gained the CPACK_PRE_BUILD_SCRIPTS, CPACK_POST_BUILD_SCRIPTS, and CPACK_PACKAGE_FILES variables.
The CPack External Generator gained the CPACK_EXTERNAL_BUILT_PACKAGES variable.
The CPack WIX Generator gained a CPACK_WIX_CUSTOM_XMLNS option to specify custom XML namespaces.
Other:
Interface Libraries may now have source files added via add_library() or target_sources(). Those with sources will be generated as part of the build system.
Deprecated and Removed Features:
Compatibility with versions of CMake older than 2.8.12 is now deprecated and will be removed from a future version. Calls to cmake_minimum_required() or cmake_policy() that set the policy version to an older value now issue a deprecation diagnostic.
An explicit deprecation diagnostic was added for policy CMP0071 (CMP0071 and below were already deprecated). The cmake-policies(7) manual explains that the OLD behaviors of all policies are deprecated and that projects should port to the NEW behaviors.
macOS SDKs older than 10.5 are no longer supported.
cmake-gui(1) now requires Qt5. Support for compiling with Qt4 has been removed.
The cmake(1) command-line option --warn-unused-vars has been removed and is now silently ignored. The option has not worked correctly since CMake 3.3.
Documentation:
The following guides have been added:
IDE Integration Guide
Importing and Exporting Guide
Other Changes:
Building for macOS will now use the latest SDK available on the system, unless the user has explicitly chosen a SDK using CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT. The deployment target or system macOS version will not affect the choice of SDK.
The CMAKE__COMPILER variable may now be used to store “mandatory” compiler flags like the CC and other environment variables.
The CMAKE__FLAGS_INIT variable will now be considered during the compiler identification check if other sources like CMAKE__FLAGS or CFLAGS are not set.
The find_program() command now requires permission to execute but not to read the file found. See policy CMP0109.
An imported target missing its location property fails during generation if the location is used. See policy CMP0111.
The following target-based generator expressions that query for directory or file name components no longer add a dependency on the evaluated target. See policy CMP0112.
TARGET_FILE_DIR
TARGET_LINKER_FILE_BASE_NAME
TARGET_LINKER_FILE_NAME
TARGET_LINKER_FILE_DIR
TARGET_SONAME_FILE_NAME
TARGET_SONAME_FILE_DIR
TARGET_PDB_FILE_NAME
TARGET_PDB_FILE_DIR
TARGET_BUNDLE_DIR
TARGET_BUNDLE_CONTENT_DIR
Makefile Generators no longer repeat custom commands from target dependencies. See policy CMP0113.
The ExternalProject module handling of step target dependencies has been revised. See policy CMP0114.
The OSX_ARCHITECTURES target property is now respected for the ASM language.
If CUDA compiler detection fails with user-specified CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES or CMAKE_CUDA_HOST_COMPILER, an error is raised.

New in CMake 3.19.0 RC 1 (Oct 14, 2020)

New Features:
Presets:
cmake(1) and cmake-gui(1) now recognize CMakePresets.json and CMakeUserPresets.json files.
Generators:
The Xcode generator now uses the Xcode “new build system” when generating for Xcode 12.0 or higher. See the CMAKE_XCODE_BUILD_SYSTEM variable. One may use -T buildsystem=1 to switch to the legacy build system.
The Xcode generator gained support for linking libraries and frameworks via the Link Binaries With Libraries build phase instead of always by embedding linker flags directly. This behavior is controlled by a new XCODE_LINK_BUILD_PHASE_MODE target property, which is initialized by a new CMAKE_XCODE_LINK_BUILD_PHASE_MODE variable.
The Visual Studio Generators for VS 2015 and above gained support for the Visual Studio Tools for Android. One may now set CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME to Android to generate .vcxproj files for the Android tools.
Languages:
CMake learned to support ISPC as a first-class language that can be enabled via the project() and enable_language() commands. ISPC is currently supported by the Makefile Generators and the Ninja generator on Linux, macOS, and Windows using the Intel ISPC compiler.
CUDA language support for Clang now includes:
separable compilation (CUDA_SEPARABLE_COMPILATION), and
finding scattered toolkit installations when cross-compiling.
File-Based API:
The cmake-file-api(7) “codemodel” version 2 version field has been updated to 2.2.
The cmake-file-api(7) “codemodel” version 2 “target” object gained a new languageStandard field in the compileGroups objects.
Command-Line:
The cmake(1) command-line tool’s --install mode gained a --default-directory-permissions option.
cmake(1) gained a -E create_hardlink command-line tool that can be used to create hardlinks between files.
GUI:
The CMake GUI now has an environment variable editor.
Commands:
The add_test() command now (officially) supports whitespace and other special characters in the name for the test it creates. See policy CMP0110.
The cmake_language() command gained a DEFER mode to schedule command calls to occur at the end of processing a directory.
The cmake_path() command was added for operations on filesystem paths.
The configure_file() command gained a NO_SOURCE_PERMISSIONS option to suppress copying the input file’s permissions to the output file.
The execute_process() command gained a COMMAND_ERROR_IS_FATAL option to specify a fatal error.
The file(ARCHIVE_CREATE) command gained a COMPRESSION_LEVEL option to specify the compression level.
The file(CHMOD) and file(CHMOD_RECURSE) subcommands were added to set permissions of files and directories.
The file(DOWNLOAD) command argument is now optional. If it is not specified, the file is not saved.
The file(GENERATE) command gained a new TARGET keyword to support resolving target-dependent generator expressions.
The file() gained sub-command REAL_PATH to compute a path with symlinks resolved.
The find_package() command learned to handle a version range.
The separate_arguments() command gained new PROGRAM option to search program.
The set_property(), get_property(), and get_directory_property() commands’ DIRECTORY options now accept references to binary directory paths, such as the value of CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR.
The string() command gained set of new JSON sub commands to provide JSON parsing capabilities.
Variables:
The CMAKE_CLANG_VFS_OVERLAY variable was added to tell Clang to use a VFS overlay to support the Windows SDK when cross-compiling from hosts with case-sensitive filesystems.
The CMAKE_MFC_FLAG variable now supports generator expressions.
The CMAKE_OPTIMIZE_DEPENDENCIES variable was added to initialize the new OPTIMIZE_DEPENDENCIES target property and avoid unnecessarily building dependencies for a static library.
The CMAKE_VS_WINDOWS_TARGET_PLATFORM_VERSION_MAXIMUM variable was added to tell the Visual Studio Generators what maximum version of the Windows SDK to choose.
Properties:
The EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL target property now supports generator expressions.
The OPTIMIZE_DEPENDENCIES target property was added to avoid unnecessarily building dependencies for a static library.
The PCH_INSTANTIATE_TEMPLATES target property was added to enable template instantiation in the precompiled header. This is enabled by default and offers a roughly 20% compile time improvement. Currently only supported by Clang 11.
The WIN32_EXECUTABLE target property now supports generator expressions.
Modules:
The CheckCompilerFlag module has been added to generalize CheckCCompilerFlag and CheckCXXCompilerFlag to more languages. It also supports the CUDA and ISPC languages.
The CheckLinkerFlag module now supports the CUDA language.
The CheckSourceCompiles module has been added to generalize CheckCSourceCompiles and CheckCXXSourceCompiles to more languages. It also supports the CUDA and ISPC languages.
The CheckSourceRuns module has been added to generalize CheckCSourceRuns and CheckCXXSourceRuns to more languages. It also supports the CUDA language.
CMakePackageConfigHelpers module learned to manage version range.
The FindCUDAToolkit module gained support for finding CUDA toolkits that do not contain nvcc, as well as for finding scattered toolkit installations when cross-compiling.
The FindPackageHandleStandardArgs module learned to handle version range. It also gained the find_package_check_version() command to check the validity of a version against version-related arguments of find_package() command.
The FindPython3, FindPython2 and FindPython modules gained the capability to manage a version range.
The FindPython3, FindPython2 and FindPython modules provide, respectively, the variable Python3_LINK_OPTIONS, Python2_LINK_OPTIONS and Python_LINK_OPTIONS for link options.
The FindSDL module now provides:
imported target SDL::SDL,
result variables SDL_LIBRARIES and SDL_INCLUDE_DIRS,
version variables SDL_VERSION, SDL_VERSION_MAJOR SDL_VERSION_MINOR, and SDL_VERSION_PATCH.
FindSWIG module gains the capability to manage a version range.
The FindTIFF module gained a CXX component to find the tiffxx library containing C++ bindings.
The FindVulkan module now provides a Vulkan::glslc imported target and associated Vulkan_GLSLC_EXECUTABLE variable which contain the path to the GLSL SPIR-V compiler.
UseSWIG module gains new source file properties OUTPUT_DIR and OUTFILE_DIR to manage output directories on per source basis.
CTest:
ctest(1) now supports compute-sanitizer (cuda-memcheck) as CTEST_MEMORYCHECK_COMMAND. The different tools (memcheck, racecheck, synccheck, initcheck) supplied by compute-sanitizer can be selected by adding appropriate flags to the CTEST_MEMORYCHECK_COMMAND_OPTIONS variable. The default flags are --tool memcheck --leak-check full.
CPack:
CPack gained the CPACK_PRE_BUILD_SCRIPTS, CPACK_POST_BUILD_SCRIPTS, and CPACK_PACKAGE_FILES variables.
The CPack External Generator gained the CPACK_EXTERNAL_BUILT_PACKAGES variable.
The CPack WIX Generator gained a CPACK_WIX_CUSTOM_XMLNS option to specify custom XML namespaces.
Other:
Interface Libraries may now have source files added via add_library() or target_sources(). Those with sources will be generated as part of the build system.
Deprecated and Removed Features:
Compatibility with versions of CMake older than 2.8.12 is now deprecated and will be removed from a future version. Calls to cmake_minimum_required() or cmake_policy() that set the policy version to an older value now issue a deprecation diagnostic.
An explicit deprecation diagnostic was added for policy CMP0071 (CMP0071 and below were already deprecated). The cmake-policies(7) manual explains that the OLD behaviors of all policies are deprecated and that projects should port to the NEW behaviors.
macOS SDKs older than 10.5 are no longer supported.
cmake-gui(1) now requires Qt5. Support for compiling with Qt4 has been removed.
The cmake(1) command-line option --warn-unused-vars has been removed and is now silently ignored. The option has not worked correctly since CMake 3.3.
Documentation:
The following guides have been added:
IDE Integration Guide
Importing and Exporting Guide
Other Changes:
Building for macOS will now use the latest SDK available on the system, unless the user has explicitly chosen a SDK using CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT. The deployment target or system macOS version will not affect the choice of SDK.
The CMAKE__COMPILER variable may now be used to store “mandatory” compiler flags like the CC and other environment variables.
The CMAKE__FLAGS_INIT variable will now be considered during the compiler identification check if other sources like CMAKE__FLAGS or CFLAGS are not set.
The find_program() command now requires permission to execute but not to read the file found. See policy CMP0109.
An imported target with a missing location now fails during generation if the location is used. See policy CMP0111.
The following target-based generator expressions that query for directory or file name components no longer add a dependency on the evaluated target. See policy CMP0112.
TARGET_FILE_DIR
TARGET_LINKER_FILE_BASE_NAME
TARGET_LINKER_FILE_NAME
TARGET_LINKER_FILE_DIR
TARGET_SONAME_FILE_NAME
TARGET_SONAME_FILE_DIR
TARGET_PDB_FILE_NAME
TARGET_PDB_FILE_DIR
TARGET_BUNDLE_DIR
TARGET_BUNDLE_CONTENT_DIR
Makefile Generators no longer repeat custom commands from target dependencies. See policy CMP0113.
The ExternalProject module handling of step target dependencies has been revised. See policy CMP0114.
The OSX_ARCHITECTURES target property is now respected for the ASM language.
If CUDA compiler detection fails with user-specified CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES or CMAKE_CUDA_HOST_COMPILER, an error is raised.

New in CMake 3.18.4 (Oct 7, 2020)

New in CMake 3.18.3 (Sep 23, 2020)

New in CMake 3.18.2 (Aug 21, 2020)

New in CMake 3.18.1 (Jul 31, 2020)

New in CMake 3.17.3 (May 28, 2020)

New in CMake 3.17.2 (Apr 29, 2020)

New in CMake 3.17.0 (Apr 8, 2020)

New Features:
Generators:
cmake(1) gained a Ninja Multi-Config generator, which is similar to the Ninja generator but can be used to build multiple configurations at once.
Visual Studio Generators learned to support per-config sources. Previously only Command-Line Build Tool Generators supported them.
Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above now support specifying the VCTargetsPath value for project files in CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET setting.
Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above learned to support .NET Standard and .NET Core. See the DOTNET_TARGET_FRAMEWORK target property and associated CMAKE_DOTNET_TARGET_FRAMEWORK variable.
Languages:
The Compile Features functionality now offers meta-features for the CUDA language standard levels (e.g. cuda_std_03, cuda_std_14). See CMAKE_CUDA_KNOWN_FEATURES.
Compilers:
The IBM XL Fortran compiler is now supported by the Ninja generator.
Command-Line:
cmake(1) gained a --debug-find command-line option to enable additional human-readable output on where find_* commands search.
cmake(1) gained a --trace-format command-line option that can be used to set the --trace output format. Currently, the old human readable and the new JSON format are supported. The new JSON format is easier to parse automatically than the existing format.
cmake(1) gained a -E rm command-line tool that can be used to remove directories and files. This supersedes the existing -E remove and -E remove_directory tools and has better semantics.
Commands:
The add_custom_command() command learned to interpret paths in DEPENDS arguments that are specified relative to the current binary directory.
The foreach() command learned a new ZIP_LISTS option to iterate over multiple lists simultaneously.
The load_cache(READ_WITH_PREFIX) command mode is now allowed when using cmake -P to Run a Script.
The message() command learned to output context provided in the CMAKE_MESSAGE_CONTEXT variable for log levels NOTICE and below. Enable this output with the new --log-context command-line option or CMAKE_MESSAGE_CONTEXT_SHOW variable.
The message() command gained new keywords CHECK_START, CHECK_PASS and CHECK_FAIL.
The target_compile_options() command now honors the BEFORE keyword more consistently. See policy CMP0101.
Variables:
A CMAKE_CTEST_ARGUMENTS variable was added to specify a list of command-line arguments passed to CTest when running through the test (or RUN_TESTS) target of the generated build system.
The following variables are now defined inside a function()
CMAKE_CURRENT_FUNCTION
CMAKE_CURRENT_FUNCTION_LIST_DIR
CMAKE_CURRENT_FUNCTION_LIST_FILE
CMAKE_CURRENT_FUNCTION_LIST_LINE
The CMAKE_CUDA_RUNTIME_LIBRARY variable and CUDA_RUNTIME_LIBRARY target property were introduced to select the CUDA runtime library used when linking targets that use CUDA.
The CMAKE_FIND_DEBUG_MODE variable was introduced to print extra find_* call information during the cmake run to standard error. Output is designed for human consumption and not for parsing.
The CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS variable now takes its initial value from the CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS environment variable if no explicit configuration is given.
The CMAKE__COMPILER_LAUNCHER variable, if not set explicitly, now takes its initial value from the CMAKE__COMPILER_LAUNCHER environment variable.
The CMAKE_MESSAGE_LOG_LEVEL variable can now be used to persist a log level between CMake runs, unlike the --log-level command line option which only applies to that particular run.
The CMAKE_XCODE_SCHEME_ENVIRONMENT variable was added to initialize the XCODE_SCHEME_ENVIRONMENT target property.
The CMAKE_XCODE_SCHEME_WORKING_DIRECTORY variable and associated XCODE_SCHEME_WORKING_DIRECTORY target property were added to tell the Xcode generator to set the value of the Custom Working Directory schema option.
Properties:
The AIX_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS target property and associated CMAKE_AIX_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS variable were created to optionally explicitly disable automatic export of symbols from shared libraries on AIX.
The DEPRECATION target property was added to mark a target as deprecated. If a linked target is marked as deprecated, a warning with the deprecation message is issued at generate time.
The INSTALL_NAME_DIR target property now supports generator expressions. In particular, the $ generator expression can be used to set the directory relative to the install-time prefix.
Target properties MACHO_COMPATIBILITY_VERSION and MACHO_CURRENT_VERSION were added to set the compatibility_version and curent_version, respectively, for Mach-O binaries. For backwards compatibility, if these properties are not set, SOVERSION and VERSION are used respectively as fallbacks.
The VS_DOTNET_DOCUMENTATION_FILE target property was added to tell Visual Studio Generators to generate a DocumentationFile reference in .csproj files.
Modules:
The ExternalProject module ExternalProject_Add() command gained a GIT_SUBMODULES_RECURSE option to specify whether Git submodules should be updated recursively. The default is on to preserve existing behavior.
The FindCUDAToolkit module was added to find the CUDA Toolkit without enabling CUDA as a language.
The FindCURL module learned to find CURL using the CURLConfig.cmake package configuration file generated by CURL’s cmake buildsystem. It also gained a new CURL_NO_CURL_CMAKE option to disable this behavior.
The FindFLEX module’s FLEX_TARGET command now runs flex with CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR as the working directory. See policy CMP0098.
The FindLibArchive module now provides an imported target for libarchive.
The FindPython module has learned to find Python components in active virtual environments managed by conda.
The FindPython3 and FindPython modules gained, respectively, variable Python3_SOABI and Python_SOABI giving the standard extension suffix for modules. Moreover, commands Python3_add_library() and Python_add_library() gained the option WITH_SOABI to prefix the library suffix with the value of SOABI.
The FindLibXml2 module now provides an imported target for the xmllint executable.
Autogen:
AUTOMOC and AUTOUIC learned to process headers with a .hh extension. See policy CMP0100.
CTest:
The CTEST_CONFIGURATION_TYPE variable is now set from the command line when ctest(1) is invoked with -C .
The ctest(1) tool gained support for Dr. Memory to run memcheck runs.
The ctest(1) tool gained a --no-tests= option to explicitly set and unify the behavior between direct invocation and script mode if no tests were found.
The ctest(1) tool gained a --repeat : option to specify conditions in which to repeat tests. This generalizes the existing --repeat-until-fail option to add modes for until-pass and after-timeout.
The ctest_test() command gained a REPEAT : option to specify conditions in which to repeat tests.
CPack:
The CPack DragNDrop Generator learned to use the CPACK_DMG__FILE_NAME variable to set a custom filename when packaging components into their own DMGs.
The CPack DragNDrop Generator learned to handle RTF formatted license files. When CPACK_DMG_SLA_DIR variable is set, .license.rtf is considered, but only as a fallback when the plaintext (.txt) file is not found in order to maintain backwards compatibility.
The CPack NSIS Generator gained a new variable CPACK_NSIS_MUI_HEADERIMAGE to set the header image. To not break existing setups, it still defaults to CPACK_PACKAGE_ICON if the new variable is not set.
The CPack NSIS Generator now supports CPACK_NSIS_UNINSTALL_NAME. This can be used to specify the name of the Uninstall program.
The CPack NSIS Generator now supports CPACK_NSIS_WELCOME_TITLE and CPACK_NSIS_WELCOME_TITLE_3LINES. These can be used to specify the welcome page title and display it in 3 lines.
The CPack NSIS Generator now supports CPACK_NSIS_FINISH_TITLE and CPACK_NSIS_FINISH_TITLE_3LINES. These can be used to specify the finish page title and display it in 3 lines.
The CPack productbuild Generator gained support for a CPACK_PRODUCTBUILD_BACKGROUND variable to specify a background image for the macOS installer.
Other:
ccmake(1) now displays cache values using colors based on the entry type if the terminal supports color.
ccmake(1) now displays messages and a progress bar during configure and generate. It will keep the output displayed if any errors or warnings occurred.
Deprecated and Removed Features:
An explicit deprecation diagnostic was added for policy CMP0068 and policy CMP0069 (CMP0067 and below were already deprecated). The cmake-policies(7) manual explains that the OLD behaviors of all policies are deprecated and that projects should port to the NEW behaviors.
The CPack PackageMaker Generator generator has been deprecated because Xcode no longer distributes the PackageMaker tools. The undocumented OSXX11 generator has also been deprecated.
The cmake(1) command-line -E remove and -E remove_directory tools are deprecated in favor of the new -E rm tool. The older tools always returned 0 if a named path did not exist even without the force option and cannot be fixed without breaking compatibility, and so have been superseded.
Other Changes:
The file API index file now emits a multiConfig flag specifying whether or not the generator supports multiple output configurations.
Target link properties INTERFACE_LINK_OPTIONS, INTERFACE_LINK_DIRECTORIES and INTERFACE_LINK_DEPENDS are now transitive over private dependencies on static libraries. See policy CMP0099.
When using MinGW tools, the find_library() command no longer finds .dll files by default. Instead, it expects .dll.a import libraries to be available.
The MinGW Makefiles generator no longer issues an error if sh.exe is present in the environment’s PATH.
The Ninja generator now prefers the first ninja build tool to appear in the PATH no matter whether it is called ninja-build, ninja, or samu. Previously the first of those names to appear anywhere in the PATH would be preferred.
With SDCC the sdar tool is now preferred over sdcclib as librarian. The latter was deprecated by SDCC 3.2.0 and removed in SDCC 3.8.6.
With SDCC the default flags no longer include any target-specific flags. Previously the default flags were hard-coded for 8051.
The CMAKE_VS_GLOBALS variable value now applies during compiler identification and in targets created by the add_custom_target() command.
The Xcode generator no longer hard-codes -Wmost, -Wno-four-char-constants, and -Wno-unknown-pragmas warning flags.

New in CMake 3.16.5 (Mar 5, 2020)

New in CMake 3.16.4 (Feb 6, 2020)

New in CMake 3.16.3 (Jan 22, 2020)

New in CMake 3.16.2 (Dec 20, 2019)

New in CMake 3.16.1 (Dec 11, 2019)

New in CMake 3.16.0 (Nov 26, 2019)

New Features:
Languages:
CMake learned to support the Objective C (OBJC) and Objective C++ (OBJCXX) languages. They may be enabled via the project() and enable_language() commands. When OBJC or OBJCXX is enabled, source files with the .m or .mm, respectively, will be compiled as Objective C or C++. Otherwise they will be treated as plain C++ sources as they were before.
Compilers:
The Clang compiler is now supported on Solaris.
Platforms:
On AIX, executables using the ENABLE_EXPORTS target property now produce a linker import file with a .imp extension in addition to the executable file. Plugins (created via add_library() with the MODULE option) that use target_link_libraries() to link to the executable for its symbols are now linked using the import file. The install(TARGETS) command now installs the import file as an ARCHIVE artifact.
On AIX, runtime linking is no longer enabled by default. CMake provides the linker enough information to resolve all symbols up front. One may manually enable runtime linking for shared libraries and/or loadable modules by adding -Wl,-G to their link flags (e.g. in the CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS or CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS variable). One may manually enable runtime linking for executables by adding -Wl,-brtl to their link flags (e.g. in the CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS variable).
Command-Line:
cmake(1) -E now supports true and false commands, which do nothing while returning exit codes of 0 and 1, respectively.
cmake(1) gained a --trace-redirect= command line option that can be used to redirect --trace output to a file instead of stderr.
The cmake(1) --loglevel command line option has been renamed to --log-level to make it consistent with the naming of other command line options. The --loglevel option is still supported to preserve backward compatibility.
Commands:
The add_test() command learned the option COMMAND_EXPAND_LISTS which causes lists in the COMMAND argument to be expanded, including lists created by generator expressions.
The file() command learned a new sub-command, GET_RUNTIME_DEPENDENCIES, which allows you to recursively get the list of libraries linked by an executable or library. This sub-command is intended as a replacement for GetPrerequisites.
The find_file(), find_library(), find_path(), find_package(), and find_program() commands have learned to check the following variables to control the default behavior for groups of search locations:
CMAKE_FIND_USE_PACKAGE_ROOT_PATH - Controls the default behavior of searching the _ROOT variables.
CMAKE_FIND_USE_CMAKE_ENVIRONMENT_PATH - Controls the default behavior of searching the CMake-specific environment variables.
CMAKE_FIND_USE_SYSTEM_ENVIRONMENT_PATH - Controls the default behavior of searching the standard system environment variables.
CMAKE_FIND_USE_CMAKE_PATH - Controls the default behavior of searching the CMake-specific cache variables.
CMAKE_FIND_USE_CMAKE_SYSTEM_PATH - Controls the default behavior of searching the platform-specific CMake variables.
The find_package() command has learned to check the CMAKE_FIND_USE_PACKAGE_REGISTRY variable to control the default behavior of searching the CMake user package registry and to check the CMAKE_FIND_USE_SYSTEM_PACKAGE_REGISTRY variable to control the default behavior of searching the CMake system package registry.
The message() command learned indentation control with the new CMAKE_MESSAGE_INDENT variable.
The target_precompile_headers() command was added to specify a list of headers to precompile for faster compilation times.
Variables:
The CMAKE_CUDA_RESOLVE_DEVICE_SYMBOLS variable has been introduced to optionally initialize the CUDA_RESOLVE_DEVICE_SYMBOLS target property.
The CMAKE_ECLIPSE_RESOURCE_ENCODING variable was added to specify the resource encoding for the the Eclipse CDT4 extra generator.
The CMAKE_UNITY_BUILD variable was added to initialize the UNITY_BUILD target property to tell generators to batch include source files for faster compilation times.
Properties:
The BUILD_RPATH and INSTALL_RPATH target properties now support generator expressions.
The INSTALL_REMOVE_ENVIRONMENT_RPATH target property was added to remove compiler-defined RPATH entries from a target. This property is initialized by the CMAKE_INSTALL_REMOVE_ENVIRONMENT_RPATH variable.
The PRECOMPILE_HEADERS target property was added to specify a list of headers to precompile for faster compilation times. Set it using the target_precompile_headers() command.
The UNITY_BUILD target property was added to tell generators to batch include source files for faster compilation times.
The VS_CONFIGURATION_TYPE target property now supports generator expressions.
The VS_DPI_AWARE target property was added to tell Visual Studio Generators to set the EnableDpiAwareness property in .vcxproj files.
The XCODE_SCHEME_DEBUG_DOCUMENT_VERSIONING target property was added to tell the Xcode generator to set the value of the Allow debugging when using document Versions Browser schema option.
Modules:
The FindDoxygen module doxygen_add_docs() command gained a new USE_STAMP_FILE option. When this option present, the custom target created by the command will only re-run Doxygen if any of the source files have changed since the last successful run.
The FindGnuTLS module now provides an imported target.
The FindPackageHandleStandardArgs module find_package_handle_standard_args() command gained a new REASON_FAILURE_MESSAGE option to specify a message giving the reason for the failure.
The FindPkgConfig module pkg_search_module() macro now defines a _MODULE_NAME result variable containing the first matching module name.
The FindPython3 and FindPython modules gained options to control which ABIs will be searched.
The FindPython3, FindPython2, and FindPython modules now support direct specification of artifacts via cache entries.
Autogen:
When using AUTOMOC, CMake now generates the -p path prefix option for moc. This ensures that moc output files are identical on different build setups (given, that the headers compiled by moc are in an include directory). Also it ensures that moc output files will compile correctly when the source and/or build directory is a symbolic link.
The moc path prefix generation behavior can be configured by setting the new CMAKE_AUTOMOC_PATH_PREFIX variable and/or AUTOMOC_PATH_PREFIX target property.
CTest:
ctest(1) now has the ability to schedule tests based on resource requirements for each test. See Resource Allocation for details.
A new test property, SKIP_REGULAR_EXPRESSION, has been added. This property is similar to FAIL_REGULAR_EXPRESSION and PASS_REGULAR_EXPRESSION, but with the same meaning as SKIP_RETURN_CODE. This is useful, for example, in cases where the user has no control over the return code of the test. For example, in Catch2, the return value is the number of assertion failed, therefore it is impossible to use it for SKIP_RETURN_CODE.
CPack:
cpack(1) learned support for multiple configurations for -C option.
The CPack DEB Generator is now able to format generic text (usually used as the description for multiple CPack generators) according to the Debian Policy Manual. See the CPACK_PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION_FILE and CPACK_DEBIAN__DESCRIPTION variables.
The CPack Archive Generator learned to generate .tar.zst packages with Zstandard compression.
Deprecated and Removed Features:
An explicit deprecation diagnostic was added for policy CMP0067 (CMP0066 and below were already deprecated). The cmake-policies(7) manual explains that the OLD behaviors of all policies are deprecated and that projects should port to the NEW behaviors.
The CMAKE_FIND_PACKAGE_NO_PACKAGE_REGISTRY variable has been deprecated. Use the CMAKE_FIND_USE_PACKAGE_REGISTRY variable instead.
The GetPrerequisites module has been deprecated, as it has been superceded by file(GET_RUNTIME_DEPENDENCIES).
The CPACK_INSTALL_SCRIPT variable has been deprecated in favor of the new, more accurately named CPACK_INSTALL_SCRIPTS variable.
Other Changes:
The cmake(1) -C option now evaluates the initial cache script with CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR and CMAKE_BINARY_DIR set to the top-level source and build trees.
The cmake(1) -E remove_directory command-line tool, when given the path to a symlink to a directory, now removes just the symlink. It no longer removes content of the linked directory.
The ctest(1) --build-makeprogram command-line option now specifies the make program used when configuring a project with the Ninja generator or the Makefile Generators.
The ExternalProject module ExternalProject_Add() command has been updated so that GIT_SUBMODULES "" initializes no submodules. See policy CMP0097.
The FindGTest module has been updated to recognize MSVC build trees generated by GTest 1.8.1.
The project() command no longer strips leading zeros in version components. See policy CMP0096.
The Qt Compressed Help file is now named CMake.qch, which no longer contains the release version in the file name. When CMake is upgraded in-place, the name and location of this file will remain constant. Tools such as IDEs, help viewers, etc. should now be able to refer to this file at a fixed location that remains valid across CMake upgrades.
RPATH entries are properly escaped in the generated CMake scripts used for installation. See policy CMP0095.
When using CMAKE_WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS on Windows the auto-generated exports are now updated only when the object files providing the symbols are updated.

New in CMake 3.15.5 (Oct 31, 2019)

New in CMake 3.15.4 (Oct 3, 2019)

New in CMake 3.15.3 (Sep 5, 2019)

New in CMake 3.15.1 (Aug 8, 2019)

New in CMake 3.15.0 (Jul 18, 2019)

New Features:
Generators:
The "Xcode" generator now supports per-target schemes. See the "CMAKE_XCODE_GENERATE_SCHEME" variable and "XCODE_GENERATE_SCHEME" target property.
The "Green Hills MULTI" generator has been updated:
It now supports the "add_custom_command()" and "add_custom_target()" commands.
It is now available on Linux.
Languages:
Preliminary support for the "Swift" language was added to the "Ninja" generator:
Use the "SWIFTC" environment variable to specify a compiler.
The "Swift_DEPENDENCIES_FILE" target property and "Swift_DEPENDENCIES_FILE" source file property were added to customize dependency files.
The "Swift_MODULE_NAME" target property was added to customize the Swift module name.
The "Swift_DIAGNOSTICS_FILE" source property was added to indicate where to write the serialised Swift diagnostics.
The Swift support is experimental, not considered stable, and may change in future releases of CMake.
Compilers:
The "Clang" compiler variant on Windows that targets the MSVC ABI but has a GNU-like command line is now supported.
Support for the Clang-based ARM compiler was added with compiler id "ARMClang".
Support was added for the IAR compiler architectures Renesas RX, RL78, RH850 and Texas Instruments MSP430.
Support was added for the IAR compilers built for Linux (IAR BuildLx).
Command-Line:
The "CMAKE_GENERATOR" environment variable was added to specify a default generator to use when "cmake(1)" is run without a "-G" option. Additionally, environment variables "CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM", "CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET", and "CMAKE_GENERATOR_INSTANCE" were created to configure the generator.
The "cmake(1)" "--build" tool "--target" parameter gained support for multiple targets, e.g. "cmake --build . --target Library1 Library2". It now also has a short form "-t" alias, e.g. "cmake --build . -t Library1 Library2".
The "cmake(1)" command gained a new "--install" option. This may be used after building a project to run installation without using the generated build system or the native build tool.
The "cmake(1)" command learned a new CLI option "--loglevel".
The "cmake(1)" "-E remove_directory" command-line tool learned to support removing multiple directories.
The "cmake(1)" "-E tar" tool has been improved:
It now continues adding files to an archive even if some of the files are not readable. This behavior is more consistent with the classic "tar" tool.
It now parses all flags, and if an invalid flag was provided, a warning is issued.
It now displays an error if no action flag was specified, along with a list of possible actions: "t" (list), "c" (create) or "x" (extract).
It now supports extracting ("-x") or listing ("-t") only specific files or directories.
It now supports Zstandard compression with a "--zstd" option. Zstandard was designed to give a compression ratio comparable to that of the DEFLATE (zip) algorithm, but faster, especially for decompression.
Commands:
The "add_custom_command()" and "add_custom_target()" commands gained a new "JOB_POOL" option that works with the "Ninja" generator to set the pool variable on the build statement.
The "add_library()" command "ALIAS" option learned to support import libraries of the "UNKNOWN" type.
The "cmake_parse_arguments()" command gained an additional "_KEYWORDS_MISSING_VALUES" output variable to report keyword arguments that were given by the caller with no values.
The "execute_process()" command gained a "COMMAND_ECHO" option and supporting "CMAKE_EXECUTE_PROCESS_COMMAND_ECHO" variable to enable echoing of the command-line string before execution.
The "file(INSTALL)" command learned a new argument, "FOLLOW_SYMLINK_CHAIN", which can be used to recursively resolve and install symlinks.
"list()" learned new sub-commands: "PREPEND", "POP_FRONT" and "POP_BACK".
The "message()" command learned new types: "NOTICE", "VERBOSE", "DEBUG" and "TRACE".
The "string()" learned a new sub-command "REPEAT".
Variables:
The "CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING_EMULATOR" variable and corresponding "CROSSCOMPILING_EMULATOR" target property learned to support arguments to the emulator.
The "CMAKE_FIND_PACKAGE_PREFER_CONFIG" variable was added to tell "find_package()" calls to look for a package configuration file first even if a find module is available.
The "CMAKE_FRAMEWORK" variable was added to initialize the "FRAMEWORK" property on all targets.
The "CMAKE_VS_JUST_MY_CODE_DEBUGGING" variable and "VS_JUST_MY_CODE_DEBUGGING" target property were added to enable the Just My Code feature of the Visual Studio Debugger when compiling with MSVC cl 19.05 and higher.
The "CMAKE_MSVC_RUNTIME_LIBRARY" variable and "MSVC_RUNTIME_LIBRARY" target property were introduced to select the runtime library used by compilers targeting the MSVC ABI. See policy "CMP0091".
The "CMAKE_PROJECT_INCLUDE" and "CMAKE_PROJECT_INCLUDE_BEFORE" variables were added to allow injection of custom code at the sites of "project()" calls without knowing the project name a priori.
Properties:
The "ADDITIONAL_CLEAN_FILES" target property and "ADDITIONAL_CLEAN_FILES" directory property were added. They allow to register additional files that should be removed during the clean stage.
The "PUBLIC_HEADER" and "PRIVATE_HEADER" properties may now be set on Interface Libraries. The headers specified by those properties can be installed using the "install(TARGETS)" command by passing the "PUBLIC_HEADER" and "PRIVATE_HEADER" arguments respectively.
The "VS_PACKAGE_REFERENCES" target property was added to tell Visual Studio Generators to add references to "nuget" packages.
The "VS_PROJECT_IMPORT" target property was added to allow managed Visual Studio project files to import external ".props" files.
The "VS_NO_SOLUTION_DEPLOY" target property was added to tell Visual Studio Generators whether to deploy an artifact to the WinCE or Windows Phone target device.
Modules:
The "FindBoost" module was reworked to expose a more consistent user experience between its “Config” and “Module” modes and with other find modules in general.
A new imported target "Boost::headers" is now defined (same as "Boost::boost").
New output variables "Boost_VERSION_MACRO", "Boost_VERSION_MAJOR", "Boost_VERSION_MINOR", "Boost_VERSION_PATCH", and "Boost_VERSION_COUNT" were added.
The "QUIET" argument passed to "find_package()" is no longer ignored in config mode. Note that the CMake package shipped with Boost "1.70.0" ignores the "QUIET" argument passed to "find_package()". This is fixed in the next Boost release.
The input switch "Boost_DETAILED_FAILURE_MSG" was removed.
"Boost_VERSION" now reports the version in "x.y.z" format in module mode. See policy "CMP0093".
The "FindCups" module now provides imported targets.
The "FindEnvModules" module was added to use Lua- and TCL-based environment modules in CTest Scripts.
The "FindGLEW" module now provides an interface more consistent with what upstream GLEW provides in its own CMake package files.
The "FindPkgConfig" now populates "INTERFACE_LINK_OPTIONS" property of imported targets with other (non-library) linker flags.
The "FindPostgreSQL" module learned to find debug and release variants separately.
Modules "FindPython3", "FindPython2" and "FindPython" gained additional lookup strategies and controls, and a new default. See policy "CMP0094".
Modules "FindPython", "FindPython2" and "FindPython3" gain a new target (respectively "Python::Module", "Python2::Module" and "Python3::Module") which can be used to develop Python modules.
Modules "FindPython3", "FindPython2" and "FindPython" gain capability to control how virtual environments are handled.
The "UseSWIG" module learned to manage alternate library names by passing "-interface " for "python" language or "-dllimport " for "CSharp" language to the "SWIG" compiler.
Generator Expressions:
The "generator expressions" "C_COMPILER_ID", "CXX_COMPILER_ID", "CUDA_COMPILER_ID", "Fortran_COMPILER_ID", "COMPILE_LANGUAGE", "COMPILE_LANG_AND_ID", and "PLATFORM_ID" learned to support matching one value from a comma-separated list.
CTest:
The "ctest_submit()" command learned a new option: "BUILD_ID". This can be used to store the ID assigned to this build by CDash to a variable.
The "ctest_update()" command learned to honor a new variable: "CTEST_UPDATE_VERSION_OVERRIDE". This can be used to specify the current version of your source tree rather than using the update command to discover the current version that is checked out.
CPack:
The "CPack IFW Generator" gained a new "CPACK_IFW_PACKAGE_STYLE_SHEET" variable to customize the installer stylesheet.
Deprecated and Removed Features:
The "cmake-server(7)" mode has been deprecated and will be removed from a future version of CMake. Please port clients to use the "cmake-file-api(7)" instead.
The "ADDITIONAL_MAKE_CLEAN_FILES" directory property is now deprecated. Use the "ADDITIONAL_CLEAN_FILES" directory property instead.
The variable "CMAKE_AUTOMOC_RELAXED_MODE" is considered deprecated. Support still exists but will be removed in future versions.
The "export(PACKAGE)" command now does nothing unless enabled via "CMAKE_EXPORT_PACKAGE_REGISTRY". See policy "CMP0090".
The "Xcode" generator now requires at least Xcode 5.
An explicit deprecation diagnostic was added for policy "CMP0066" ("CMP0065" and below were already deprecated). The "cmake-policies(7)" manual explains that the OLD behaviors of all policies are deprecated and that projects should port to the NEW behaviors.
Other Changes:
CMake learned how to compile C++14 with the IBM AIX XL compiler and the SunPro compiler and to compile C++20 with the AppleClang compiler.
With MSVC-like compilers the value of "CMAKE__FLAGS" no longer contains warning flags like "/W3" by default. See policy "CMP0092".
IBM Clang-based XL compilers that define "__ibmxl__" now use the compiler id "XLClang" instead of "XL". See policy "CMP0089".
The "file(REMOVE)" and "file(REMOVE_RECURSE)" commands were changed to ignore empty arguments with a warning instead of treating them as a relative path and removing the contents of the current directory.

New in CMake 3.14.6 (Jul 17, 2019)

New in CMake 3.14.5 (Jun 3, 2019)

New in CMake 3.14.4 (May 15, 2019)

New in CMake 3.14.3 (Apr 23, 2019)

New in CMake 3.14.2 (Apr 14, 2019)

New in CMake 3.14.1 (Mar 30, 2019)

New in CMake 3.14.0 RC 1 (Feb 11, 2019)

CMake now supports Cross Compiling for iOS, tvOS, or watchOS using simple toolchain files.
The “Visual Studio 16 2019” generator was added. This is experimental and based on “Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2” because this version of VS has not been released. The VS 2019 generator differs from generators for earlier versions in that it does not provide variants that specify the target platform in the generator name. Instead “CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM” must be used, e.g. through the “-A” command-line option. Furthermore, the default target platform (architecture) is now based on the *host* platform. The VS host toolset selection is now based
on the host architecture as well.
A “CMAKE_BUILD_RPATH_USE_ORIGIN” variable and corresponding “BUILD_RPATH_USE_ORIGIN” target property were added to enable use of relative runtime paths (RPATHs). This helps achieving relocatable and reproducible builds that are invariant of the build directory.
The “install(TARGETS)” command learned how to install to an appropriate default directory for a given target type, based on variables from the “GNUInstallDirs” module and built-in defaults, in lieu of a “DESTINATION” argument.
The “install(FILES)” and “install(DIRECTORY)” commands learned a new set of parameters for installing files as a file type, setting the destination based on the appropriate variables from “GNUInstallDirs” and built-in defaults, in lieu of a “DESTINATION” argument.
The “install(CODE)” and “install(SCRIPT)” commands learned to support generator expressions. See policy “CMP0087”.
The “if()” command gained support for checking if cache variables are defined with the “DEFINED CACHE{VAR}” syntax.
A file-based api for clients to get semantic build systeminformation has been added. See the “cmake-file-api(7)” manual.This is intended to replace the “cmake-server(7)” mode for IDEs.
The “cmake(1)” Build Tool Mode (“cmake –build”) gained “– verbose” and “-v” options to specify verbose build output. Some generators such as Xcode don’t support this option currently.
The “cmake(1)” “-E compare_files” command learned a new “–ignore-eol” option to specify that end-of-line differences (e.g. LF vs CRLF) should be ignored when comparing files.

New in CMake 3.13.4 (Feb 5, 2019)

New in CMake 3.13.3 (Jan 16, 2019)

New in CMake 3.13.2 (Dec 14, 2018)

New in CMake 3.13.1 (Dec 5, 2018)

New in CMake 3.13.0 (Dec 5, 2018)

The Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above learned to support the “INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION” target property and supporting “CheckIPOSupported” module.
The “Green Hills MULTI” generator has been updated to include support for platform, architecture, and toolset selection.
The “cmake” command gained the “-S ” command line option to specify the location of the source directory. This option can be used independently of “-B”.
The “cmake” command gained the “-B ” command line option to specify the location of the build directory. This option can be used independently of “-S”.
The “cmake” “-E create_symlink” command can now be used on Windows.
The “target_link_directories()” command was created to specify link directories for targets and their dependents.
The “target_link_options()” command was created to specify link options for targets and their dependents.
The “target_link_libraries()” command may now be called to modify targets created outside the current directory. See policy “CMP0079”.
The “install(TARGETS)” command learned to install targets created outside the current directory.
A “VS_DEBUGGER_COMMAND_ARGUMENTS” target property was created to set the debugging command line arguments with Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above.
A “VS_DEBUGGER_ENVIRONMENT” target property was created to set the debugging environment with Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above.
The “option()” command now honors an existing normal variable of the same name and does nothing instead of possibly creating a cache entry (or setting its type) and removing the normal variable. See policy “CMP0077”.
The “target_sources()” command now interprets relative source file paths as relative to the current source directory. This simplifies incrementally building up a target’s sources from subdirectories.
The “CMP0076” policy was added to provide backward compatibility with the old behavior where required.

New in CMake 3.12.3 (Oct 4, 2018)

New in CMake 3.12.2 (Sep 11, 2018)

New in CMake 3.12.1 (Aug 10, 2018)

New in CMake 3.12.0 (Jul 18, 2018)

The “target_link_libraries()” command now supports Object Libraries. Linking to an object library uses its object files in direct dependents and also propagates usage requirements
The “file(GLOB)” and “file(GLOB_RECURSE)” commands learned a new flag “CONFIGURE_DEPENDS” which enables expression of build system dependency on globbed directory’s contents
The “Compile Features” functionality is now aware of C++ 20. No specific features are yet enumerated besides the “cxx_std_20” meta- feature
The Visual Studio Generators for VS 2017 learned to support a “version=14.##” option in the “CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET” value (e.g
via the “cmake(1)” “-T” option) to specify a toolset version number
The “cmake(1)” Build Tool Mode (“cmake –build”) gained “– parallel []” and “-j []” options to specify a parallel build level. They map to corresponding options of the native build tool
The “add_compile_definitions()” command was added to set preprocessor definitions at directory level. This supersedes “add_definitions()”
The “cmake_minimum_required()” and “cmake_policy(VERSION)” commands now accept a version range using the form “[…]”. The “” version is required but policies are set based on the “” version. This allows projects to specify a range of versions for which they have been updated and avoid explicit policy settings
The “find_package()” command now searches a prefix specified by a “PackageName_ROOT” CMake or environment variable. Package roots are maintained as a stack so nested calls to all “find_*” commands inside find modules also search the roots as prefixes. See policy “CMP0074”
A new “$” and “$” “generator expression” has been added to enable consumption of generator expressions whose evaluation results itself in generator expressions
A new “$” “generator expression” has been added
A new “$” “generator expression” has been added
The “FindCURL” module now provides imported targets
The “FindJPEG” module now provides imported targets
A “FindODBC” module was added to find an Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) library
New “FindPython3” and “FindPython2” modules, as well as a new “FindPython” module, have been added to provide a new way to locate python environments.

New in CMake 3.11.3 (Jun 1, 2018)

New in CMake 3.11.2 (May 18, 2018)

New in CMake 3.11.1 (Apr 18, 2018)

New in CMake 3.11.0 (Mar 29, 2018)

The Makefile Generators and the “Ninja” generator learned to add compiler launcher tools along with the compiler for the “Fortran” language (“C”, “CXX”, and “CUDA” were supported previously). See the “CMAKE__COMPILER_LAUNCHER” variable and “_COMPILER_LAUNCHER” target property for details.
Visual Studio Generators learned to support the “COMPILE_LANGUAGE” “generator expression” in target-wide “COMPILE_DEFINITIONS”, “INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES”, “COMPILE_OPTIONS”, and “file(GENERATE)”. See generator expression documentation for caveats.
The “Xcode” Generator learned to support the “COMPILE_LANGUAGE” “generator expression” in target-wide “COMPILE_DEFINITIONS” and “INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES”. It previously supported only “COMPILE_OPTIONS” and “file(GENERATE)”. See generator expression documentation for caveats.
“add_library()” and “add_executable()” commands can now be called without any sources and will not complain as long as sources are added later via the “target_sources()” command.
The “target_compile_definitions()” command learned to set the “INTERFACE_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS” property on Imported Targets.
The “target_compile_features()” command learned to set the “INTERFACE_COMPILE_FEATURES” property on Imported Targets.
The “target_compile_options()” command learned to set the “INTERFACE_COMPILE_OPTIONS” property on Imported Targets.
The “target_include_directories()” command learned to set the “INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES” property on Imported Targets.
The “target_sources()” command learned to set the “INTERFACE_SOURCES” property on Imported Targets.
The “target_link_libraries()” command learned to set the “INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES” property on Imported Targets.
The “COMPILE_DEFINITIONS” source file property learned to support “generator expressions”.
A “COMPILE_OPTIONS” source file property was added to manage list of options to pass to the compiler.
When using “AUTOMOC” or “AUTOUIC”, CMake now starts multiple parallel “moc” or “uic” processes to reduce the build time. A new “CMAKE_AUTOGEN_PARALLEL” variable and “AUTOGEN_PARALLEL” target property may be set to specify the number of parallel “moc” or “uic” processes to start. The default is derived from the number of CPUs on the host.

New in CMake 3.11.0 RC 4 (Mar 20, 2018)

New in CMake 3.10.3 (Mar 17, 2018)

New in CMake 3.10.2 (Jan 18, 2018)

New in CMake 3.10.1 (Dec 15, 2017)

New in CMake 3.9.6 (Nov 11, 2017)

New in CMake 3.9.5 (Nov 4, 2017)

New in CMake 3.10.0 RC 4 (Nov 2, 2017)

The flang Fortran compiler is now supported, with compiler id “Flang”.
Support for the MSVC ARM64 architecture was added. Visual Studio 2017 Update 4 and above offer an ARM64 toolchain.
The “include_guard()” command was introduced to allow guarding CMake scripts from being included more than once. The command supports “DIRECTORY” and “GLOBAL” options to adjust the corresponding include guard scope. If no options given, include guard is similar to basic variable-based check.
“FindMPI” received a major overhaul. It now features language specific components, better Fortran support, and support for statically linked MPI implementations.
A “FindOpenACC” module was added to detect compiler support for OpenACC. Currently only supports PGI, GNU and Cray compilers.
The “FindOpenGL” module underwent numerous improvements. It has gained support for GLVND and EGL on Linux. It now has import targets that separate the OpenGL library and OpenGL contexts.
The “GoogleTest” module gained a new command “gtest_discover_tests()” implementing dynamic (build-time) test discovery.
When using “AUTOMOC” or “AUTOUIC”, source files that are “GENERATED” will be processed as well. They were ignored by “AUTOMOC” and “AUTOUIC” in earlier releases. See policy “CMP0071”.
A “CTEST_LABELS_FOR_SUBPROJECTS” CTest module variable and CTest script variable were added to specify a list of labels that should be treated as subprojects by CDash. To use this value in both the CTest module and the ctest command line Dashboard Client mode (e.g. “ctest -S”) set it in the “CTestConfig.cmake” config file.
CPack gained a “FREEBSD” generator for FreeBSD “pkg(8)”, configured by the “CPackFreeBSD” module.
The CPack “DEB” generator, configured by the “CPackDeb” module, was enabled on Windows. While not fully featured (due to the lack of external UNIX tools) this will allow building basic cross-platform Debian packages.
The “cmake(1)” “-E” mode gained support for “sha1sum”, “sha224sum”, “sha256sum”, “sha384sum”, and “sha512sum”.
The “file(GENERATE)” command now interprets relative paths given to its “OUTPUT” and “INPUT” arguments with respect to the caller’s current binary and source directories, respectively. See policy “CMP0070”.

New in CMake 3.10.0 RC 2 (Oct 13, 2017)

The flang Fortran compiler is now supported, with compiler id “Flang”.
Support for the MSVC ARM64 architecture was added. Visual Studio 2017 Update 4 and above offer an ARM64 toolchain.
The “include_guard()” command was introduced to allow guarding CMake scripts from being included more than once. The command supports “DIRECTORY” and “GLOBAL” options to adjust the corresponding include guard scope. If no options given, include guard is similar to basic variable-based check.
“FindMPI” received a major overhaul. It now features language specific components, better Fortran support, and support for statically linked MPI implementations.
A “FindOpenACC” module was added to detect compiler support for OpenACC. Currently only supports PGI, GNU and Cray compilers.
The “FindOpenGL” module underwent numerous improvements. It has gained support for GLVND and EGL on Linux. It now has import targets that separate the OpenGL library and OpenGL contexts.
The “GoogleTest” module gained a new command “gtest_discover_tests()” implementing dynamic (build-time) test
discovery.
When using “AUTOMOC” or “AUTOUIC”, source files that are “GENERATED” will be processed as well. They were ignored by “AUTOMOC” and “AUTOUIC” in earlier releases. See policy “CMP0071”.
A “CTEST_LABELS_FOR_SUBPROJECTS” CTest module variable and CTest script variable were added to specify a list of labels that should be treated as subprojects by CDash. To use this value in both the CTest module and the ctest command line Dashboard Client mode (e.g. “ctest -S”) set it in the “CTestConfig.cmake” config file.
CPack gained a “FREEBSD” generator for FreeBSD “pkg(8)”, configured by the “CPackFreeBSD” module.
The CPack “DEB” generator, configured by the “CPackDeb” module, was enabled on Windows. While not fully featured (due to the lack of external UNIX tools) this will allow building basic cross-platform Debian packages.
The “cmake(1)” “-E” mode gained support for “sha1sum”, “sha224sum”, “sha256sum”, “sha384sum”, and “sha512sum”.
The “file(GENERATE)” command now interprets relative paths given to its “OUTPUT” and “INPUT” arguments with respect to the caller’s current binary and source directories, respectively. See policy “CMP0070”.

New in CMake 3.10 RC 1 (Oct 6, 2017)

PLATFORMS:
The flang Fortran compiler is now supported, with compiler id Flang.
A new minimal platform file for Midipix was added.
Support for the MSVC ARM64 architecture was added. Visual Studio 2017 Update 4 and above offer an ARM64 toolchain.
Support for the IAR ARM Compiler was improved.:
GENERATORS:
The Makefile Generators and the Ninja generator learned to add compiler launcher tools like ccache along with the compiler for the CUDA language (C and CXX were supported previously). See the CMAKE__COMPILER_LAUNCHER variable and _COMPILER_LAUNCHER target property for details.
The CodeBlocks extra generator learned to optionally exclude files from outside the project root directory from the generated project. See the CMAKE_CODEBLOCKS_EXCLUDE_EXTERNAL_FILES variable.:
COMMANDS:
The cmake_host_system_information() command learned more keys to get information about the processor capabilities and the host OS version.
The configure_file() command learned to support indented # cmakedefine and # cmakedefine01. Spaces and/or tabs between the # character and the cmakedefine/cmakedefine01 words are now understood and preserved in the output.
The execute_process() command gained a RESULTS_VARIABLE option to collect a list of results from all children in a pipeline of processes when multiple COMMAND arguments are given.
The include_guard() command was introduced to allow guarding CMake scripts from being included more than once. The command supports DIRECTORY and GLOBAL options to adjust the corresponding include guard scope. If no options given, include guard is similar to basic variable-based check.
The string() command learned a new PREPEND subcommand.
The string(TIMESTAMP) command now supports %A for full weekday name and %B for full month name.:
VARIABLES:
A CMAKE_DIRECTORY_LABELS variable was added to specify labels for all tests in a directory.:
PROPERTIES:
A _CPPCHECK target property and supporting CMAKE__CPPCHECK variable were introduced to tell the Makefile Generators and the Ninja generator to run cppcheck with the compiler for C and CXX languages.
A LABELS directory property was added to specify labels for all targets and tests in a directory.
A TEST_INCLUDE_FILES directory property was added to list any number of files to be included when running tests with ctest(1). This generalizes the TEST_INCLUDE_FILE property.
The VS_DOTNET_REFERENCEPROP__TAG_ target property was added to support custom XML tags for reference assemblies in C# targets.
Source file properties VS_SHADER_OUTPUT_HEADER_FILE and VS_SHADER_VARIABLE_NAME have been added to specify more details of .hlsl sources with Visual Studio Generators.:
MODULES:
The FindCurses module gained a CURSES_NEED_WIDE option to request the wide-character variant.
The FindEXPAT module now provides imported targets.
The FindFreetype module now provides imported targets.
FindMPI gained a number of new features, including:
Language-specific components have been added to the module.
Many more MPI environments are now supported.
The environmental support for Fortran has been improved.
A user now has fine-grained control over the MPI selection process, including passing custom parameters to the MPI compiler.
The version of the implemented MPI standard is now being exposed.
MPI-2 C++ bindings can now be detected and also suppressed if so desired.
The available Fortran bindings are now being detected and verified.
Various MPI-3 information can be requested, including the library version and Fortran capabilities of the individual bindings.
Statically linked MPI implementations are supported.
A FindOpenACC module was added to detect compiler support for OpenACC. Currently only supports PGI, GNU and Cray compilers.
The FindOpenGL module gained support for GLVND on Linux.
The FindOpenMP module gained support for language-specific components.
A FindPatch module was added to find the patch command-line executable.
The FindProtobuf module protobuf_generate_cpp() command gained a DESCRIPTORS option to generate descriptor files.
The GoogleTest module gained a new command gtest_discover_tests() implementing dynamic (build-time) test discovery. Unlike the source parsing approach, dynamic discovery executes the test (in ‘list available tests’ mode) at build time to discover tests. This is robust against unusual ways of labeling tests, provides much better support for advanced features such as parameterized tests, and does not require re-running CMake to discover added or removed tests within a test executable.
The InstallRequiredSystemLibraries module gained support for installing Intel compiler runtimes.:
AUTOGEN:
When using AUTOMOC or AUTOUIC with a multi configuration generator (e.g. Xcode), included *.moc, moc_*.cpp and ui_*.h files are generated in /include_ instead of /include.
When using AUTOMOC or AUTOUIC, source files that are GENERATED will be processed as well. They were ignored by AUTOMOC and AUTOUIC in earlier releases. See policy CMP0071.
When using AUTOMOC, CMake searches for the strings Q_OBJECT, Q_GADGET or Q_NAMESPACE in a source file to determine if it needs to be moc processed. The new variable CMAKE_AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES allows to register additional strings (macro names) so search for.
When using AUTOMOC, CMake searches for the strings Q_OBJECT, Q_GADGET or Q_NAMESPACE in a source file to determine if it needs to be moc processed. The new target property AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES allows to register additional strings (macro names) so search for.
When using AUTOMOC, the new variable CMAKE_AUTOMOC_COMPILER_PREDEFINES allows to default enable or disable the generation of the compiler pre definitions file moc_predefs.h.
When using AUTOMOC, the new boolean target property AUTOMOC_COMPILER_PREDEFINES allows to enable or disable the generation of the compiler pre definitions file moc_predefs.h.:
CTEST:
A CTEST_LABELS_FOR_SUBPROJECTS CTest module variable and CTest script variable were added to specify a list of labels that should be treated as subprojects by CDash. To use this value in both the CTest module and the ctest command line Dashboard Client mode (e.g. ctest -S) set it in the CTestConfig.cmake config file.:
CPACK:
CPack gained a FREEBSD generator for FreeBSD pkg(8), configured by the CPackFreeBSD module.
The CPack DEB generator, configured by the CPackDeb module, was enabled on Windows. While not fully featured (due to the lack of external UNIX tools) this will allow building basic cross-platform Debian packages.
The CPackDeb module learned to set package release version in Version info property. See the CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_RELEASE variable.
The CPackDeb module learned more strict package version checking that complies with Debian rules.
The CPackIFW module cpack_ifw_configure_component() and cpack_ifw_configure_component_group() commands gained a new REPLACES and CHECKABLE options.
The CPackIFW module gained new CPACK_IFW_PACKAGE_FILE_EXTENSION variable to customize target binary format.
The CPackIFW module gained new CPACK_IFW_REPOSITORIES_DIRECTORIES variable to specify additional repositories dirs that will be used to resolve and repack dependent components. This feature available only since QtIFW 3.1.
Modules CPackRPM and CPackDeb learned to set package epoch version. See CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_EPOCH and CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_EPOCH variables.:
OTHER:
The cmake(1) -E mode gained support for sha1sum, sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum, and sha512sum.
The graphviz output now distinguishes among the different dependency types PUBLIC, PRIVATE and INTERFACE and represents them in the output graph as solid, dashed and dotted edges.:
DEPRECATED AND REMOVED FEATURES:
Support for building CMake itself with C++98 compilers was dropped. CMake is now implemented using C++11.
Support for building CMake on HP-UX has been dropped pending better support for C++11 and a port of libuv. See CMake Issue 17137. Use CMake 3.9 or lower instead for HP-UX support.:
OTHER CHANGES:
On FreeBSD the C++ compiler named c++ is now the preferred default.
The file(GENERATE) command now interprets relative paths given to its OUTPUT and INPUT arguments with respect to the caller’s current binary and source directories, respectively. See policy CMP0070.
The get_filename_component() PROGRAM mode semantics have been revised to not tolerate unquoted spaces in the path to the program while also accepting arguments. While technically incompatible with the old behavior, it is expected that behavior under typical use cases with properly-quoted command-lines has not changed.:

New in CMake 3.9.3 (Sep 21, 2017)

New in CMake 3.9.2 (Sep 8, 2017)

New in CMake 3.9.1 (Aug 11, 2017)

New in CMake 3.9.0 (Jul 19, 2017)

The “Visual Studio 14 2015” generator has been taught about a change to the “v140” toolset made by a VS 2015 update. VS changed the set of values it understands for the “GenerateDebugInformation” linker setting that produces the “-DEBUG” linker flag variants.
“CUDA” is now supported by the Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above. This complements the existing support by the Makefile Generators and the “Ninja” generator. CUDA 8.0.61 or higher is recommended due to known bugs in the VS integration by earlier versions.
CMake is now aware of the “C++ standards” and “C standards” and their associated meta-features for the following “compiler ids”: “Cray”, “PGI”, and “XL”.
The “add_library()” command “IMPORTED” option learned to support Object Libraries.
All “find_” commands now have a “PACKAGE_ROOT” search path group that is first in the search heuristics. If a “find_” command is called from inside a find module, then the CMake variable and environment variable named “_ROOT” are used as prefixes and are the first set of paths to be searched.
The “install(TARGETS)” command learned a new “OBJECTS” option to specify where to install Object Libraries.
The “install(EXPORT)” command learned how to export Object Libraries.
A “BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_NAME_DIR” target property and corresponding “CMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_NAME_DIR” variable were added to control whether to use the “INSTALL_NAME_DIR” target property value for binaries in the build tree. This is for macOS “install_name” as “BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH” is for “RPATH”.
A “CUDA_PTX_COMPILATION” target property was added to Object Libraries to support compiling to “.ptx” files instead of host object files.
A new “GoogleTest” module was added to provide the “gtest_add_tests()” function independently of the “FindGTest” module. The function was also updated to support keyword arguments, with functionality expanded to allow a test name prefix and suffix to be specified, the dependency on the source files to be optional and the list of discovered test cases to be returned to the caller.
The “Ninja” generator has loosened the dependencies of object compilation. Object compilation now depends only on custom targets and custom commands associated with libraries on which the object’s target depends and no longer depends on the libraries themselves. Source files in dependent targets may now compile without waiting for their targets’ dependencies to link.
Interprocedural optimization (IPO) is now supported for GNU and Clang compilers using link time optimization (LTO) flags. See the “INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION” target property and “CheckIPOSupported” module.
The “TARGET_OBJECTS” “generator expression” is now supported by the “add_custom_command()” and “file(GENERATE)” commands.

New in CMake 3.9.0 RC 6 (Jul 13, 2017)

An update to Visual Studio 2015 changed the GenerateDebugInformation linker setting it expects in .vcxproj files. CMake 3.9 has been updated to account for this.
“CUDA” is now supported by the Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above. This complements the existing support by the Makefile Generators and the “Ninja” generator. CUDA 8.0.61 or higher is recommended due to known bugs in the VS integration by earlier versions.
CMake is now aware of the “C++ standards” and “C standards” and their associated meta-features for the following “compiler ids”: “Cray”, “PGI”, and “XL”.
The “add_library()” command “IMPORTED” option learned to support Object Libraries.
All “find_” commands now have a “PACKAGE_ROOT” search path group that is first in the search heuristics. If a “find_” command is called from inside a find module, then the CMake variable and environment variable named “_ROOT” are used as prefixes and are the first set of paths to be searched.
The “install(TARGETS)” command learned a new “OBJECTS” option to specify where to install Object Libraries.
The “install(EXPORT)” command learned how to export Object Libraries.
A “BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_NAME_DIR” target property and corresponding “CMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_NAME_DIR” variable were added to control whether to use the “INSTALL_NAME_DIR” target property value for binaries in the build tree. This is for macOS “install_name” as “BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH” is for “RPATH”.
A “CUDA_PTX_COMPILATION” target property was added to Object Libraries to support compiling to “.ptx” files instead of host object files.
A new “GoogleTest” module was added to provide the “gtest_add_tests()” function independently of the “FindGTest” module. The function was also updated to support keyword arguments, with functionality expanded to allow a test name prefix and suffix to be specified, the dependency on the source files to be optional and the list of discovered test cases to be returned to the caller.
The “Ninja” generator has loosened the dependencies of object compilation. Object compilation now depends only on custom targets and custom commands associated with libraries on which the object’s target depends and no longer depends on the libraries themselves. Source files in dependent targets may now compile without waiting for their targets’ dependencies to link.
Interprocedural optimization (IPO) is now supported for GNU and Clang compilers using link time optimization (LTO) flags. See the “INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION” target property and “CheckIPOSupported” module.
The “TARGET_OBJECTS” “generator expression” is now supported by the “add_custom_command()” and “file(GENERATE)” commands.

New in CMake 3.9.0 RC 5 (Jun 28, 2017)

“CUDA” is now supported by the Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above. This complements the existing support by the Makefile Generators and the “Ninja” generator. CUDA 8.0.61 or higher is recommended due to known bugs in the VS integration by earlier versions.
CMake is now aware of the “C++ standards” and “C standards” and their associated meta-features for the following “compiler ids”: “Cray”, “PGI”, and “XL”.
The “add_library()” command “IMPORTED” option learned to support Object Libraries.
All “find_” commands now have a “PACKAGE_ROOT” search path group that is first in the search heuristics. If a “find_” command is called from inside a find module, then the CMake variable and environment variable named “_ROOT” are used as prefixes and are the first set of paths to be searched.
The “install(TARGETS)” command learned a new “OBJECTS” option to specify where to install Object Libraries.
The “install(EXPORT)” command learned how to export Object Libraries.
A “BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_NAME_DIR” target property and corresponding “CMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_NAME_DIR” variable were added to control whether to use the “INSTALL_NAME_DIR” target property value for binaries in the build tree. This is for macOS “install_name” as “BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH” is for “RPATH”.
A “CUDA_PTX_COMPILATION” target property was added to Object Libraries to support compiling to “.ptx” files instead of host object files.
A new “GoogleTest” module was added to provide the “gtest_add_tests()” function independently of the “FindGTest” module. The function was also updated to support keyword arguments, with functionality expanded to allow a test name prefix and suffix to be specified, the dependency on the source files to be optional and the list of discovered test cases to be returned to the caller.
The “Ninja” generator has loosened the dependencies of object compilation. Object compilation now depends only on custom targets and custom commands associated with libraries on which the object’s target depends and no longer depends on the libraries themselves. Source files in dependent targets may now compile without waiting for their targets’ dependencies to link.
Interprocedural optimization (IPO) is now supported for GNU and Clang compilers using link time optimization (LTO) flags. See the “INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION” target property and “CheckIPOSupported” module.
The “TARGET_OBJECTS” “generator expression” is now supported by the “add_custom_command()” and “file(GENERATE)” commands.

New in CMake 3.9.0 RC 4 (Jun 23, 2017)

“CUDA” is now supported by the Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above. This complements the existing support by the Makefile Generators and the “Ninja” generator. CUDA 8.0.61 or higher is recommended due to known bugs in the VS integration by earlier versions.
CMake is now aware of the “C++ standards” and “C standards” and their associated meta-features for the following “compiler ids”: “Cray”, “PGI”, and “XL”.
The “add_library()” command “IMPORTED” option learned to support Object Libraries.
All “find_” commands now have a “PACKAGE_ROOT” search path group that is first in the search heuristics. If a “find_” command is called from inside a find module, then the CMake variable and environment variable named “_ROOT” are used as prefixes and are the first set of paths to be searched.
The “install(TARGETS)” command learned a new “OBJECTS” option to specify where to install Object Libraries.
The “install(EXPORT)” command learned how to export Object Libraries.
A “BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_NAME_DIR” target property and corresponding “CMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_NAME_DIR” variable were added to control whether to use the “INSTALL_NAME_DIR” target property value for binaries in the build tree. This is for macOS “install_name” as “BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH” is for “RPATH”.
A “CUDA_PTX_COMPILATION” target property was added to Object Libraries to support compiling to “.ptx” files instead of host object files.
A new “GoogleTest” module was added to provide the “gtest_add_tests()” function independently of the “FindGTest” module. The function was also updated to support keyword arguments, with functionality expanded to allow a test name prefix and suffix to be specified, the dependency on the source files to be optional and the list of discovered test cases to be returned to the caller.
The “Ninja” generator has loosened the dependencies of object compilation. Object compilation now depends only on custom targets and custom commands associated with libraries on which the object’s target depends and no longer depends on the libraries themselves. Source files in dependent targets may now compile without waiting for their targets’ dependencies to link.
Interprocedural optimization (IPO) is now supported for GNU and Clang compilers using link time optimization (LTO) flags. See the “INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION” target property and “CheckIPOSupported” module.
The “TARGET_OBJECTS” “generator expression” is now supported by the “add_custom_command()” and “file(GENERATE)” commands.

New in CMake 3.9.0 RC 3 (Jun 17, 2017)

The “add_library()” command “IMPORTED” option learned to support Object Libraries.
All “find_” commands now have a “PACKAGE_ROOT” search path group that is first in the search heuristics. If a “find_” command is called from inside a find module, then the CMake variable and environment variable named “_ROOT” are used as prefixes and are the first set of paths to be searched.
The “install(TARGETS)” command learned a new “OBJECTS” option to specify where to install Object Libraries.
The “install(EXPORT)” command learned how to export Object Libraries.
A “BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_NAME_DIR” target property and corresponding “CMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_NAME_DIR” variable were added to control whether to use the “INSTALL_NAME_DIR” target property value for binaries in the build tree. This is for macOS “install_name” as “BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH” is for “RPATH”.
A “CUDA_PTX_COMPILATION” target property was added to Object Libraries to support compiling to “.ptx” files instead of host object files.
A new “GoogleTest” module was added to provide the “gtest_add_tests()” function independently of the “FindGTest” module. The function was also updated to support keyword arguments, with functionality expanded to allow a test name prefix and suffix to be specified, the dependency on the source files to be optional and the list of discovered test cases to be returned to the caller.
The “Ninja” generator has loosened the dependencies of object compilation. Object compilation now depends only on custom targets and custom commands associated with libraries on which the object’s target depends and no longer depends on the libraries themselves. Source files in dependent targets may now compile without waiting for their targets’ dependencies to link.
Interprocedural optimization (IPO) is now supported for GNU and Clang compilers using link time optimization (LTO) flags. See the “INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION” target property and “CheckIPOSupported” module.
The “TARGET_OBJECTS” “generator expression” is now supported by the “add_custom_command()” and “file(GENERATE)” commands.

New in CMake 3.9.0 RC 1 (Jun 6, 2017)

Highlights:
The “add_library()” command “IMPORTED” option learned to support Object Libraries.
All “find_” commands now have a “PACKAGE_ROOT” search path group that is first in the search heuristics. If a “find_” command is called from inside a find module, then the CMake variable and environment variable named “_ROOT” are used as prefixes and are the first set of paths to be searched.
The “install(TARGETS)” command learned a new “OBJECTS” option to specify where to install Object Libraries.
The “install(EXPORT)” command learned how to export Object Libraries.
A “BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_NAME_DIR” target property and corresponding “CMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_NAME_DIR” variable were added to control whether to use the “INSTALL_NAME_DIR” target property value for binaries in the build tree. This is for macOS “install_name” as “BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH” is for “RPATH”.
A “CUDA_PTX_COMPILATION” target property was added to Object Libraries to support compiling to “.ptx” files instead of host object files.
A new “GoogleTest” module was added to provide the “gtest_add_tests()” function independently of the “FindGTest” module. The function was also updated to support keyword arguments, with functionality expanded to allow a test name prefix and suffix to be specified, the dependency on the source files to be optional and the list of discovered test cases to be returned to the caller.
The “Ninja” generator has loosened the dependencies of object compilation. Object compilation now depends only on custom targets and custom commands associated with libraries on which the object’s target depends and no longer depends on the libraries themselves.
Source files in dependent targets may now compile without waiting for their targets’ dependencies to link.
Interprocedural optimization (IPO) is now supported for GNU and Clang compilers using link time optimization (LTO) flags. See the “INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION” target property and “CheckIPOSupported” module.
The “TARGET_OBJECTS” “generator expression” is now supported by the “add_custom_command()” and “file(GENERATE)” commands.

New in CMake 3.8.2 (Jun 1, 2017)

New in CMake 3.8.1 (May 3, 2017)

New in CMake 3.8.0 (Apr 10, 2017)

CMake now supports “CSharp” (C#) as a first-class language. It is currently supported by the Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above.
CMake now supports “CUDA” as a first-class language. It is currently supported by the Makefile Generators and the “Ninja” generator on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Support for the Visual Studio IDE is under development but not included in this release.
The “Compile Features” functionality now offers meta-features that request compiler modes for specific language standard levels (e.g. “cxx_std_11”). See “CMAKE_C_KNOWN_FEATURES” and “CMAKE_CXX_KNOWN_FEATURES”.
The “Compile Features” functionality is now aware of C++ 17. No specific features are yet enumerated besides the “cxx_std_17” meta-
feature.
The Visual Studio Generators for VS 2013 and above learned to support a “host=x64” option in the “CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET” value (e.g. via the “cmake(1)” “-T” option) to request use of a VS 64-bit toolchain on 64-bit hosts.
The Visual Studio Generators learned to treat files passed to “target_link_libraries()” whose names end in “.targets” as MSBuild “targets” files to be imported into generated project files.
The “try_compile()” command source file signature gained new options to specify the language standard to use in the generated
test project.
The “try_compile()” command source file signature now honors language standard variables like “CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD”. See policy
“CMP0067”.
A “BUILD_RPATH” target property and corresponding “CMAKE_BUILD_RPATH” variable were added to support custom “RPATH” locations to be added to binaries in the build tree.
The “COMPILE_FLAGS” source file property learned to support “generator expressions”.
A new generator expression “$” was added. It resolves to the true-value if the condition is “1” and resolves to the false-value if the condition is “0”.
The “Compile Features” functionality is now aware of features supported by Intel C++ compilers versions 12.1 through 17.0 on UNIX and Windows platforms.
The Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above now place per-source file flags after target-wide flags when they are classified as raw flags with no project file setting (“AdditionalOptions”).
This behavior is more consistent with the ordering of flags produced by other generators, and allows flags on more-specific properties (per-source) to override those on more general ones (per-target).
The precompiled Windows binary MSI package provided on “cmake.org” now records the installation directory in the Windows Registry under the key “HKLMSoftwareKitwareCMake” with a value named “InstallDir”.

New in CMake 3.8.0 RC 4 (Mar 30, 2017)

CMake now supports “CSharp” (C#) as a first-class language. It is currently supported by the Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above.
CMake now supports “CUDA” as a first-class language. It is currently supported by the Makefile Generators and the “Ninja” generator on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Support for the Visual Studio IDE is under development but not included in this release.
The “Compile Features” functionality now offers meta-features that request compiler modes for specific language standard levels (e.g. “cxx_std_11”). See “CMAKE_C_KNOWN_FEATURES” and “CMAKE_CXX_KNOWN_FEATURES”.
The “Compile Features” functionality is now aware of C++ 17. No specific features are yet enumerated besides the “cxx_std_17” meta- feature.
The Visual Studio Generators for VS 2013 and above learned to support a “host=x64” option in the “CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET” value (e.g. via the “cmake(1)” “-T” option) to request use of a VS 64-bit toolchain on 64-bit hosts.
The Visual Studio Generators learned to treat files passed to “target_link_libraries()” whose names end in “.targets” as MSBuild “targets” files to be imported into generated project files. The “try_compile()” command source file signature gained new options to specify the language standard to use in the generated test project.
The “try_compile()” command source file signature now honors language standard variables like “CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD”. See policy “CMP0067”.
A “BUILD_RPATH” target property and corresponding “CMAKE_BUILD_RPATH” variable were added to support custom “RPATH” locations to be added to binaries in the build tree. The “COMPILE_FLAGS” source file property learned to support “generator expressions”.
A new generator expression “$” was added. It resolves to the true-value if the condition is “1” and resolves to the false-value if the condition is “0”. The “Compile Features” functionality is now aware of features supported by Intel C++ compilers versions 12.1 through 17.0 on UNIX and Windows platforms.
The Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above now place per- source file flags after target-wide flags when they are classified as raw flags with no project file setting (“AdditionalOptions”). This behavior is more consistent with the ordering of flags produced by other generators, and allows flags on more-specific properties (per-source) to override those on more general ones (per-target). The precompiled Windows binary MSI package provided on “cmake.org” now records the installation directory in the Windows Registry under the key “HKLMSoftwareKitwareCMake” with a value named “InstallDir”.

New in CMake 3.8.0 RC 3 (Mar 26, 2017)

New in CMake 3.8.0 RC 2 (Mar 3, 2017)

FindGTK2: handle old libsigc++ versions
FindCUDA: Fix PTX selection with multiple architectures
FindVulkan: Update for LunarG SDK import library location on Windows
Utilities/Sphinx: Port qthelp css workaround to Sphinx 1.4
Help: Fix cmake code block warnings produced by Sphinx 1.4
Help: Improve execute_process ENCODING option documentation
execute_process: Restore no-decoding default behavior
clang-format.bash: Format CUDA source files too
Modules: Run clang-format on CUDA code
Tests: Run clang-format on CUDA code
Tests: Add case for CUDA with C but not C++
CUDA: Link to standard system libraries when linking as CUDA
CUDA: Do not use non-existent -Os flag for nvcc
CUDA: Fix test cases to not override CUDA flags
CUDA: Fix default compiler flags on Windows
ctest_update: Fix svn log and external loading
FindHDF5: Restore HDF5__INCLUDE_DIR advanced cache entry mark
FindHDF5: Fix search for language-specific header file
Windows: Fix inconsistent behavior on changes to case of path to cmake
CUDA: Fix boolean interpretation of CUDA_SEPARABLE_COMPILATION
ExternalProject: Clarify documented role of INSTALL_DIR
VS2017: If Win 8.1 SDK is not available, use Win 10 SDK
Define a custom Git attribute to mark source files as generated
Define a custom Git attribute to mark sources using our C style
clang-format.bash: Use Git attributes to mark files for formatting
VS: Fix .vcxproj indentation
Revert "Ninja: Use full path for all source files"
Fix COMPILE_PDB_NAME when used on an OBJECT library
ExternalProject: Run git checkout with -- to clarify arguments
cmFindLibraryCommand: Refactor AddArchitecturePath logic
find_library: Skip 'lib => lib' searches if one symlinks the other
cmOrderDirectories: Factor out implicit directory check
cmOrderDirectories: Consider symlinks when checking implicit directories
Tests: Add case for RPATH exclusion of symlinks to implicit directories
Utilities/Sphinx: Port cmake extension to Sphinx 1.4
FindJNI: Add jvm paths for Arch Linux
Help: Clarify 'make-style' variable references in cmake-language(7)
VS: add VS_CSHARP_ sourcefile property
VS: add CSharpUtilities module
VS: add test for VS_CSHARP_* source file property
KWIML: Add -Wno-format-security to tolerate -Werror=format-security
CUDA: Detect the toolkit include directories
Autogen: Fix headers not skipped
ExternalProject: Clarify documented role of INSTALL_COMMAND

New in CMake 3.8.0 RC 1 (Feb 7, 2017)

NEW FEATURES:
C#:
CMake learned to support CSharp (C#) as a first-class language that can be enabled via the project() and enable_language() commands. It is currently supported by the Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above.
C# assemblies and programs can be added just like common C++ targets using the add_library() and add_executable() commands. References between C# targets in the same source tree may be specified by target_link_libraries() like for C++. References to system or 3rd-party assemblies may be specified by the target properties VS_DOTNET_REFERENCE_ and VS_DOTNET_REFERENCES.
More fine tuning of C# targets may be done using target and source file properties. Specifically the target properties related to Visual Studio (VS_*) are worth a look (for setting toolset versions, root namespaces, assembly icons, ...).
Auto-linking in .csproj files: In C#/.NET development with Visual Studio there are a number of visual editors used which generate code. Both the generated files and the ones edited with the UI are connected in the .csproj file using tags. If CMake finds within a C# project any source file with extension .Designer.cs or .xaml.cs, it checks sibling files with extension .xaml, .settings, .resx or .cs and establishes the dependency connection.
CUDA:
CMake learned to support CUDA as a first-class language that can be enabled via the project() and enable_language() commands.
CUDA is currently supported by the Makefile Generators and the Ninja generator on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Support for the Visual Studio IDE is under development but not included in this release.
The NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit compiler (nvcc) is supported.
C & C++:
The Compile Features functionality now offers meta-features that request compiler modes for specific language standard levels (e.g. cxx_std_11). See CMAKE_C_KNOWN_FEATURES and CMAKE_CXX_KNOWN_FEATURES.
The Compile Features functionality is now aware of C++ 17. No specific features are yet enumerated besides the cxx_std_17 meta-feature.
The Compile Features functionality is now aware of the availability of C99 in gcc since version 3.4.
Platforms:
A new minimal platform file for Fuchsia was added.
Generators:
The CodeBlocks extra generator may now be used to generate with NMake Makefiles JOM.
The Visual Studio Generators for VS 2013 and above learned to support a host=x64 option in the CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET value (e.g. via the cmake(1) -T option) to request use of a VS 64-bit toolchain on 64-bit hosts.
The Visual Studio Generators learned to treat files passed to target_link_libraries() whose names end in .targets as MSBuild “targets” files to be imported into generated project files.
Commands:
The add_custom_command() and add_custom_target() commands learned the option COMMAND_EXPAND_LISTS which causes lists in the COMMAND argument to be expanded, including lists created by generator expressions.
The execute_process() command gained an ENCODING option to specify on Windows which encoding is used for output from child process.
The math(EXPR) command gained support for unary + and - operators.
The source_group() command gained TREE and PREFIX options to add groups following source tree directory structure.
The string(TIMESTAMP) command learned to treat %% as a way to encode plain %.
The string(TIMESTAMP) command will now honor the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable and use its value instead of the current time.
The try_compile() command source file signature gained new options to specify the language standard to use in the generated test project.
The try_compile() command source file signature now honors language standard variables like CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD. See policy CMP0067.
Variables:
A CMAKE_CODELITE_USE_TARGETS variable was added to tell the CodeLite extra generator to change the generated project to have target-centric organization. The build, rebuild, and clean operations within CodeLite then work on a selected target rather than the whole workspace. (Note that the Ninja clean operation on a target includes its dependencies, though.)
The CMAKE_SUBLIME_TEXT_2_ENV_SETTINGS variable was added to tell the Sublime Text 2 extra generator to place specified environment variables in the generated .sublime-project.
The CMAKE_SUBLIME_TEXT_2_EXCLUDE_BUILD_TREE variable was added to tell the Sublime Text 2 extra generator whether to exclude the build tree from the .sublime-project when it is inside the source tree.
A CMAKE_VS_INCLUDE_PACKAGE_TO_DEFAULT_BUILD variable was added to tell Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above to include the PACKAGE target in the default build, similar to the existing CMAKE_VS_INCLUDE_INSTALL_TO_DEFAULT_BUILD variable for the INSTALL target.
Properties:
A BUILD_RPATH target property and corresponding CMAKE_BUILD_RPATH variable were added to support custom RPATH locations to be added to binaries in the build tree.
The COMPILE_FLAGS source file property learned to support generator expressions.
The FRAMEWORK target property may now also be applied to static libraries on Apple targets. It will result in a proper Framework but with a static library inside.
Imported Interface Libraries learned new IMPORTED_LIBNAME and IMPORTED_LIBNAME_ target properties to specify a link library name since interface libraries do not build their own library files.
A _CPPLINT target property and supporting CMAKE__CPPLINT variable were introduced to tell the Makefile Generators and the Ninja generator to run the cpplint style checker along with the compiler for C and CXX languages.
A MANUALLY_ADDED_DEPENDENCIES target property has been added. It provides a read-only list of dependencies that have been added with the add_dependencies() command.
The MAP_IMPORTED_CONFIG_ target property learned to interpret empty list elements as referring to the configuration-less imported location specified by IMPORTED_LOCATION.
The NO_SYSTEM_FROM_IMPORTED target property is now supported on Imported Interface Libraries.
New source file properties SKIP_AUTOMOC, SKIP_AUTOUIC, SKIP_AUTORCC, and SKIP_AUTOGEN were added to allow source files to be excluded from processing by AUTOMOC, AUTOUIC, and AUTORCC target properties.
A VS_COPY_TO_OUT_DIR source file property was added to tell Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above whether or not a file should e copied to the output directory.
A VS_DEBUGGER_WORKING_DIRECTORY target property was added to tell Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above what debugger working directory should be set for the target.
A VS_DOTNET_REFERENCES_COPY_LOCAL target property was added to specify whether to copy referenced assemblies to the output directory.
A VS_DOTNET_REFERENCE_ target property was added to tell Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above to add a .NET reference with a given hint path.
A VS_INCLUDE_IN_VSIX source file property was added to tell Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above whether to include the file in a Visual Studio extension package.
A VS_RESOURCE_GENERATOR source file property was added to give Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above a setting for the resource generator (C# only).
A VS_USER_PROPS target property was added to tell Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above to use a custom MSBuild user .props file.
A XCODE_EMIT_EFFECTIVE_PLATFORM_NAME global property was added to tell the Xcode generator whether to emit the EFFECTIVE_PLATFORM_NAME variable. This is useful when building with multiple SDKs like macosx and iphoneos in parallel.
New XCODE_PRODUCT_TYPE and XCODE_EXPLICIT_FILE_TYPE target properties were created to tell the Xcode generator to use custom values of the corresponding attributes for a target in the generated Xcode project.
Modules:
The ExternalData module learned to support multiple content links for one data file using different hashes, e.g. img.png.sha256 and img.png.sha1. This allows objects to be fetched from sources indexed by different hash algorithms.
The ExternalProject module gained the GIT_PROGRESS option to force Git to show progress when cloning repositories.
The ExternalProject module gained a GIT_CONFIG option to pass --config options to Git when cloning repositories.
The FeatureSummary module feature_summary() command now accepts a new QUIET_ON_EMPTY option that suppresses the output when the list of packages that belong to the selected category is empty.
The FeatureSummary module add_feature_info() command now accepts lists of dependencies for deciding whether a feature is enabled or not.
The package types accepted by the FeatureSummary module can now be tweaked by changing the FeatureSummary_PKG_TYPES, FeatureSummary_REQUIRED_PKG_TYPES and FeatureSummary_DEFAULT_PKG_TYPE global properties.
The FindOpenGL module now provides imported targets OpenGL::GL and OpenGL::GLU when the libraries are found.
The UseSWIG module gained a swig_add_library command to give more flexibility over the old swig_add_module command.
The UseSWIG module swig_add_source_to_module command learned a new SWIG_OUTFILE_DIR option to control the output file location (swig -o).
The WriteCompilerDetectionHeader module gained the ALLOW_UNKNOWN_COMPILERS and ALLOW_UNKNOWN_COMPILER_VERSIONS options that allow creation of headers that will work also with unknown or old compilers by simply assuming they do not support any of the requested features.
CTest:
The ctest_memcheck() command gained a DEFECT_COUNT option to capture the number of memory defects detected.
The ctest_memcheck() command learned to read the location of suppressions files for sanitizers from the CTEST_MEMORYCHECK_SUPPRESSIONS_FILE variable.
The ctest_memcheck() command learned to support LeakSanitizer independently from AddressSanitizer.
The ctest_update() command CDASH_UPLOAD signature was taught to honor the RETRY_COUNT, RETRY_DELAY, and QUIET options.
CPack:
The CPackIFWConfigureFile module was added to define a new cpack_ifw_configure_file() command to configure file templates prepared in QtIFW/SDK/Creator style.
The CPackIFW module cpack_ifw_configure_component() and cpack_ifw_configure_component_group() commands gained a new DEFAULT, VIRTUAL, FORCED_INSTALLATION, REQUIRES_ADMIN_RIGHTS, DISPLAY_NAME, UPDATE_TEXT, DESCRIPTION, RELEASE_DATE, AUTO_DEPEND_ON and TRANSLATIONS options to more specific configuration.
The CPackIFW module cpack_ifw_configure_component() command gained a new DEPENDENCIES alias for DEPENDS option.
The CPackIFW module cpack_ifw_configure_component_group() command gained a new DEPENDS option. The DEPENDENCIES alias also added.
The CPackIFW module cpack_ifw_configure_component() and cpack_ifw_configure_component_group() commands PRIORITY option now is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of CMake. Please use new SORTING_PRIORITY option instead.
The CPackIFW module gained new CPACK_IFW_PACKAGE_WATERMARK, CPACK_IFW_PACKAGE_BANNER, CPACK_IFW_PACKAGE_BACKGROUND, CPACK_IFW_PACKAGE_WIZARD_STYLE, CPACK_IFW_PACKAGE_WIZARD_DEFAULT_WIDTH, CPACK_IFW_PACKAGE_WIZARD_DEFAULT_HEIGHT, and CPACK_IFW_PACKAGE_TITLE_COLOR variables to customize a QtIFW installer look.
The CPackProductBuild module gained options to sign packages. See the variables CPACK_PRODUCTBUILD_IDENTITY_NAME, CPACK_PRODUCTBUILD_KEYCHAIN_PATH, CPACK_PKGBUILD_IDENTITY_NAME, and CPACK_PKGBUILD_KEYCHAIN_PATH.
The CPackRPM module learned to omit tags that are not supported by provided rpmbuild tool. If unsupported tags are set they are ignored and a developer warning is printed out.
The CPackRPM module learned to generate main component package which forces generation of a rpm for defined component without component suffix in filename and package name. See CPACK_RPM_MAIN_COMPONENT variable.
The CPackRPM module learned to generate a single debuginfo package on demand even if components packaging is used. See CPACK_RPM_DEBUGINFO_SINGLE_PACKAGE variable.
The CPackRPM module learned to support multiple directives per file when using CPACK_RPM_USER_FILELIST variable.
Other:
CMake functionality using cryptographic hashes now supports SHA-3 algorithms.
A new generator expression $ was added. It resolves to the true-value if the condition is 1 and resolves to the false-value if the condition is 0.
DEPRECATED AND REMOVED FEATURES:
The FeatureSummary module commands set_package_info(), set_feature_info(), print_enabled_features(), and print_disabled_features() are now deprecated.
The UseSWIG module swig_add_module command is now deprecated in favor of swig_add_library.
OTHER CHANGES:
If a command specified by the _CLANG_TIDY target property returns non-zero at build time this is now treated as an error instead of silently ignored.
The ctest_memcheck() command no longer automatically adds leak_check=1 to the options used by AddressSanitizer. The default behavior of AddressSanitizer is to run LeakSanitizer to check leaks unless leak_check=0.
The ctest_memcheck() command was fixed to correctly append extra sanitizer options read from the CTEST_MEMORYCHECK_SANITIZER_OPTIONS variable to the environment variables used internally by the sanitizers.
The FeatureSummary module set_package_properties() command no longer forces the package type to OPTIONAL when the type is not explicitly set.
The Compile Features functionality is now aware of features supported by Intel C++ compilers versions 12.1 through 17.0 on UNIX and Windows platforms.
Calls to the FindPkgConfig module pkg_check_modules() command following a successful call learned to re-evaluate the cached values for a given prefix after changes to the parameters to the command for that prefix.
When using AUTOMOC or AUTOUIC, generated moc_*, *.moc and ui_* are placed in the /_autogen/include directory which is automatically added to the target’s INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES. It is therefore not necessary anymore to have CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR in the target’s INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.
The Sublime Text 2 generator no longer runs the native build command (e.g. ninja or make) with verbose build output enabled.
The try_compile() command source file signature now honors the CMAKE_WARN_DEPRECATED variable value in the generated test project.
The Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above now place per-source file flags after target-wide flags when they are classified as raw flags with no project file setting (AdditionalOptions). This behavior is more consistent with the ordering of flags produced by other generators, and allows flags on more-specific properties (per-source) to override those on more general ones (per-target).
The precompiled Windows binary MSI package provided on cmake.org now records the installation directory in the Windows Registry under the key HKLMSoftwareKitwareCMake with a value named InstallDir.

New in CMake 3.7.2 (Jan 14, 2017)

New in CMake 3.7.1 (Dec 1, 2016)

New in CMake 3.7.0 (Nov 11, 2016)

New in CMake 3.7.0 RC 3 (Nov 5, 2016)

New in CMake 3.7.0 RC 2 (Oct 20, 2016)

New in CMake 3.7.0 RC 1 (Oct 5, 2016)

HIGHLIGHTS:
CMake now supports Cross Compiling for Android with simple toolchain files.
The “Ninja” generator learned to conditionally support Fortran when using a “ninja” tool that has the necessary features. See generator documentation for details.
The “if()” command gained new boolean comparison operations “LESS_EQUAL”, “GREATER_EQUAL”, “STRLESS_EQUAL”, “STRGREATER_EQUAL”, “VERSION_LESS_EQUAL”, and “VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL”.
The “try_compile()” command source file signature now honors configuration-specific flags (e.g. “CMAKE__FLAGS_DEBUG”) in the generated test project. Previously only the default such flags for the current toolchain were used. See policy “CMP0066”.
“Toolchain files” may now set “CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS_INIT”, “CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS_INIT”, and “CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS_INIT” variables to initialize the “CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS”, “CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS”, and “CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS” cache entries the first time a language is enabled in a build tree.
CTest now supports test fixtures through the new “FIXTURES_SETUP”, “FIXTURES_CLEANUP” and “FIXTURES_REQUIRED” test properties. When using regular expressions or “–rerun-failed” to limit the tests to be run, a fixture’s setup and cleanup tests will automatically be added to the execution set if any test requires that fixture.
We no longer provide Linux i386 binaries for download from “cmake.org” for new versions of CMake.
Vim support files “cmake-indent.vim”, “cmake-syntax.vim”, and “cmake-help.vim” have been removed in favor of the files now provided from the vim-cmake-syntax project.
Support for building CMake itself with some compilers was dropped (CMake still supports generating build systems for other projects using these compilers):
Visual Studio 7.1 and 2005 — superseded by VS 2008 and above
MinGW.org mingw32 — superseded by MSYS2 mingw32 and mingw64
NEW FEATURES:
Platforms:
CMake now supports Cross Compiling for Android with simple toolchain files.
The Clang compiler is now supported on AIX.
Generators:
The "Ninja" generator learned to conditionally support Fortran when using a "ninja" tool that has the necessary features. See generator documentation for details.
The "Ninja" generator learned to produce phony targets of the form "sub/dir/{test,install,package}" to drive the build of a subdirectory installation, test or packaging target. This is equivalent to "cd sub/dir; make {test,install,package}" with Makefile Generators.
The "Visual Studio 15" generator was added. This is experimental and based on Preview 4 because this version of VS has not been released.
Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above learned to place ".natvis" source files into VS project files properly.
The "Xcode" generator's rudimentary Swift language support learned to honor a new "CMAKE_Swift_LANGUAGE_VERSION" variable to tell Xcode what version of Swift is used by the source.
The "CodeLite" generator gained a new "CMAKE_CODELITE_USE_TARGETS" option to change project creation from projects to targets.
Commands:
The "add_custom_command()" command gained a new "DEPFILE" option that works with the "Ninja" generator to provide implicit dependency information to the build tool.
The "cmake_parse_arguments()" command gained a new "PARSE_ARGV" mode to read arguments directly from "ARGC" and "ARGV#" variables inside a "function()" body.
The "export()" command gained an "ANDROID_MK" option to generate "Android.mk" files referencing CMake-built libraries as prebuilts for the Android NDK build system.
The "file(DOWNLOAD)" and "file(UPLOAD)" commands gained "HTTPHEADER " and "USERPWD :" options.
The "find_library()" and "find_package()" commands learned to search in "lib32/" directories when the build targets a 32-bit architecture. See the "FIND_LIBRARY_USE_LIB32_PATHS" global property.
The "find_package()" command gained the possibility of sorting compatible libraries by "NAME" or by "NATURAL" sorting by setting the two new variables "CMAKE_FIND_PACKAGE_SORT_ORDER" and "CMAKE_FIND_PACKAGE_SORT_DIRECTION".
The "if()" command gained new boolean comparison operations "LESS_EQUAL", "GREATER_EQUAL", "STRLESS_EQUAL", "STRGREATER_EQUAL", "VERSION_LESS_EQUAL", and "VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL".
The "install()" command gained an "EXPORT_ANDROID_MK" subcommand to install "Android.mk" files referencing installed libraries as prebuilts for the Android NDK build system.
The "string(TIMESTAMP)" and "file(TIMESTAMP)" commands gained support for the "%a" and "%b" placeholders. These are the abbreviated weekday and month names.
The "try_compile()" command source file signature now honors configuration-specific flags (e.g. "CMAKE__FLAGS_DEBUG") in the generated test project. Previously only the default such flags for the current toolchain were used. See policy "CMP0066".
Variables:
Variable "CMAKE_FIND_PACKAGE_SORT_ORDER" was added to control the sorting mode of the "find_package()" command.
Variable "CMAKE_FIND_PACKAGE_SORT_DIRECTION" was added to control the sorting direction the "find_package()" command.
"Toolchain files" may now set a "CMAKE__FLAGS_INIT" variable to initialize the "CMAKE__FLAGS" cache entry the first time a language is enabled in a build tree.
"Toolchain files" may now set "CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS_INIT", "CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS_INIT", and "CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS_INIT" variables to initialize the "CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS", "CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS", and "CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS" cache entries the first time a language is enabled in a build tree.
Properties:
On Apple platforms the "BUNDLE_EXTENSION" target property now also applies to Frameworks and App Bundles.
A "BINARY_DIR" directory property was added to get the absolute path to the binary directory corresponding to the source directory on which the property is read.
A "BUILDSYSTEM_TARGETS" directory property was added to get the list of logical buildsystem target names added by the project in a directory.
A "LINK_WHAT_YOU_USE" target property and supporting "CMAKE_LINK_WHAT_YOU_USE" variable were introduced to detect (on UNIX) shared libraries that are linked but not needed by running "ldd -r -u".
A "SOURCE_DIR" directory property was added to get the absolute path to the source directory associated with a directory.
A "SUBDIRECTORIES" directory property was added to get the list of subdirectories added by a project in a directory.
A "VS_SDK_REFERENCES" target property was added to tell Visual Studio Generators to reference the named SDKs.
A "VS_TOOL_OVERRIDE" source file property was created to tell Visual Studio Generators what tool to use for a source file.
The "WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS" target property now applies to executable targets with the "ENABLE_EXPORTS" property set.
A "XCODE_FILE_ATTRIBUTES" source file property was added to tell the "Xcode" generator to generate custom content in the Xcode project attributes for the file.
Modules:
An "AndroidTestUtilities" module was added to manage transfer of test data to an Android device.
The "CheckFortranSourceCompiles" module macro "CHECK_Fortran_SOURCE_COMPILES" gained a "SRC_EXT" option to specify a custom test Fortran source file extension.
The "ExternalProject" module gained "HTTP_USERNAME" and "HTTP_PASSWORD" options to set http download credentials.
The "ExternalProject" module gained a "HTTP_HEADER" option to add http download headers.
The "FindBISON" module "BISON_TARGET" macro learned a new "REPORT_FILE" option to specify the bison "--report-file=" option.
The "FindBZip2" module now provides imported targets.
A "FindICU" module was introduced to find the International Components for Unicode (ICU) libraries and programs.
The "FindMatlab" module learned to find a SIMULINK component.
The "FindOpenCL" module now provides imported targets.
The "FindOpenMP" module learned to detect the OpenMP version (specification date) from the compiler.
A "FindVulkan" module was added.
The "GenerateExportHeader" module learned a new "CUSTOM_CONTENT_FROM_VARIABLE" option to specify a variable containing custom content for inclusion in the generated header.
The "GNUInstallDirs" module gained a new "GNUInstallDirs_get_absolute_install_dir()" command.
The "UseJava" module gained APIs to "export" jar targets for use by external CMake projects. See the "install_jar_exports" and "export_jars" functions.
CTest:
CTest now supports test fixtures through the new "FIXTURES_SETUP", "FIXTURES_CLEANUP" and "FIXTURES_REQUIRED" test properties. When using regular expressions or "--rerun-failed" to limit the tests to be run, a fixture's setup and cleanup tests will automatically be added to the execution set if any test requires that fixture.
The "ctest_configure()", "ctest_build()", "ctest_test()", "ctest_coverage()", and "ctest_upload()" commands gained a new "CAPTURE_CMAKE_ERROR" option to capture any errors that occur as the commands run into a variable and avoid affecting the return code of the "ctest(1)" process.
CPack:
CPack gained a "productbuild" generator on OS X, configured by the "CPackProductBuild" module.
CPack gained a new "CPACK_PACKAGE_CHECKSUM" variable to enable generation of a checksum file for each package file.
The "CPackDeb" module learned to support long file names when archive format is set to GNU tar. See "CPACK_DEBIAN_ARCHIVE_TYPE"
The "CPackIFW" module gained a new "cpack_ifw_add_package_resources()" command to include additional resources in the installer binary.
The "CPackIFW" module "cpack_ifw_configure_component()" and "cpack_ifw_configure_component_group()" commands gained a new "USER_INTERFACES" option to add a list of additonal pages to the IFW installer.
The "CPackRPM" module learned to generate debuginfo packages on demand. See "CPACK_RPM_DEBUGINFO_PACKAGE" and its per component version.
The "CPackRPM" module learned to generate source rpm (SRPM) packages on demand. See "CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_SOURCES", "CPACK_RPM_SOURCE_PKG_BUILD_PARAMS" and "CPACK_RPM_SOURCE_PKG_PACKAGING_INSTALL_PREFIX".
The CPack NSIS generator now supports "CPACK_NSIS__INSTALL_DIRECTORY". This can be used to set component specific installation directories.
The CPack WIX generator now supports "CPACK_WIX_SKIP_PROGRAM_FOLDER" to allow specification of a custom absolute installation prefix outside of the ProgramFiles folders.
The CPack WIX generator now supports "CPACK_COMPONENT__DISABLED". This can be used to deselect a component from being installed by default.
The CPack WIX generator now supports "CPACK_WIX_PATCH_FILE" fragments for Feature elements.
The CPack WIX generator now supports "CPACK_WIX_ROOT_FEATURE_TITLE" and "CPACK_WIX_ROOT_FEATURE_DESCRIPTION" to allow the specification of a custom title and description for the root feature element.
Other:
"cmake(1)" gained a "-E capabilities" option to provide a machine- readable (JSON) description of the capabilities of the cmake tool (available generators, etc.).
A new "cmake-server(7)" mode was added to provide semantic information about a CMake-generated buildsystem to clients through a JSON protocol. Currently all protocols are experimental and subject to change.
The "cmake(1)" command learned a "--trace-source=" option.
"ccmake(1)" learned to support vim-like navigation bindings.
"cmake-gui(1)" gained a button to open the generated project file for Visual Studio Generators and the "Xcode" generator.
Deprecated and Removed Features:
We no longer provide Linux i386 binaries for download from "cmake.org" for new versions of CMake.
Vim support files "cmake-indent.vim", "cmake-syntax.vim", and "cmake-help.vim" have been removed in favor of the files now provided from the vim-cmake-syntax project.
Support for building CMake itself with some compilers was dropped (CMake still supports generating build systems for other projects using these compilers):
Visual Studio 7.1 and 2005 -- superseded by VS 2008 and above
MinGW.org mingw32 -- superseded by MSYS2 mingw32 and mingw64
Other Changes:
The Fortran dependency scanner learned to support the syntax of Fortran Submodules.
Vim support files "indent/cmake.vim" and "syntax/cmake.vim" from the vim-cmake-syntax project are now distributed with CMake.

New in CMake 3.6.2 (Sep 8, 2016)

New in CMake 3.6.1 (Jul 22, 2016)

New in CMake 3.6.0 (Jul 8, 2016)

New in CMake 3.6.0 RC 4 (Jun 29, 2016)

New in CMake 3.6.0 RC 3 (Jun 22, 2016)

New in CMake 3.6.0 RC 2 (Jun 13, 2016)

New in CMake 3.6.0 RC 1 (Jun 3, 2016)

New in CMake 3.5.2 (Apr 15, 2016)

New in CMake 3.5.1 (Mar 25, 2016)

New in CMake 3.5.0 (Mar 8, 2016)

New in CMake 3.5.0 RC 1 (Feb 3, 2016)

New in CMake 3.4.2 (Jan 22, 2016)

New in CMake 3.4.1 (Dec 21, 2015)

New in CMake 3.4.0 (Nov 17, 2015)

New in CMake 3.4.0 RC 1 (Oct 15, 2015)

0015791: [CCMake] Error configuring 3D Slicer with CMake 3.4.0-rc1.
0015787: [CMake] Please add note about change to 3.4 release notes.
0015662: [CMake] Add support for Windows/Windows Phone SDKs with Visual Studio 2015.
0015774: [CTest] CTest result submission over http fails to set Content-Type header which runs afoul of ModSecurity rules.
0013009: [CTest] CPack DEB generator ignores top-level directories which do not contain a file.
0008767: [CPack] CPack tar generators ignore empty directories (Domen Vrankar) resolved.
0015775: [CMake] Document that SHARED libraries must export at least one symbol.
0015666: Ninja may unnecessarily relink on windows (Nils Gladitz) resolved.
0015729: [CMake] ninja: TARGET_OBJECTS not working, ObjectDirectory and ObjectPathMax used before they are set.
0015686: [CMake] Windows phone projects targeting Windows 10 differ from Windows Phone 8.1 projects.
0015670: [CMake] Add support for setting "Windows target platform version" in VS2015.
0015747: [CMake] Regression: -Wno-dev doesn't work any more in CMake 3.4.
0015757: [CMake] Including a project from parent subdirectory causes CMake to produce wrong build files for Ninja generator.
0015590: [Modules] ExternalProject inits all submodules.
0014905: [CMake] FindThreads doesn't clearly express it requires C language enabled.
0015723: [CMake] Regression: FindCUDA fails for C++ only projects in CMake 3.3.1 due find_package(Threads), while it works well in CMake 3.2.3.
0015754: [CMake] Visual Studio incremental build not working properly when target names start with a capital letter.
0015748: [CMake] Regression: get_target_property dies if a source file does not exist.
0015596: CMakeClDeps.cmake doesn't work if CC contains arguments.
0015674: [CMake] Windows: Correctly determine Windows version for CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_VERSION.
0015740: [CMake] NetBSD: curses compatibility.
0015739: [CMake] NetBSD: curses compatibility.
0015738: [CMake] printw() should use format string.
0015741: [CMake] GCC < 4.9 does not have full C11 support.
0012506: [CMake] install( TARGET ) does not work for iOS targets.
0015608: [CMake] automoc fails when enabling autorcc.
0015642: Source file properties lost if case of drive letter changes.
0015644: [CMake] AUTORCC not generating files with Qt 5.1 resolved.
0015736: [Modules] FeatureTesting unreliable.
0015527: [CMake] FindHDF5.cmake: Make it possible to require parallel builds resolved.
0015737: [CMake] Use of redhat-hardened-ld breaks CMake's Fortran compiler library detection for gfortran.
0015735: [CMake] Non-ascii characters in POST_BUILD commands truncated by CMake (if Ninja generator used) on Linux.
0015727: [CMake] Support C compiler features for GNU on windows.
0015714: [Modules] Support for mips64, mips64el, mipsn32, mipsn32el in FindJNI resolved.
0015597: [CMake] Issues with the 'Eclipse CDT4 NMake Makefiles' Generator.
0015710: [Modules] Does not find JNI on x32.
0015693: [CCMake] include_directories(BEFORE not following BEFORE option.
0015669: [Modules] XCTest for iOS target has incorrect TEST_HOST.
0015705: [CMake] Sets SONAME for modules.
0015697: [CMake] CUDA separable compilation intermediate file doesn't get created resolved.
0013685: [CMake] No way to control object file suffix for Object Libraries resolved.
0015696: [CPack] cpack preinstall of subdirectory no longer works.
0015464: [CMake] target_include_directories(tgt SYSTEM PUBLIC foo) adds include path with -I instead of -isystem.
0015640: [CMake] CMake converts generator from Visual Studio 9 2008 to Visual Studio 10 2010 if ZERO_CHECK fails.
0014833: [CMake] FindProtobuf module under Windows doesn't support 64-bit builds.
0015656: [CPack] pls. add CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_CONFLICTS.
0012062: [CPack] CPackDeb: The EXTRA control files may not be specified on a per-component basis.
0014796: [CMake] LINK_DEPENDS should work with Ninja backend resolved.
0013351: [Modules] GetPrerequisites.cmake doesn't catch errors from dumpbin resolved.
0015664: [CMake] CMake detects the wrong version for the C and C++ Cray Compiler.
0015673: [CMake] CMAKE_C_COMPILER is used to link a CXX shared library on Solaris.
0015657: [CMake] cmTarget::GetOutputInfo called for mytarget which has type UTILITY (CMake Internal Error).
0015651: [Documentation] Missing information in documentation about creation OS X/iOS Frameworks resolved.
0015648: [Modules] FindXercesC.cmake does not work on Windows .
0011240: [CMake] VS 2010 Win64 does not correctly set /MACHINE:x64 in the solution project files resolved.
0015521: [CMake] cmake-mode.el does not derive from prog-mode..
0015620: [CMake] Ninja generator triggers race condition in Borland bcc32 linker causing intermittent build failure.
0015609: [CMake] cmake --build fails with MSBuild.
0015610: [CTest] ctest_update can fail without returning -1 as RETURN_VALUE.
0015600: [CTest] CTest output redirection doesn't respect the order.
0013700: [CPack] CPack fails from fakeroot (Raffi Enficiaud) closed.
0015742: [Documentation] string(REGEX MATCH) and string(REGEX MATCHALL) concatenate arguments (Brad King) closed.

New in CMake 3.3.1 (Aug 17, 2015)

New in CMake 3.3.0 RC 2 (Jun 12, 2015)

Highlights:
The "if()" command learned a new "IN_LIST" operator that evaluates to true if a given element is contained in a named list.
The "add_dependencies()" command learned to allow dependencies to be added to *interface libraries*. Dependencies added to an interface library are followed transitively in its place since the target itself does not build.
The "find_library()", "find_path()", and "find_file()" commands now search in installation prefixes derived from the "PATH" environment variable.
The "_VISIBILITY_PRESET" and "VISIBILITY_INLINES_HIDDEN" target properties now affect compilation in sources of all target types. See policy "CMP0063".
A "_INCLUDE_WHAT_YOU_USE" target property and supporting "CMAKE__INCLUDE_WHAT_YOU_USE" variable were introduced to tell the *Makefile Generators* and the "Ninja" generator to run "include- what-you-use" along with the compiler for "C" and "CXX" languages.
Fixed issues:
0015409: [Modules] FindOpenSSL does not find correct libraries with MinGW (Brad King) resolved.
0015605: [Documentation] Mention TARGET_FILE for COMMAND option of add_custom_command (Brad King) resolved.
0015595: [Modules] FindPkgConfig does not use the CMAKE_FRAMEWORK_PATH and CMAKE_APPBUNDLE_PATH cache variables (Daniele E. Domenichelli) resolved.
0015594: [Documentation] Fix a bug in cmake-compile-features(7) manual : Replace target_link_libraries() with target_include_directories() resolved.
0015589: [CMake] Crash when fetching larger data file with External Data on Windows (Brad King) resolved.
0015583: [CMake] Windows-Intel-Fortran.cmake does not disable optimization in CMAKE_Fortran_FLAGS_DEBUG_INIT (Brad King) resolved.
0015576: [CMake] cannot build CMake on old versions of HP-UX IA64 (Brad King) resolved.
0015556: [CMake] CMAKE__VISIBILITY_PRESET not used when compiling static libraries (Brad King) resolved.
0015584: [CMake] cmake -E does not allow to create zip files (Nils Gladitz) resolved.
0015577: [CMake] The 'project' command overwrites CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES. (Brad King) resolved.
0015567: [CMake] "LOG_CONFIGURE 1" breaks ExternalProject_Add with empty CONFIGURE_COMMAND (Daniele E. Domenichelli) resolved.
0015573: Install links for command line fails always (Brad King) resolved.
0015575: [Documentation] Ambiguous documentation for how to define a (cached) variable in cmake from command line resolved.
0015571: [Modules] CheckTypeSize causes a CMP0054 warning (Rolf Eike Beer) resolved.
0011944: [CPack] CPackDeb: Support dependencies between components/Debian packages (Raffi Enficiaud) resolved.
0013231: [CPack] CPackDeb incorrectly "leaks" Debian dependencies across components (Raffi Enficiaud) resolved.
0013488: [CPack] Patch for CPack Debian generator (fix to the auto-dependecy support via dpkg-shlibdeps) (Raffi Enficiaud) resolved.
0008207: [Modules] FindMatlab is not flexible enough patch included (Raffi Enficiaud) resolved.
0015523: [CMake] ninja AUTORCC with AUTOGEN_TARGET_DEPENDS generated resources (Brad King) resolved.
0015566: [CMake] Some tests fail when source and build tree are under /usr/local resolved.
0015568: [Modules] Bashism in Squish4RunTestCase.sh resolved.
0015564: [CMake] MIPS is a CPU (fix mipsel support) (Brad King) resolved.
0015565: [Modules] Add support for openjdk 8 resolved.
0015439: [CMake] ninja: no possibility to control type of path delimiter and line break for linker response file (Brad King) resolved.
0015560: [CMake] EXTERNALPROJECT_ADD with missing SOURCE_DIR gives unclear error (Brad King) resolved.
0015559: [Documentation] ctest_test & others missing default value documentation for BUILD parameter (Brad King) resolved.
0015553: [Modules] FindGTest.cmake doesn't handle all spaces in TEST / TEST_F macro resolved.
0015545: [CMake] Add support for passing sphinx options (Brad King) resolved.
0015529: [CMake] enhance if() to support list (Nils Gladitz) resolved.
0015542: [CMake] RunCMake tests fail when run with MAKEFLAGS='--jobserver-fds=' in environment (Brad King) resolved.
0015543: [CMake] Typo in Modules/CPack.cmake (Brad King) resolved.
0015540: [Modules] FindwxWidgets does not find wxWidgets 3.0 on Fedora (Brad King) resolved.
0015539: [CMake] Clarify documentation of LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY for MODULE resolved.
0015533: [CMake] CMake documentation for CTEST_USE_LAUNCHERS wrongly states it only works with Makefile generator: it also works with Ninja resolved.
0015535: [CMake] cmake generates bad -F option for a 9 character include directory on OS X (Brad King) resolved.
0015531: [Modules] InstallRequiredSystemLibraries misses MBCS MFC libraries resolved.
0013503: [CMake] CMake fails with Visual Studio generator if CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE is defined empty (Brad King) resolved.
0015526: [Modules] check_c_compiler_flag does not recognize some Clang messages (Brad King) resolved.
0015287: [CMake] ExternalProject commands do not support generator expressions resolved.
0014660: [CPack] File tree builder is too greedy with 'sed' (Domen Vrankar) resolved.
0015016: [Modules] FindCUDA creates intermediate objects in wrong place when CUDA_SEPARABLE_COMPILATION is ON. (James Bigler) resolved.
0015459: [CMake] autogen broken for ninja generator (Brad King) resolved.
0015518: [CMake] PDB_NAME documentation doesn't mention that it uses OUTPUT_NAME if defined (Brad King) resolved.
0015412: [CMake] FPHSA should set ExactCase_FOUND variable resolved.
0015352: [CMake] FPHSA: Document the kind of variable that should be given to REQUIRED_VARS (Brad King) resolved.
0015508: [Modules] UseSWIG->SWIG_ADD_MODULE doesn't correctly grab module name from source file resolved.
0014680: [CMake] Generating project on VMware workstation mounted shared folder outputs lots of warnings/errors (Brad King) resolved.
0011258: [CMake] VS 2010 CMake plugin is broken (Brad King) resolved.
0015356: [CMake] CodeBlocks: add target to which a file belongs to (Nils Gladitz) resolved.
0015512: [CTest] Fix CTEST_GIT_UPDATE_CUSTOM documentation resolved.
0015500: [Modules] FindMatlab does not look for R2014b and R2015a (Raffi Enficiaud) resolved.
0015422: [CMake] cmake --help should be explicit about how to specify architecture. (Brad King) resolved.
0015474: [CMake] The "Unix Makefiles" generator should use .DELETE_ON_ERROR (Brad King) resolved.
0015494: [CMake] _cmake_feature_test_cxx_generalized_initializers present in MSVC 18.0.31101.1 (Brad King) resolved.
0015493: [CMake] incorrect file parsing, if it has a BOM-header (Brad King) resolved.
0015482: [CMake] CUDA Support Static Linked Binaries. (James Bigler) resolved.
0015489: [CMakeSetup] CMake.ELF test fails when sources are read-only (Brad King) resolved.
0015209: [CPack] RPM generation chokes on directory symlinks with latest rpmbuild (Domen Vrankar) resolved.
0015483: [CMake] CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM not managed correctly with CMake/CPack resolved.
0015476: [CPack] WiX packages not created with files that contain special characters. (Nils Gladitz) resolved.
0014677: [CPack] cpack gives archive_read_disk_entry_from_file: Can't lstat (Clinton Stimpson) resolved.
0015414: [CMake] Consider add_dependencies for INTERFACE libraries. (Brad King) resolved.
0014736: [CMake] Xcode warning due to set ARCHS (CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES) variable in project (Brad King) resolved.
0015434: [CMake] Multiple add_custom_command with the same MAIN_DEPENDENCY causes duplicate rule invokations (Nils Gladitz) resolved.
0015475: [CPack] Fails to build against external Expat 2.1.0 with Visual Studio 2013 (Nils Gladitz) resolved.
0015288: [CMake] Add XCTest support to Xcode generator (Gregor Jasny) resolved.
0015460: [CMake] PGI Fortran compiler does not recognise -fPIE resolved.
0014655: [CMake] Setting CMAKE_JAVA_TARGET_OUTPUT_DIR does not set the output for NMake type generator resolved.
0015416: [CMake] AutogenInfo.cmake broken when Modules/AutogenInfo.cmake.in is read-only resolved.
0015443: [CMake] Unable to use target_compile_features with MinGW-w64 (Brad King) resolved.
0015454: [CMake] Ninja generator should not generate phony commands with cyclic dependency (Brad King) resolved.
0014641: [CMake] FindMatlab.cmake is outdated/broken (Raffi Enficiaud) resolved.
0015446: [CTest] In verbose mode, display env vars that were explicitly set for each test (Zach Mullen) resolved.
0014857: [CMake] Allow COMPILE_OPTIONS to vary by source file language (Stephen Kelly) resolved.
0015437: [CMake] CMake 3.0 produces no console output when `cmake.exe --build .` is used. (Brad King) resolved.
0015381: [CMake] VS: Map Intel Fortran flags for OpenMP, Traceback, and FloatingPointExceptionHandling (Brad King) resolved.
0015436: [CMake] ninja generator breaks in symlinked directory (Brad King) resolved.
0015433: [CPack] CPack WIX creates incorrect .wixobj filenames for CPACK_WIX_EXTRA_SOURCES (Nils Gladitz) resolved.
0015364: [CMake] FindBoost.cmake does not find debug libraries if they are located in a different directory than the release libraries (Brad King) resolved.
0015428: [CMake] InstallRequiredSystemLibraries.cmake does not work when installing with component (Brad King) resolved.
0015380: [CMake] Misleading documentation in "Macro Argument Caveats" caveats (Daniele E. Domenichelli) resolved.
0015404: [CMake] cmake dos not set CMAKE_RC_FLAGS to include the platform defines like WIN32_WCE UNDER_CE etc. (Brad King) resolved.
0014552: [CMake] testCCompiler for WinCE ARMV4I and NMake generator fails with linker error (Brad King) resolved.
0014782: CPack fails when install file/dir path has '@' (Domen Vrankar) resolved.
0014890: [CPack] cpack, wix, It's not possible to patch directories (patch attached) (Nils Gladitz) resolved.
0015413: [CMake] CheckStructHasMember generates an uninitialized variable warning (Brad King) resolved.
0015370: [CMake] find_path, find_file, and find_library should get prefixes from PATH (Brad King) resolved.
0015372: [CMake] CMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER_VERSION is never set but FindOpenMP.cmake depends on it (Brad King) resolved.
0015185: [CPack] Allow for partial customization of WiX.template.in (Nils Gladitz) resolved.
0014317: [CMake] Configuration dependent install EXPORT (Brad King) resolved.
0012991: [CMake] Parallel build output mess (Brad King) resolved.
0014550: FindCUDA: source files shared between multiple targets results in linker using objects from both targets (James Bigler) closed.
0015499: cmake -E tar generated packages with long filenames can not be processed by PHP's PharData (Nils Gladitz) closed.
0015169: [CPack] CPackRPM: component-specific settings "fall through" to next component (Domen Vrankar) closed.
0015442: [CMake] Test 124 fails, space before colon in check_file_match_expected_relocation_path (Domen Vrankar) closed.

New in CMake 3.2.3 (Jun 2, 2015)

New in CMake 3.2.2 (Apr 15, 2015)

New in CMake 3.2.1 (Apr 15, 2015)

New in CMake 3.2.0 (Mar 13, 2015)

0015418: [CMake] Wrong encoding for generated .sln (Brad King) - resolved.
0015424: [CMake] Infinite loop in cmsys::SystemTools::CopyFileAlways (Brad King) - resolved.
0012083: [CMake] configure_file is not WARNING about ill-named parameter COPYONLY (Stephen Kelly) - resolved.
0011780: [CMake] CMake cannot building by VC6 with PSDK (Stephen Kelly) - resolved.
0015203: [Modules] CheckStructHasMember breaks on -Wunused-value (Brad King) - resolved.
0015408: [CMake] FindJNI missing JAVA_AWT_LIBRARY on JDK9 as jdk/lib/ is not included in JAVA_AWT_LIBRARY_DIRECTORIES (Brad King) - resolved.
0015403: [CMake] configure_file documentation could be more useful by specifing exactly where the files are generated (Brad King) - resolved.
0015411: Toolset is not updated/loaded correctly in CMake GUI (Brad King) - resolved.
0015324: [CMake] Xcode generator fails to re-configure existing build tree when CMake has moved (Brad King) - resolved.
0014211: [CPack] Default value for CPACK_NSIS_INSTALL_ROOT when installing 64 bit binaries is $PROGRAMFILES (Brad King) - resolved.
0015358: [CMake] Clarify try_compile and try_run documentation (Brad King) - resolved.
0015342: [CMake] [AUTOUI] Simplifiy wrong headers (Stephen Kelly) - resolved.
0015362: [CMake] Target property INTERFACE_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES doesn't seem to work (Stephen Kelly) - resolved.
0015253: [CMake] Ninja generator causes build failure for ASM files via NASM - resolved.
0014915: [CMake] cmake should support ninja's "console" pool - resolved.
0014892: [CMake] Ninja: wrong check for link with RSP_FILE (Ben Boeckel) - resolved.
0015368: [CMake] ExternalProject's BUILD_ALWAYS flag doesn't clear any existing build stamp file - resolved.
0015250: [Modules] cmake --find-package ignores multi-arch dir - resolved.
0014066: [CMake] Provided CMAKE_*_LINKER_FLAGS ignored during configuration step (Brad King) - resolved.
0015355: [CMake] cmake 3.1 doesn't know how to select CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11 on Mac OS (Stephen Kelly) - resolved.
0013880: [CMake] CMake GUI browser cannot handle Unicode paths (Clinton Stimpson) - resolved.
0012075: [CMake] generated .vcproj with wrong encoding (Clinton Stimpson) - resolved.
0012074: [CMake] "Could not copy from" On Windows 7 (Simplified Chinese) (Clinton Stimpson) - resolved.
0010180: [CMake] CMake won't generate Visual Studio projects with working paths that have Unicode charactors (Clinton Stimpson) - resolved.
0011900: [CMake] CMake fails to copy Visual Studio macro files into folder with non-latin symbols (Clinton Stimpson) - resolved.
0015075: [CMake] Wrong version found when overriding System OpenSSL with custom path (-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=) (Brad King) - resolved.
0015319: [CMake] Documentation clarification (Brad King) - resolved.
0015258: [CMake] 3.0.2-3.1rc2: _IMPORT_PREFIX always used even if absolute paths are in use - thus breaking build (Brad King) - resolved.
0015293: [CMake] find_library does not account for directory modification between calls (Brad King) - resolved.
0015182: [CMake] FindMPI.cmake fails to properly detect Intel MPI 5.0.1 (Chuck Atkins) - resolved.
0015284: [CMake] /wd flags in source COMPILE_FLAGS replace /wd flags from other sources in Visual Studio generator (Brad King) - resolved.
0015201: [CMake] Xcode generator is unusably slow on large projects (Ben Boeckel) - resolved.
0014963: [CMake] Add explicit specification of custom command side effect outputs (Brad King) - resolved.
0015268: [Modules] FindOpenGL.cmake incorrectly depends on X11 on Linux (Brad King) - resolved.
0014769: [CPack] CPackRPM: need CPACK_RPM__PACKAGE__REQUIRES - resolved.
0013176: [CPack] CPackRPM support for per-component summary/description (Domen Vrankar) - resolved.
0015224: [CMake] CMake unconditionally sets WARNING_CFLAGS for each targets overriding project-level option. (Brad King) - resolved.
0015074: [CMake] Qt 5: resources aren't being updated when CMAKE_AUTORCC is used (Stephen Kelly) - resolved.
0015206: [CMake] add_jar() in UseJava.cmake uses wrong classpath seperator when cross-compiling under Windows (Brad King) - resolved.
0015426: Segfault/assertion for invalid/unknown _STANDARD (Brad King) - closed.

New in CMake 3.2.0 RC 2 (Feb 28, 2015)

NEW FEATURES:
Syntax:
CMake learned to support unicode characters encoded as UTF-8 on Windows. This was already supported on platforms whose system APIs accept UTF-8 encoded strings. Unicode characters may now be used in CMake code, paths to source files, configured files such as .h.in files, and other files read and written by CMake. Note that because CMake interoperates with many other tools, there may still be some limitations when using certain unicode characters.
Commands:
The add_custom_command() and add_custom_target() commands learned a new BYPRODUCTS option to specify files produced as side effects of the custom commands. These are not outputs because they do not always have to be newer than inputs.The add_custom_command() and add_custom_target() commands learned a new USES_TERMINAL option to request that the command be given direct access to the terminal if possible. The Ninja generator will places such commands in the console pool. Build targets provided by CMake that are meant for individual interactive use, such as install, are now placed in this pool.A new continue() command was added that can be called inside loop contexts to end the current iteration and start the next one at the top of the loop block.The file(LOCK) subcommand was created to allow CMake processes to synchronize through file and directory locks.The file(STRINGS) now supports UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-32BE as ENCODING options.The install(EXPORT) command now works with an absolute DESTINATION even if targets in the export set are installed with a destination or usage requirements specified relative to the install prefix. The value of the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX variable is hard-coded into the installed export file as the base for relative references.The try_compile() command source file signature now honors link flags (e.g. CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS) in the generated test project. See policy CMP0056.The try_run() command learned to honor the LINK_LIBRARIES option just as try_compile() already does.The file(GENERATE) command now generates the output file with the same permissions as the input file if set.The file(GENERATE) command can now generate files which are used as source files for buildsystem targets. Generated files automatically get their GENERATED property set to TRUE.
Variables:
The CMAKE_MATCH_COUNT variable was introduced to record the number of matches made in the last regular expression matched in an if() command or a string() command.
Properties:
An ANDROID_API_MIN target property was introduced to specify the minimum version to be targeted by the toolchain.A VS_SHADER_FLAGS source file property was added to specify additional shader flags to .hlsl files, for the Visual Studio generators.
Modules:
The ExternalData module learned to support Custom Fetch Scripts. This allows projects to specify custom .cmake scripts for fetching data objects during the build.The ExternalProject module learned options to create independent external project step targets that do not depend on the builtin steps.The ExternalProject module ExternalProject_Add() command learned a new CMAKE_CACHE_DEFAULT_ARGS option to initialize cache values in the external project without setting them on future builds.The ExternalProject module ExternalProject_Add() command learned a new TEST_EXCLUDE_FROM_MAIN option to exclude tests from the main build.The ExternalProject module ExternalProject_Add() command learned a new UPDATE_DISCONNECTED option to avoid automatically updating the source tree checkout from version control.The FindCUDA module learned about the cusolver library in CUDA 7.0.The FindGit module learned to find the git command-line tool that comes with GitHub for Windows installed in user home directories.A FindGSL module was introduced to find the GNU Scientific Library.A FindIntl module was introduced to find the Gettext libintl library.The FindLATEX module learned to support components.The FindMPI module learned to find MS-MPI on Windows.The FindOpenSSL module now reports crypto and ssl libraries separately in OPENSSL_CRYPTO_LIBRARY and OPENSSL_SSL_LIBRARY, respectively, to allow applications to link to one without the other.The WriteCompilerDetectionHeader module learned to create a define for portability of the cxx_thread_local feature. The define expands to either the C++11 thread_local keyword, or a pre-standardization compiler-specific equivalent, as appropriate.The WriteCompilerDetectionHeader module learned to create multiple output files per compiler and per language, instead of creating one large file.
CTest:
The ctest_coverage() command learned to support Delphi coverage.The ctest_coverage() command learned to support Javascript coverage.The CTestCoverageCollectGCOV module was introduced as an alternative to the ctest_coverage() command for collecting gcov results for submission to CDash.
CPack:
The CPackRPM module learned options to set per-component descriptions and summaries. See the CPACK_RPM__PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION and CPACK_RPM__PACKAGE_SUMMARY variables.The CPackRPM module learned options to specify requirements for pre- and post-install scripts. See the CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_REQUIRES_PRE and CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_REQUIRES_POST variables.The CPackRPM module learned options to specify requirements for pre- and post-uninstall scripts. See the CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_REQUIRES_PREUN and CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_REQUIRES_POSTUN variables.The CPackRPM module learned a new CPACK_RPM__PACKAGE_PREFIX variable to specify a component-specific value to use instead of CPACK_PACKAGING_INSTALL_PREFIX.The CPackRPM module learned a new CPACK_RPM_RELOCATION_PATHS variable to specify multiple relocation prefixes for a single rpm package.
Other:
The cmake(1) -E tar command now supports creating .xz-compressed archives with the J flag.The cmake(1) -E tar command learned a new --files-from= option to specify file names using lines in a file to overcome command-line length limits.The cmake(1) -E tar command learned a new --mtime= option to specify the modification time recorded in tarball entries.The Compile Features functionality is now aware of features supported by more compilers, including: Apple Clang (AppleClang) for Xcode versions 4.4 though 6.1. GNU compiler versions 4.4 through 5.0 on UNIX and Apple (GNU). Microsoft Visual Studio (MSVC) for versions 2010 through 2015. Oracle SolarisStudio (SunPro) version 12.4.The AUTORCC feature now tracks files listed in .qrc files as dependencies. If an input file to the rcc tool is changed, the tool is automatically re-run.
NEW DIAGNOSTICS:
The break() command now rejects calls outside of a loop context or that pass arguments to the command. See policy CMP0055.
DEPRECATED AND REMOVED FEATURES:
Files written in the cmake-language(7), such as CMakeLists.txt or *.cmake files, are now expected to be encoded as UTF-8. If files are already ASCII, they will be compatible. If files were in a different encoding, including Latin 1, they will need to be converted.The FindOpenGL module no longer explicitly searches for any dependency on X11 libraries with the FindX11 module. Such dependencies should not need to be explicit. Applications using X11 APIs themselves should find and link to X11 libraries explicitly.The implementation of CMake now relies on some C++ compiler features which are not supported by some older compilers. As a result, those old compilers can no longer be used to build CMake itself. CMake continues to be able to generate Makefiles and project files for users of those old compilers however. Compilers known to no longer be capable of building CMake are: Visual Studio 6 and 7.0 – superseded by VisualStudio 7.1 and newer. GCC 2.95 – superseded by GCC 3 and newer compilers. Borland compilers – superseded by other Windows compilers. Compaq compilers – superseded by other compilers. SGI compilers – IRIX was dropped as a host platform.
OTHER CHANGES:
On Windows and OS X, commands supporting network communication via https, such as file(DOWNLOAD), file(UPLOAD), and ctest_submit(), now support SSL/TLS even when CMake is not built against OpenSSL. The Windows or OS X native SSL/TLS implementation is used by default. OS-configured certificate authorities will be trusted automatically.
On other platforms, when CMake is built with OpenSSL, these commands now search for OS-configured certificate authorities in a few /etc paths to be trusted automatically.
On OS X with Makefile and Ninja generators, when a compiler is found in /usr/bin it is now mapped to the corresponding compiler inside the Xcode application folder, if any. This allows such build trees to continue to work with their original compiler even when xcode-select switches to a different Xcode installation.
The Visual Studio generators now write solution and project files in UTF-8 instead of Windows-1252. Windows-1252 supported Latin 1 languages such as those found in North and South America and Western Europe. With UTF-8, additional languages are now supported.
The Xcode generator no longer requires a value for the CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM variable to be located up front. It now locates xcodebuild when needed at build time.
When building CMake itself using SolarisStudio 12, the default libCStd standard library is not sufficient to build CMake. The SolarisStudio distribution supports compiler options to use STLPort4 or libstdc++. An appropriate option to select the standard library is now added automatically when building CMake with SolarisStudio compilers.

New in CMake 3.1.3 (Feb 16, 2015)

0015324: [CMake] Xcode generator fails to re-configure existing build tree when CMake has moved (Brad King) resolved.
0014211: [CPack] Default value for CPACK_NSIS_INSTALL_ROOT when installing 64 bit binaries is $PROGRAMFILES (Brad King) resolved.
0015358: [CMake] Clarify try_compile and try_run documentation (Brad King) resolved.
0015342: [CMake] [AUTOUI] Simplifiy wrong headers (Stephen Kelly) resolved.
0015362: [CMake] Target property INTERFACE_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES doesn't seem to work (Stephen Kelly) resolved.
0015253: [CMake] Ninja generator causes build failure for ASM files via NASM resolved.
0014915: [CMake] cmake should support ninja's "console" pool resolved.
0014892: [CMake] Ninja: wrong check for link with RSP_FILE (Ben Boeckel) resolved.
0015368: [CMake] ExternalProject's BUILD_ALWAYS flag doesn't clear any existing build stamp file resolved.
0015116: [CMake] cmake add_custom_command issue with multiple output files (Brad King) resolved.
0015250: [Modules] cmake --find-package ignores multi-arch dir resolved.
0014066: [CMake] Provided CMAKE_*_LINKER_FLAGS ignored during configuration step (Brad King) resolved.
0015355: [CMake] cmake 3.1 doesn't know how to select CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11 on Mac OS (Stephen Kelly) resolved.
0013880: [CMake] CMake GUI browser cannot handle Unicode paths (Clinton Stimpson) resolved.
0012075: [CMake] generated .vcproj with wrong encoding (Clinton Stimpson) resolved.
0012074: [CMake] "Could not copy from" On Windows 7 (Simplified Chinese) (Clinton Stimpson) resolved.
0010180: [CMake] CMake won't generate Visual Studio projects with working paths that have Unicode charactors (Clinton Stimpson) resolved.
0011900: [CMake] CMake fails to copy Visual Studio macro files into folder with non-latin symbols (Clinton Stimpson) resolved.
0015075: [CMake] Wrong version found when overriding System OpenSSL with custom path (-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=) (Brad King) resolved.
0015319: [CMake] Documentation clarification (Brad King) resolved.
0015258: [CMake] 3.0.2-3.1rc2: _IMPORT_PREFIX always used even if absolute paths are in use thus breaking build (Brad King) resolved.
0015293: [CMake] find_library does not account for directory modification between calls (Brad King) resolved.
0015182: [CMake] FindMPI.cmake fails to properly detect Intel MPI 5.0.1 (Chuck Atkins) resolved.
0015284: [CMake] /wd flags in source COMPILE_FLAGS replace /wd flags from other sources in Visual Studio generator (Brad King) resolved.
0015201: [CMake] Xcode generator is unusably slow on large projects (Ben Boeckel) resolved.
0014963: [CMake] Add explicit specification of custom command side effect outputs (Brad King) resolved.
0015268: [Modules] FindOpenGL.cmake incorrectly depends on X11 on Linux (Brad King) resolved.
0014769: [CPack] CPackRPM: need CPACK_RPM__PACKAGE__REQUIRES resolved.
0013176: [CPack] CPackRPM support for per-component summary/description (Domen Vrankar) resolved.
0015224: [CMake] CMake unconditionally sets WARNING_CFLAGS for each targets overriding project-level option. (Brad King) resolved.
0015074: [CMake] Qt 5: resources aren't being updated when CMAKE_AUTORCC is used (Stephen Kelly) resolved.
0015206: [CMake] add_jar() in UseJava.cmake uses wrong classpath seperator when cross-compiling under Windows (Brad King) resolved.

New in CMake 3.1.2 (Feb 6, 2015)

New in CMake 3.1.1 (Jan 23, 2015)

Eclipse: Add org.eclipse.cdt.core.cnature to CXX projects (#15068)
get_test_property: clarify the documentation
set_tests_properties: fix documentation
tests: add tests for querying properties
Xcode: Sort targets deterministically and with ALL_BUILD first (#15346)
bootstrap: Fix syntax for Solaris 10 shell (#15317)
Help: Clarify MinGW v. MSYS Makefiles generators (#15319)
Ninja: Do not crash when CMAKE__COMPILE_OBJECT is empty (#15325)
Ninja: Generate rules only for languages compiled in a target (#15325)
Tests: Test using objects from a language enabled in a subdirectory (#15325)
Help: Add 3.1 release note about '#' escaping in Makefiles (#15322)
Help: Clarify if() documentation (#15335)
Help: Document CMAKE_FIND_PACKAGE_NAME variable
Xcode: Do not require code signing for compiler id (#15214)
XL: Fix link flags for executables on Linux with XL compilers
QNX: Fix detection of QCC compiler id (#15349)
Xcode: Fix early termination on per-config source file error
CMake 3.1.1
CPack: Fix PackageMaker internal versioning for OS X 10.10
Fix compilation with the Oracle / Sun compiler (#15318)
Help: Small fixes in CPackComponent documentation
FindRuby: fix selection of version x.0 (#15345)
CPack: Avoid crash on invalid CMake generator name (#15308)
FindRuby: Fix output check in _RUBY_CONFIG_VAR
find_package: Document CMAKE_FIND_PACKAGE_NAME variable
QtAutoUic: Restore source file AUTOUIC_OPTIONS settings
FindCUDA: Do not assume CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR is set
cmake-mode.el: Fix extracting keyword at point in cmake-help
cmake-mode.el: Re-add explicit call to require thingatpt
FindIce: Port to work with CMP0054 NEW behavior
FindSDL: Allow if() to dereference SDL_INCLUDE_DIR for matching
FindQt: fix setting DESIRED_QT_VERSION if "find_package(Qt VVV)" was called
FindQt: fix variable name in error message
FindQt: explicitly mention that it cannot Qt5 or later
FindBoost: Add latest Boost version 1.57.0 and next milestone 1.58.0
KWSys Terminal: Add xterm-termite to VT100 color support whitelist
Help: Document valid 14 value for CXX_STANDARD. (#15339)
get_target_property: discern empty from undefined properties (#15333)
QtAutoUic: Add a test for the regression in the parent commit.
cmMakefile: Rename a method to what it really does.
Features: Fix the COMPILE_FEATURES genex for unavailable features.
cmTarget: Compute link language of TARGET_OBJECTS with CMP0026 OLD (#15338)
Help: Link relevant documents for virtual override features (#15311)
Help: Add INTERFACE_LIBRARY to TYPE target property documentation
Help: Update cmake.org links to avoid redirects

New in CMake 3.1.0 (Dec 29, 2014)

Fixed issues:
0015011: problem to find non-standard ncurses.h location (Brad King) resolved.
0015070: [CMake] CMake doesn't escape # properly in add_compile_options with Makefile generator (Brad King) resolved.
0015214: [CMake] Error getting iOS compiler identification on master (Brad King) resolved.
0015275: [Modules] Duplicated lines in FindPythonInterp.cmake (Rolf Eike Beer) resolved.
0015276: [CMake] Document NVIDIA Nsight Tegra configuration settings (Brad King) resolved.
0010194: [CMake] setting CMAKE_RC_FLAGS has no affect on rc flags resolved.
0015228: [CMake] Compiler identification fails with -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=WindowsStore (Gilles Khouzam) resolved.
0015261: regex match when not matched do not clear cmake_match_0 and 1 var (Ben Boeckel) resolved.
0015259: [CMake] Source file properties are lost, if the name of the file is not specified case sensitive. (Brad King) resolved.
0015266: [Documentation] GET_PROPERTY and SET_PROPERTY need update for installed file properties (Brad King) resolved.
0015248: [CMakeSetup] When cross compiling, "make install" invokes target "cmake" instead of host version (Brad King) resolved.
0015246: [CMake] Make GNUInstallDirs more discoverable in the documentation (Brad King) resolved.
0015237: [CMake] No CMAKE_C_COMPILER could be found (3.1.0-rc1 regression) (Brad King) resolved.
0015225: [CMake] Clarify add_compile_options command documentation (Brad King) resolved.
0015220: [Modules] Find_package(Curses) failed for QNX 6.5 and QNX 6.6 (Brad King) resolved.
0014864: [Modules] CheckTypeSize changes CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED_VERSION (Daniele E. Domenichelli) resolved.
0015215: [Documentation] Please document CMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_* (Brad King) resolved.
0014972: [CMake] Ninja gen generates invalid phony dependencies for source files with in-source build (Brad King) resolved.
0015198: [CMake] ps2pdf not detected when cross-compiling (Brad King) resolved.
0014049: [Modules] FindThreads.cmake: several small bugs (Rolf Eike Beer) resolved.
0015135: [CPack] Allow properties on installed directories (Nils Gladitz) resolved.
0013794: [CMake] find_package(PythonLibs) finds different version of Python headers and libraries (Matt McCormick) resolved.
0008170: [CMake] Visual Studio 9 generator does not output Custom Build Tool command line for assembler sources resolved.
0015175: [CMake] Add support for Intel Fortran 15.0 Visual Studio (Brad King) resolved.
0015176: [Modules] typo in Modules/GNUInstallDirs.cmake (Rolf Eike Beer) resolved.
0015165: [CPack] WiX : Remember the INSTALL_ROOT directory for upgrades (Nils Gladitz) resolved.
0014981: [CMake] AUTOUIC not generating all needed ui_xxx.h files (Stephen Kelly) resolved.
0015155: [CMake] enable_language reports failure to find a module, but not which one (Brad King) resolved.
0015162: [CMake] FindGettext.cmake documentation issue (Brad King) resolved.
0015161: [CMake] FindProtobuf: Generated source not regenerated on library update (Brad King) resolved.
0015156: [CMake] Sometime, CMake can't find clang/clang++ resolved.
0008226: [CMake] if expansion of quoted arguments as variables should be deprecated (Bill Hoffman) resolved.
0015115: [CMake] WindowsCE: /SUBSYSTEM and /ENTRYPOINT does not end up in the generated Visual Studio project (Brad King) resolved.
0010080: [Modules] UseSWIG rebuilds source even when the the dependencies have not changed (jschueller) resolved.
0013511: [CMake] Add support for WinRT platforms and "metro" apps (Brad King) resolved.
0013791: [CMake] CMake does not support generating projects for Windows Phone 8. (Brad King) resolved.
0013429: [CMake] Symlinked lib directories confuse cmake (Brad King) resolved.
0015112: [CMake] add_custom_command: Clarify documented relationship of multiple COMMANDs (Brad King) resolved.
0015149: [Documentation] Document that the CHECK_* macros create cache variables (Brad King) resolved.
0015147: [Modules] CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR not detected on GNU/Hurd (Brad King) resolved.
0015101: [CMake] Imported libraries go out of scope after call to target_link_libraries(). resolved.
0015125: [CMake] XCode generator cannot add assetcatalog assets (Brad King) resolved.
0015117: InstallRequiredSystemLibraries does not install OpenMP library on MSVC (Brad King) resolved.
0015100: [CCMake] /ZWcompiler flag to disable CompileAsWinRT property in Visual Studio project (Brad King) resolved.
0014924: [CPack] Setting file permissions for the cpack WiX generator through install properties (Nils Gladitz) resolved.
0015108: [CMake] Platform information override files are not loaded for assembler. (Brad King) resolved.
0014656: [Modules] FindOpenMP does not return Fortran flags (Brad King) resolved.
0015096: [CMake] Incorrect compiler flag not detected for Intel (Brad King) resolved.
0015081: [CMake] ExternalProject: Clarify SVN_REVISION usage in documentation (Brad King) resolved.
0014347: [Modules] FindMPI sets MPIEXEC to wrong executable (Brad King) resolved.
0015066: [CTest] MSVC level 3 warning in test code (Brad King) resolved.
0015059: [CMake] Clarify documentation of CMake custom build step PRE_LINK/PRE_BUILD (Brad King) resolved.
0015060: [Documentation] "This is not security software." too sloppy (Brad King) resolved.
0010519: [CMake] FILE(STRINGS) does not work correctly for UTF8 encoded strings (Clinton Stimpson) resolved.
0015058: [Modules] CheckIncludeFiles uses old-style function definition (Brad King) resolved.
0013761: [CMake] Add QUIET option to install() command (Brad King) resolved.
0015034: [CMake] target_link_libraries: clarify documented treatment of link flags (Brad King) resolved.
0014923: [Modules] check_cxx_compiler_flag fails when variable name contains "++" resolved.
0015031: [CMake] visual studio 2012 generator ampersand escaping (Brad King) resolved.
0015051: [CMake] Detect more fujitsu compiler warnings resolved.
0013515: [CMake] ExternalProject doesn’t handle .tar.xz resolved.
0014504: [CMake] libarchive supports 7-Zip, Add 7-Zip support to cmake resolved.
0014519: [CMake] 7z ( LZMA and LZMA2) support for cpack resolved.
0013072: [CPack] Allow CPack to generate tar.xz archives resolved.
0014294: [CMake] Specifying CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++ after first run deletes all cached values (Brad King) resolved.
0015040: [CMake] CMake needs to support building against "/" on OS X with a deployment target set (Brad King) resolved.
0014751: [CMake] Generalize LINK_ONLY (Brad King) resolved.
0015026: [CMake] Build fails with Cray compiler on Linux resolved.
0015006: [CMake] AUTORCC doesn't work with OBJECT library (Brad King) resolved.
0014012: [Modules] FindImageMagick.cmake needs update for ImageMagick >= 6.8.0-8, perhaps use pkgconfig (Brad King) resolved.
0014728: [CMake] [CMake/Ninja] add_dependencies() to objlib's user is ignored. (Ben Boeckel) resolved.
0015000: [Modules] CMakeFindBinUtils always search for install_name_tool even when cross compiling on OSX (Brad King) resolved.
0014982: [CMake] VS14 VS2014 Support (Brad King) resolved.
0014874: [CMake] Static library can miss some object files (Brad King) resolved.
0014993: [CTest] ctest doesn't manage correctly the -LE and -L flags (Nils Gladitz) resolved.
0014973: [CMake] [RFE] Produce shorted output for cmake/ccmake when no arguments specified (Brad King) resolved.
0014966: [CMake] cmake succeeds evaluating a script that is a directory (Brad King) resolved.
0014934: archive_write_header: Can't translate pathname 'bin/教學程式' to UTF-8 resolved.
0014849: [CMake] Need a way to disable CMake package registry (Daniele E. Domenichelli) closed.
0014832: [Modules] findboost.cmake can't find boost::graph_parallel library (Ben Boeckel) closed.
0012300: [CMake] CMake has no cross-platform way to ask for C99 (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0014899: [CMake] $ with add_custom_target does not work (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0014927: [CMake] Visual Studio 7-9 generators case bools incorrectly (Brad King) closed.
0013842: [CMake] No Support for C++11 (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0014854: [CMake] Xcode projects with binary files cannot load in Xcode (Brad King) closed.
0014911: [CPack] What options do I have to set the NeverOverwrite and Permanent attributes for Components that install files from CPack? (Nils Gladitz) closed.
0012926: [Modules] FindPkgConfig module doesn't honor CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH. (Daniele E. Domenichelli) closed.
0014913: [Modules] GTEST_ADD_TESTS doesn't use new signature ADD_TEST(NAME name COMMAND command): generated executable is then not found (Rolf Eike Beer) closed.
0014889: [CPack] Cpack crashes when issuing a bad Wix Patch (Nils Gladitz) closed.
0014855: [CMake] Unpacking Qt 5.2.1 source distribution fails (ExternalProject_Add) (Brad King) closed.
0014866: [CMake] CMake's ENABLE_ACL option does not stop CMake looking for libacl.h (Brad King) closed.
0014592: [CMake] RunCMake.include_directories (SourceDirectoryInInterface & BinaryDirectoryInInterface) tests fail. (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0014858: [CMake] Flags specified for the compiler do not stay together during processing. (Brad King) closed.
0013360: [Modules] Java add_jar() doesn't copy resources to build directory when make is run for the first time closed.
0014056: [Modules] CheckTypeSize does not work if C language is not enabled (Daniele E. Domenichelli) closed.
0014381: [CMake] Inconsistent behaviour between find_package and pkg_check_modules (Brad King) closed.
0014807: [CMake] file(DOWNLOAD) progress goes wild (Brad King) closed.
0014814: [CMake] CMake 2.8.12.2 cannot be built on HP-UX 11.11 (hppa) (Brad King) closed.
0014799: [CMake] typo in comment, Source/cmELF.cxx (Brad King) closed.
0014804: [QtDialog] Crash in QCMake.cxx (Brad King) closed.
0013175: [CMake] FindPkgConfig.cmake should respect environment variable PKG_CONFIG just like autotools do closed.
0014775: [Modules] GTEST_ADD_TESTS from FindGTest may find sources automatically (Brad King) closed.
0014777: [CMake] OBJECT libraries cause Fortran to relink each time (Brad King) closed.
0014746: [CMake] --graphviz generates many files (Brad King) closed.
0014763: [CMake] Add target properties to specify MS compiler PDB files (Brad King) closed.

New in CMake 3.1.0 RC 3 (Dec 11, 2014)

Fixed issues:
0015275: [Modules] Duplicated lines in FindPythonInterp.cmake (Rolf Eike Beer)
0015070: [CMake] CMake doesn't escape # properly in add_compile_options with Makefile generator (Brad King)
0015276: [CMake] Document NVIDIA Nsight Tegra configuration settings (Brad King)
0010194: [CMake] setting CMAKE_RC_FLAGS has no affect on rc flags
0015228: [CMake] Compiler identification fails with -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=WindowsStore (Gilles Khouzam)
0015261: regex match when not matched do not clear cmake_match_0 and 1 var (Ben Boeckel)
0015259: [CMake] Source file properties are lost, if the name of the file is not specified case sensitive. (Brad King)
0015266: [Documentation] GET_PROPERTY and SET_PROPERTY need update for installed file properties (Brad King)
0015248: [CMakeSetup] When cross compiling, "make install" invokes target "cmake" instead of host version (Brad King)
0015246: [CMake] Make GNUInstallDirs more discoverable in the documentation (Brad King)
0015237: [CMake] No CMAKE_C_COMPILER could be found (3.1.0-rc1 regression) (Brad King)
0015214: [CMake] Error getting iOS compiler identification on master (Brad King)
0015225: [CMake] Clarify add_compile_options command documentation (Brad King)
0015220: [Modules] Find_package(Curses) failed for QNX 6.5 and QNX 6.6 (Brad King)
0014864: [Modules] CheckTypeSize changes CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED_VERSION (Daniele E. Domenichelli)
0015215: [Documentation] Please document CMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_* (Brad King)
0014972: [CMake] Ninja gen generates invalid phony dependencies for source files with in-source build (Brad King)
0015198: [CMake] ps2pdf not detected when cross-compiling (Brad King)
0014049: [Modules] FindThreads.cmake: several small bugs (Rolf Eike Beer)
0015135: [CPack] Allow properties on installed directories (Nils Gladitz)
0013794: [CMake] find_package(PythonLibs) finds different version of Python headers and libraries (Matt McCormick)
0008170: [CMake] Visual Studio 9 generator does not output Custom Build Tool command line for assembler sources
0015175: [CMake] Add support for Intel Fortran 15.0 Visual Studio (Brad King)
0015176: [Modules] typo in Modules/GNUInstallDirs.cmake (Rolf Eike Beer)
0015165: [CPack] WiX : Remember the INSTALL_ROOT directory for upgrades (Nils Gladitz)
0014981: [CMake] AUTOUIC not generating all needed ui_xxx.h files (Stephen Kelly)
0015155: [CMake] enable_language reports failure to find a module, but not which one (Brad King)
0015162: [CMake] FindGettext.cmake documentation issue (Brad King)
0015161: [CMake] FindProtobuf: Generated source not regenerated on library update (Brad King)
0015156: [CMake] Sometime, CMake can't find clang/clang++
0008226: [CMake] if expansion of quoted arguments as variables should be deprecated (Bill Hoffman)
0015115: [CMake] WindowsCE: /SUBSYSTEM and /ENTRYPOINT does not end up in the generated Visual Studio project (Brad King)
0010080: [Modules] UseSWIG rebuilds source even when the the dependencies have not changed (jschueller)
0013511: [CMake] Add support for WinRT platforms and "metro" apps (Brad King)
0013791: [CMake] CMake does not support generating projects for Windows Phone 8. (Brad King)
0013429: [CMake] Symlinked lib directories confuse cmake (Brad King)
0015112: [CMake] add_custom_command: Clarify documented relationship of multiple COMMANDs (Brad King)
0015149: [Documentation] Document that the CHECK_* macros create cache variables (Brad King)
0015147: [Modules] CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR not detected on GNU/Hurd (Brad King)
0015101: [CMake] Imported libraries go out of scope after call to target_link_libraries().
0015125: [CMake] XCode generator cannot add assetcatalog assets (Brad King)
0015117: InstallRequiredSystemLibraries does not install OpenMP library on MSVC (Brad King)
0015100: [CCMake] /ZWcompiler flag to disable CompileAsWinRT property in Visual Studio project (Brad King)
0014924: [CPack] Setting file permissions for the cpack WiX generator through install properties (Nils Gladitz)
0015108: [CMake] Platform information override files are not loaded for assembler. (Brad King)
0014656: [Modules] FindOpenMP does not return Fortran flags (Brad King)
0015096: [CMake] Incorrect compiler flag not detected for Intel (Brad King)
0015081: [CMake] ExternalProject: Clarify SVN_REVISION usage in documentation (Brad King)
0014347: [Modules] FindMPI sets MPIEXEC to wrong executable (Brad King)
0015066: [CTest] MSVC level 3 warning in test code (Brad King)
0015059: [CMake] Clarify documentation of CMake custom build step PRE_LINK/PRE_BUILD (Brad King)
0015060: [Documentation] "This is not security software." too sloppy (Brad King)
0010519: [CMake] FILE(STRINGS) does not work correctly for UTF8 encoded strings (Clinton Stimpson)
0015058: [Modules] CheckIncludeFiles uses old-style function definition (Brad King)
0013761: [CMake] Add QUIET option to install() command (Brad King)
0015034: [CMake] target_link_libraries: clarify documented treatment of link flags (Brad King)
0014923: [Modules] check_cxx_compiler_flag fails when variable name contains "++"
0015031: [CMake] visual studio 2012 generator ampersand escaping (Brad King)
0015051: [CMake] Detect more fujitsu compiler warnings
0013515: [CMake] ExternalProject doesn’t handle .tar.xz
0014504: [CMake] libarchive supports 7-Zip, Add 7-Zip support to cmake
0014519: [CMake] 7z ( LZMA and LZMA2) support for cpack
0013072: [CPack] Allow CPack to generate tar.xz archives
0014294: [CMake] Specifying CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++ after first run deletes all cached values (Brad King)
0015040: [CMake] CMake needs to support building against "/" on OS X with a deployment target set (Brad King)
0014751: [CMake] Generalize LINK_ONLY (Brad King)
0015026: [CMake] Build fails with Cray compiler on Linux
0015011: problem to find non-standard ncurses.h location (Brad King)
0015006: [CMake] AUTORCC doesn't work with OBJECT library (Brad King)
0014012: [Modules] FindImageMagick.cmake needs update for ImageMagick >= 6.8.0-8, perhaps use pkgconfig (Brad King)
0014728: [CMake] [CMake/Ninja] add_dependencies() to objlib's user is ignored. (Ben Boeckel)
0015000: [Modules] CMakeFindBinUtils always search for install_name_tool even when cross compiling on OSX (Brad King)
0014982: [CMake] VS14 VS2014 Support (Brad King)
0014874: [CMake] Static library can miss some object files (Brad King)
0014993: [CTest] ctest doesn't manage correctly the -LE and -L flags (Nils Gladitz)
0014973: [CMake] [RFE] Produce shorted output for cmake/ccmake when no arguments specified (Brad King)
0014966: [CMake] cmake succeeds evaluating a script that is a directory (Brad King)
0014934: archive_write_header: Can't translate pathname 'bin/教學程式' to UTF-8
0012300: [CMake] CMake has no cross-platform way to ask for C99 (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0014899: [CMake] $ with add_custom_target does not work (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0014927: [CMake] Visual Studio 7-9 generators case bools incorrectly (Brad King) closed.
0013842: [CMake] No Support for C++11 (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0014854: [CMake] Xcode projects with binary files cannot load in Xcode (Brad King) closed.
0014911: [CPack] What options do I have to set the NeverOverwrite and Permanent attributes for Components that install files from CPack? (Nils Gladitz) closed.
0012926: [Modules] FindPkgConfig module doesn't honor CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH. (Daniele E. Domenichelli) closed.
0014849: [CMake] Need a way to disable CMake package registry (Daniele E. Domenichelli) closed.
0014913: [Modules] GTEST_ADD_TESTS doesn't use new signature ADD_TEST(NAME name COMMAND command): generated executable is then not found (Rolf Eike Beer) closed.
0014889: [CPack] Cpack crashes when issuing a bad Wix Patch (Nils Gladitz) closed.
0014855: [CMake] Unpacking Qt 5.2.1 source distribution fails (ExternalProject_Add) (Brad King) closed.
0014866: [CMake] CMake's ENABLE_ACL option does not stop CMake looking for libacl.h (Brad King) closed.
0014592: [CMake] RunCMake.include_directories (SourceDirectoryInInterface & BinaryDirectoryInInterface) tests fail. (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0014858: [CMake] Flags specified for the compiler do not stay together during processing. (Brad King) closed.
0013360: [Modules] Java add_jar() doesn't copy resources to build directory when make is run for the first time closed.
0014056: [Modules] CheckTypeSize does not work if C language is not enabled (Daniele E. Domenichelli) closed.
0014381: [CMake] Inconsistent behaviour between find_package and pkg_check_modules (Brad King) closed.
0014807: [CMake] file(DOWNLOAD) progress goes wild (Brad King) closed.
0014814: [CMake] CMake 2.8.12.2 cannot be built on HP-UX 11.11 (hppa) (Brad King) closed.
0014799: [CMake] typo in comment, Source/cmELF.cxx (Brad King) closed.
0014804: [QtDialog] Crash in QCMake.cxx (Brad King) closed.
0013175: [CMake] FindPkgConfig.cmake should respect environment variable PKG_CONFIG just like autotools do closed.
0014775: [Modules] GTEST_ADD_TESTS from FindGTest may find sources automatically (Brad King) closed.
0014777: [CMake] OBJECT libraries cause Fortran to relink each time (Brad King) closed.
0014746: [CMake] --graphviz generates many files (Brad King) closed.
0014763: [CMake] Add target properties to specify MS compiler PDB files (Brad King) closed.

New in CMake 3.0.2 (Sep 12, 2014)

New in CMake 3.0.1 (Sep 12, 2014)

New in CMake 3.0 (Sep 12, 2014)

Fixed issues:
0014386: [CMake] Broken build (proposing fix) resolved.
0014027: [Modules] CMake fails build on HPUX with standard HP C and make resolved.
0014246: [CTest] ctest --help-variable-list fails to display CTEST* variables (Brad King) resolved.
0014946: [CMake] Document build v. install values for INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES (Brad King) resolved.
0014936: [CMake] CMAKE_GNUtoMS_VCVARS is not set when using Visual Studio 12 2013 and CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory (Brad King) resolved.
0014918: [CMake] x64 build under cygwin fails (Brad King) resolved.
0014928: [CMake] cmake -E create_symlink always returns code 0 even when failing to create symlink resolved.
0014916: [CMake] Info.plist is stored in the wrong directory when creating bundles in subdirectories resolved.
0014908: [CMake] CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT being ignored with frameworks in /Library/Frameworks resolved.
0014856: [CMake] cannot build cmake on Solaris (Brad King) resolved.
0014903: [Modules] InstallRequiredSystemLibraries CMAKE_INSTALL_MFC_LIBRARIES does not work with MSVC 2013 (Brad King) resolved.
0014894: [CMake] Regression/Qt: cmake touches on each run moc_*.cxx_parameters (Peter Kuemmel) resolved.
0014901: [CMake] Adding an .xib to an XCode project does not work. resolved.
0014887: [CMake] CMake fails to compile error: use of undeclared identifier 'abi' (Brad King) resolved.
0014886: [Documentation] [PATCH] Make documentation generation python3 compatible. (Brad King) resolved.
0014882: [CPack] cmake: strlen(): cpack killed by SIGSEGV (Brad King) resolved.
0014875: [Modules] /lib64 wrongfully appears in RPATH (Brad King) resolved.
0014870: [CMake] FindMPI.cmake returns 32-bit libraries on 64-bit systems for Fortran-only projects (Brad King) resolved.
0014099: [CMake] Ninja: CMAKE_${LANG}_FLAGS passed to linker come from incorrect scope (Peter Kuemmel) resolved.
0014184: [CMake] link_directories produce backslash path for mingw (Peter Kuemmel) resolved.
0014865: [CMake] CMakeDetermineRCCompiler does not detect windres from "i686-w64-mingw32.shared-windres" (Brad King) resolved.
0014089: [CMake] add_test/add_custom_command: Support generator expressions in WORKING_DIRECTORY (Ben Boeckel) resolved.
0014339: [Modules] CheckCXXCompilerFlag seems to have problems with XL and BCC (Rolf Eike Beer) resolved.
0014739: [Modules] findboost.cmake can't find boost::mpi library (Brad King) resolved.
0014808: [CMake] Policy CMP0026 set OLD not working for _LOCATION (Stephen Kelly) resolved.
0014790: [CMake] CMake crashes with XCode generator (Brad King) resolved.
0014806: [CMake] cmake does not detect correct intel c/c++ compiler version (Brad King) resolved.
0013251: [CMake] cmake -E tar fails to extract some files correctly (Brad King) resolved.
0014798: [CMake] CMake fails to build correctly from source on FreeBSD... resolved.
0014784: Seg fault with wrong number of args for check-build-system (Brad King) resolved.
0014393: [Modules] FindwxWidgets.cmake doesn't look for x64 wxWidgets (MSVC) directories. (Brad King) resolved.
0014577: [CMake] Need to map /Fd to ProgramDataBaseFileName in VS 7,8,9 (Brad King) resolved.
0014774: [Modules] FindFreetype cannot find version 2.5 resolved.
0014600: [CMake] Document PDB behavior w.r.t. static libraries (Brad King) resolved.
0014755: [CMake] Cannot use VisualStudio 2013 Express with Windows7.1SDK for 64Bit builds resolved.
0014735: [CMake] FindOpenSSL.cmake does not honor the OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR variable for non Windows platforms (Brad King) resolved.
0014366: [CMake] Command line definitions ignored if -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER is passed (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0012184: [Modules] SWIG_ADD_MODULE generates wrong file name for Ruby under Mac OS X (jschueller) closed.
0013318: [CMake] swig: -noproxy option not supported with python (jschueller) closed.
0014493: [CMake] Document relationship of VS_KEYWORD and VS_GLOBAL_KEYWORD (Brad King) closed.
0011693: [CMake] On Mac OS X, the CMake .app filename should not contain the version number (Brad King) closed.
0014659: Support for MirBSD in CMake (Brad King) closed.
0014712: [CMake] improper setting of CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR (Brad King) closed.
0008466: [CTest] Provide finer control than pass/fail for a test program (Rolf Eike Beer) closed.
0009188: [CMake] ADD_DEPENDENCIES silently accepts invalid target names (Nils Gladitz) closed.
0013952: [CMake] "CodeBlocks NMake Makefiles" generates broken xml if spaces in path (Nils Gladitz) closed.
0014690: [CMake] CheckTypeSize doesn't behave as documented in daily build (Daniele E. Domenichelli) closed.
0014692: [Modules] UseQt4.cmake does not adhere to policy CMP0043 (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0014686: [CMake] FindBoost.cmake does not provide a way to use libraries built by boost with the runtime-debugging=off bjam parameter (Brad King) closed.
0014508: [Modules] FindJNI.cmake fails to set JAVA_INCLUDE_PATH2 for darwin (Brad King) closed.
0009822: [CMake] Please expose: cmGlobalGenerator::GetExportSet at cmake level (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0014439: [CPack] WiX: set/respect file/directory permissions (Nils Gladitz) closed.
0014670: [CCMake] get_property does not work for ALIASED_TARGET property (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0011338: [CMake] CMake adds CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR to include_directories if there is a VTK project. (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0014646: [CMake] Clarify if(TARGET) documentation (Brad King) closed.
0014658: [CMake] Document CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE initialization (Brad King) closed.
0014657: [Documentation] TestCXXAcceptsFlag description is incorrect (Brad King) closed.
0014661: [CMake] Explicit project type GUID needed with INCLUDE_EXTERNAL_MSPROJECT (Brad King) closed.
0014631: [CMake] source_group should document behavior of relative paths (Brad King) closed.
0014453: [CMake] Look into performance of GenerateExportHeader test (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0014622: [CMake] Typo in helpstrings for CMAKE_(C|CXX|Fortran)_STANDARD_LIBRARIES_INIT (Brad King) closed.
0014636: [CMake] Error with whitelisted properties and generator expression in target_link_libraries (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0014645: [CMake] exec_program and execute_process don't capture output when it does not end in a newline (Brad King) closed.
0014133: [CMake] CMake creates duplicate target subfolders in Xcode project files (Brad King) closed.
0014434: [CPack] WiX: component support (Nils Gladitz) closed.
0014603: [CMake] Cross compiling for darwin fails (Brad King) closed.
0014605: [CMake] Cross compiling/linking with MSVC on linux using wine fails (Brad King) closed.
0014606: [CMake] Obsolete description for CMAKE_(C|CXX|Fortran)_FLAGS_RELEASE (Brad King) closed.
0014593: [Modules] FindGTK2.cmake fails to find GTK with Quartz backend (Daniele E. Domenichelli) closed.
0013173: [CMake] Swig module can't handle absolute path (jschueller) closed.
0013426: [Modules] FindSWIG.cmake doesn't mark variables as advanced (jschueller) closed.
0013771: [CMake] Use CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR instead of CMAKE_ROOT in FindSWIG module. (jschueller) closed.
0013772: [CMake] UseSWIG.cmake does not handle relative paths with parent directories (jschueller) closed.
0013814: [CMake] SWIG C# generates a DllImport line that doesn't match the library name (jschueller) closed.
0014370: [CMake] add_custom_command() commands run from incorrect directory with Ninja generator (Peter Kuemmel) closed.
0014520: [CMake] UseSWIG module can generate too long command lines in the build chain (jschueller) closed.
0014411: [CMake] Ninja dependencies don't work with Intel and many other GCC-like compilers (Peter Kuemmel) closed.
0014458: [CMake] Support clang-cl, clang's cl-compatible driver (Brad King) closed.
0014544: Remove edit_cache target from ninja output (Brad King) closed.
0014548: [CMake] Document CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM as preferred over CMAKE_BUILD_TOOL, not vice versa (Brad King) closed.
0014562: [CMake] not able to compile a simple test program with -G "Visual Studio 11 2012" -Tv90 (Brad King) closed.
0014567: [Modules] FindOpenMP is incorrect for compilers that accept OpenMP with no flags (Rolf Eike Beer) closed.
0014587: [CMake] Add support for wxWidgets 3.0.0 (Brad King) closed.
0013140: [CMake] CMake does not reject unsupported logical target names (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0013902: [CMake] target_link_libraries should not accept utility targets (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0013947: [CMake] Policy to disallow link interface self-references (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0014554: [CPack] Pass custom arguments to WIX (Nils Gladitz) closed.
0014561: [CMake] Errors with add_libaray(name INTERFACE) when TARGET_SUPPORTS_SHARED_LIBS is false (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0014540: [Modules] Typo in PHP find module (Brad King) closed.
0014541: [Modules] FindJNDI: amd64/ppc64 kernels might be running on 32bit system (Brad King) closed.
0014402: [CMake] Replace "Visual Studio 11" by Visual Studio 2012" in cmake-gui (Brad King) closed.
0012600: [CMake] Specifying CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX in a CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE file has no effect (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0012611: [Documentation] Missing CMAKE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES_BEFORE from documentation (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0013188: [CMake] Target and directory include_directory usage. (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0013663: FindBoost documentation example should clarify it only finds static libraries (Brad King) closed.
0014355: [Modules] Implementation of qt4_add_executable/library (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0014533: [CMake] With Ninja, CTest is launching one test twice (Nils Gladitz) closed.
0014713: [CMake] cmake -create-symlink doesn't overwrite existing dangling(!) symlinks (Brad King) closed.
0014378: [CMake] ZERO_CHECK.vcxproj referenced despite CMAKE_SUPPRESS_REGENERATION set to FALSE (Brad King) closed.
0014389: Find package Java should look first in the JAVA_HOME env var. (Graham Markall) closed.
0014481: [CMake] Unable to support a new language using CMAKE_MODULE_PATH within an outside project. (Brad King) closed.
0014507: [CMake] -i_dynamic flag (depricated) incorrectly added when using intel compilers (Brad King) closed.
0011137: [CMake] Unable to parse CMakeLists.txt in UTF-8 with BOM encoding (Brad King) closed.
0014181: [CMake] One-character function names don't work (Brad King) closed.
0014494: [CMake] Doesn't create .lib for header only targets on Windows. (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0014498: [CMake] Folder references aren't added correctly to Xcode projects. (Brad King) closed.
0014499: [CMake] Add support for .NET target framework version for VS 2008 (Brad King) closed.
0014502: [Modules] FindJava.cmake message incorrectness (Rolf Eike Beer) closed.
0013035: [CMake] Support for MinGW Clang on Windows (Brad King) closed.
0014466: [CPack] Deterministic file/directory IDs (Nils Gladitz) closed.
0014468: [CPack] WiX: Include extra .wxs and/or .wixlib files (Nils Gladitz) closed.
0014471: [CMake] -T switch with Intel Compiler does not set CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER properly (Brad King) closed.
0014476: [CMake] MSVC_IDE and MSVC not set when using Intel Platform Toolset (Brad King) closed.
0012886: [CMake] Add a manifest or main-class file to the created jar (Brad King) closed.
0014387: [CMake] setting MS build output verbosity to "Diagnostic" in VisualStudio leads to CMAKE_CXX_SIZEOF_DATA_PTR set to "" (Brad King) closed.
0014418: [Modules] FindOpenSSL: should mark {LIB,SSL}_EAY_{DEBUG,RELEASE} as advanced (Rolf Eike Beer) closed.
0014424: [Documentation] Vague ADD_DEPENDENCIES() Description (Brad King) closed.
0014358: [Modules] FortranCInterface fails to find generated test program when cross-compiling (Brad King) closed.
0014371: [CCMake] bootstrapping with --docdir puts documentation in wron directory (Brad King) closed.
0014608: [CMake] segmentation fault when "export(TARGETS nonexistenttarget FILE somefile.cmake") (Stephen Kelly) closed.
0014570: Intel + Ninja regression: unable to compile a simple test program (Peter Kuemmel) closed.
0013123: [CTest] ctest_empty_binary_directory failure is too silent (Nils Gladitz) closed.
0014121: [CMake] Custom command errors are hidden when CTest launchers are used with Ninja (Robert Maynard) closed.
0013143: [CTest] ctest_coverage runs gcov on gcda files outside the current build directory (Nils Gladitz) closed.
0014511: [CMake] Makefile generators segfault when custom target sources have compile definitions (Nils Gladitz) closed.
0014484: [CTest] CTest ignores RUN_SERIAL if test gets run as a dependency of another test (Nils Gladitz) closed.

New in CMake 2.8.12.2 (Jan 17, 2014)

New in CMake 2.8.12.1 (Jan 17, 2014)

New in CMake 2.8.12 (Oct 11, 2013)

New in CMake 2.8.12 RC 1 (Aug 17, 2013)

CPackWIX: Add support for custom WiX templates
CMakeSystem: include toolchain file after setting CMAKE_HOST_ (#13796)
Add support files for C, C++ and ASM for the IAR toolchain.
Add regexps for the IAR toolchain to the vendor list.
Add IAR to the CMakeDetectC(XX)CompilerID.c(pp).in
cmake-gui: use shortcut F only for "Find in Output"
Eclipse: fix #14204 and #14205: no file links to directories
automoc: add a global AUTOMOC_TARGETS_FOLDER property
install: do not strip dll import libraries (#14123)
ExportTargets: add one more comment to the generated file.
Add documentation for the --graphviz support
graphvizoptions: add copyright notice
add macros cmake_print_properties() and cmake_print_variables()
VS: Detect MSVC compiler id on ARM toolchain
Fix spelling and typos (affecting users)
Fix spelling and typos (affecting binary data / module messages)
Fix spelling and typos (non-binary)
Fix spelling and typos (product names)
FindwxWidgets: add DOC strings with usual style
Explain distribution of Win9x binary on all Windows versions.
VS10: add detailed comment about MIDL processing
Docs: Update description of CMAKE_(BUILD_TYPE|CONFIGURATION_TYPES)
Docs: Clarify that CMAKE_*_(PREFIX|SUFFIX) affect filenames
Docs: Clarify wording "flag used" => "flag (to|will) be used"
set_property: Do not remove a property when APPENDing nothing
Tests/RunCMake: Document stripping of expected output
export: Error when exporting a target without a language
variable_watch: Store client data as pointers
variable_watch: Add a deleter for the client data
variable_watch: Match client_data when finding duplicates
variable_watch: Allow specifying the data to match in RemoveWatch
variable_watch: Prevent making extra entries in the watch map
variable_watch: Fix a typo in the error message
variable_watch: Don't share memory for callbacks
variable_watch: Check newValue for NULL
variable_watch: Add test for watching a variable multiple times
Do not set CMAKE_MATCH_ variables when not neeeded
SelectLibraryConfigurations: Fix for cached _LIBRARY
VS: Separate compiler and linker PDB files (#11899, #14062)
MSVC: Invoke 'link' directly for executables
Ninja: Fix OBJECT_DIR placeholder path conversion
VS 10: Escape ; as ; in preprocessor definitions (#14073)
CTest: Simplify ctest_* command source/build dir lookup
get_filename_component: Add explicit unit tests
get_filename_component: Add DIRECTORY option (#14091)
Xcode: Use explicitFileType to mark source types (#14093)
Check{C,CXX}CompilerFlag: Test using C locale (#14102)
Windows: Search '/' prefix only when cross compiling (#10994)
Recognize ld with toolchain prefix (#13960)
VS: Always initialize CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES in IDE generators
Begin post-2.8.11 development
Sanitize linker name to parse implicit link line (#14154)
VS: Allow /Fa to set AssemblerListingLocation (#14153)
Tests/IncludeDirectories: Avoid shared library with no symbols
if: Add test for IS_DIRECTORY
try_compile: Add test for bad call error cases
try_compile: Refactor argument processing
variable_watch: Add test for MODIFIED_ACCESS report
bootstrap: Compile KWSys SystemTools with UTIME(S|NSAT) values
variable_watch: Remove leftover debugging code (#14187)
variable_watch: Print accesses as "CMake Debug Log" messages
Docs: Clarify CMAKE_PARENT_LIST_FILE (#14194)
get_filename_component: Test ABSOLUTE of .. after root component
try_compile: Add signature to allow multiple SOURCES
enable_language: Clarify documentation
Split cmBootstrapCommands.cxx into two sources
Document CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX in CMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH
cmake: Document "-E tar" support for .zip (#14225)
FindBoost: Clarify failure on missing 'static' libs (#14235)
CMakeDetermineVSServicePack: Improve documentation
CMakeDetermineVSServicePack: Add VS 11 update 1 and 2 (#14239)
Document ENV syntax as a "variable" (#14245)
Embarcadero: Use response files only for includes, objects, and libs
Escape target flags taken from COMPILE_OPTIONS
Refactor target COMPILE_OPTIONS and COMPILE_FLAGS handling
CMakeDetermineVSServicePack: Add VS 11 update 3
Document removal of 'register' from flex/bison output
VS12: Find proper MSBuild for VSProjectInSubdir test
Fortran: Use explicit type in Fortran 90 check
project: Document top-level CMakeLists.txt requirement
ExternalProject: Document multiple COMMAND lines
include: Clarify variable access scope for included file
VS: Fix /MAP:mapfile flag mapping (#14282)
cmake: On configure error suggest looking at CMake*.log files
try_compile: Escape CMAKE__FLAGS in test projects (#14268)
try_compile: Add COPY_FILE_ERROR option to capture failure
FindPNG: Add versioned library names for 1.6 (#14289)
cmake: Fix resource leak reported by cppcheck
VS,Xcode: Drop incorrect legacy dependency trace (#14291)
OS X: Add copyright notices to Darwin-*-Fortran.cmake
VS: Avoid leaking child process output back to IDE (#14266)
Fix ExportImport test cmp0022NEW build on Watcom
add_test: Document test name restrictions (#14298)
UseJava: Update notice of copyright by Kitware
add_custom_command: Manage backtrace memory correctly (#14299)
Teach compiler ABI check to tolerate try_compile COPY_FILE failure
Test COMPILE_DEFINITIONS target property get/set/get round-trip
Check*CompilerFlag: Document use of CMAKE_REQUIRED_DEFINITIONS (#14309)
sha2: Avoid type-punned pointer dereference (#14314)
VS 6: Tell BuildDepends test to tolerate ninjadep failure
cmMakefile: Do not track configured files known to be temporary
libarchive: Update README-CMake.txt for new snapshot
libarchive: Include cm_zlib.h to get zlib used by CMake
libarchive: Silence API deprecation warnings
libarchive: Avoid struct init with variable
libarchive: Remove build options not used by CMake
libarchive: Backport to CMake 2.8.2
VS10: Honor user-specified /SUBSYSTEM: flag (#14326)
VS10: Escape include paths in XML project files (#14331)
OS X: Search for SDK based on deployment target (#14324)
bootstrap: Do not suppress CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT if CFLAGS have -isysroot (#14324)
OS X: Enable command-line build without tools in PATH
VS 6,7: Refactor local generators to avoid GetSourceFileWithOutput
cmake-gui: Fix build rules for Qt5 on Windows
Include cmMakefile.h before cm*Lexer.h to get stdint.h first
Skip CTestLimitDashJ test on Borland
Add RunCMake.Syntax test to cover argument parsing
cmListFileLexer: Fix line number after backslash in string
cmListFileLexer: Split normal and legacy unquoted arguments
cmListFileArgument: Generalize 'Quoted' bool to 'Delimeter' enum
Add RunCMake.Syntax test cases for command invocation styles
cmListFileCache: Convert CMake language parser to class
Warn about arguments not separated by whitespace
Warn about unquoted arguments that look like long brackets
cmListFileLexer: Modify flex output to avoid Borland warning
Cygwin: Avoid legacy warnings in RunCMake.* tests
Update version introducing CMP0021, CMP0022, and CMP0023
OS X: Do not default to non-existent deployment target SDK
Do not warn about left paren not separated by a space
VS: Add support for .NET target framework version
Improve documentation for CPACK_PACKAGE_INSTALL_REGISTRY_KEY.
Refactor how bundles and frameworks are supported.
Xcode: Add support for shared library versioning
OS X: Fix getting of CFBundle LOCATION property.
OS X: Add RPATH support for Mac.
Xcode: Add rpath support in Xcode generator.
OS X: Add support for @rpath in export files.
OS X: Add test for rpaths on Mac.
OS X: Improvements for getting install name of dylib.
OS X: Enable rpath support on Mac OS X when find_library() is used.
OS X: Fix regression handling frameworks for Ninja
OS X: If necessary, use xcrun to help find otool used to query install names.
Xcode: Support XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_ with [variant=] (#12532)
FindGTK2: Move check for pangocairo in gtk module
FindGTK2: Detect gthread library
FindFreetype: Detect Freetype installed by GtkMM installer for win
FindGTK2: Do not fail on MSVC11 if vc100 libraries are available
FindGTK2: Add GTK2_DEFINITIONS variable
SelectLibraryConfigurations: Do not cache the _LIBRARY variable
SelectLibraryConfigurations: Use -NOTFOUND instead of copying the vars
FindGTK2: Use GTK_XXX_LIBRARY_DEBUG libraries in debug mode
FindGTK2: Append _LIBRARY to var name in _GTK2_FIND_LIBRARY
FindGTK2: Append _INCLUDE_DIR to var name in _GTK2_FIND_INCLUDE_DIR
FindGTK2: Update local changelog
FindGTK2: Remove GTK2_SKIP_MARK_AS_ADVANCED option
FindGTK2: gthread-2.0 folder does not exist
FindGTK2: Detect gmodule library
FindGTK2: Detect pangoft2 and pangoxft libraries
OpenBSD: Enable ELF parsing and editing (#14241)
CPack/NSIS: Obtain path from which to uninstall from registry (#14124)
Add support for componentized USER spec file
CPackRPM add mechanism to remove path from generated list of file in RPM spec.
CPackRPM add /usr/lib64 to the list of builtin to-be-excluded path
CPackRPM protect '@' character in filename processed in the spec file.
CPackRPM make the changelog line conform to expected format
CPackWIX: Handle CPACK_PACKAGE_EXECUTABLES (#13967)
FindImageMagick: Find v6 include dir (#14174)
OS X: Add Fortran library version flags (#14249)
UseJava: Pass sources to javac using response file (#13028)
Allow using Java in a cross-compilation toolchain
Ninja: use cd /D to set directory on Windows
CPackWIX: Fix MSI package layout regression from parent
bash-completion: Add -S,-SP options arguments completion
bash-completion: Fix/improve generator names extraction
Eclipse: Add a missing space in the documentation
MinGW: Find mingw32-make included with Code::Blocks IDE (#14302)
VS: Add Windows Forms Support
VS: Add VS_GLOBAL_ROOTNAMESPACE target property
VS: Add Resx configuration to the vcxproj file
libarchive 3.1.2 (reduced)
cmake-gui: Add search functions for Output window (#9733)
cmake-gui: Add search functions to the context menu of the Output widget
cmake-gui: Change shortcut of the search field from Ctrl-F to Alt-E
cmake-gui: Add function for going to next error message in Output window
FindCUDA: Remove duplicate entries from INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.
FindX11: Search in /opt/X11 for OS X 10.8 (#14232)
FindCUDA: CUDA_COMPUTE_BUILD_PATH uses relative paths to binary dir.
ExternalProject: Allow blank SVN_USERNAME/SVN_PASSWORD (#14128)
Xcode: Honor CMAKE_(MODULE|SHARED)_LINKER_FLAGS_ (#14161)
UseJava.cmake: fully use cmake_parse_arguments in add_jar
FindProtobuf: also find pthread
UseJava.cmake: document add_jar compat shim
Optimize custom command full-path dependency lookup
Add cmake_host_system_information command
Add option to use stdout/stderr of original terminal in cmake --build
Unify the way the flags of a static library are read
Add support for CMAKE_STATIC_LINKER_FLAGS
Add CMAKE_STATIC_LINKER_FLAGS to CMakeCommonLanguageInclude
Add documentation for the missing CMAKE_*_LINKER_FLAGS_* variables
Add additonal tests for the linker flags
VS6: Add handling of CMAKE_*_LINKER_FLAGS_ variables
VS6: Hardcode id_machine_6 for compiler detection
VS10: Do not set the TargetMachine when detecting the compiler
VS: Set CMAKE_VS_PLATFORM_NAME for VS7 and VS71 too
VS: Replace ArchitectureId with PlatformName
VS12: Remove duplicated overload of UseFolderProperty()
Fix detection of WinCE SDKs with 64bit verion of CMake
VS: Unify how the name of the generator is specified
VS10: Add support for assembler code (#11536)
WIN: Use COFF file header header for architecture detection (#14083)
Improve const-correctness in cmVisualStudioGeneratorOptions
Fix setting of the entry point symbol for Windows CE (#14088)
Add support for new Windows CE compiler
VS11: Add support for Windows CE SDKs
CTest: Add test for running many tests in parallel
cmDependsC: Collapse relative include paths
Add projectDir parameter to GenerateBuildCommand
VS: Create parser for Visual Studio .sln files
VS: Use .sln parser to build targets in subdirs with msbuild (#13623)
VS: Add test for building MSBuild project in subdir
ctest_build: Pass projectDir to GenerateBuildCommand
Ninja: Make cmcldeps depfile output more consistent with 'ninja -t msvc'
CPackWIX: Handle multiple shortcuts in the start menu
CPackWIX: Add option to specify the language(s) of the installer
CMakeCPack: Provide an upgrade guid for WiX
cmMakefile: Refactor AddCMakeDependFile and AddCMakeOutputFile.
Ninja: Track configured files so we can regenerate them.
cmMakefile: Track configured files so we can regenerate them (#13582)
Add a test to expose a bug with add_custom_command and ninja.
Ninja: GlobalNinjaGenerator WriteBuild and WritePhonyBuild non static
Ninja: Custom Command file depends don't need to exist before building
FindCUDA: Search for libraries in /lib//nvidida-current.
Ninja: Properly convert all paths to unix style before we do set intersection.
Ninja: Update BuildDepends test to verify cmcldeps depfiles.
FindOpenSSL: Fix spelling of CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING (#14075)
FindOpenGL: simplify OS selection code
FindOpenGL: require headers to be found on non-Windows platforms (#13746)
Tests: create output files for all memory checkers
CTest: use an output file for Valgrind (#14110)
CTest: remove unreachable code and CTestTestMemcheckUnknown test
Tests: remove code duplication in CTestTestMemCheck tests
Tests: verify that memory checker output files are always present
CTest: drop suppression for gcc 2.9.6 errors from default Valgrind flags
Tests: add test for non-existent Valgrind suppression file
CTest: fix comment documenting cmBoundsCheckerParser class
Tests: add a test with custom options passed to valgrind
CTest: make sure never to report negative test times (#14132)
Doc: fix example for FAIL_REGULAR_EXPRESSION
CTest: break after first regex match on output
Tests: ignore Guard Malloc messages in MemChecker tests
CTest: avoid useless changing of directory
Tests: fix build of dummy memtester on AIX
wizard: fix warnings
wizard: simplify control flow
cmTarget: drop the unused local typedef LinkLine
Tests: ignore GuardMalloc messages on all Apple build, not just XCode ones
replace string(... MATCHES "^const$) with string(... STREQUAL "const")
Revert "CTest: fix pre and post test commands with spaces" (#13887)
FindPNG: improve library detection (#14301)
CTest: create one output file per memcheck (#14303)
Remove some uses of obsolete 'register' storage specifier
Document CMAKE__FLAGS variable (#14305)
Make the QtAutomoc test compile with either Qt 4 or Qt 5
Add a test for Qt5Automoc
Remove an endif() followed by an if() for the same condition.
Fix some copyastos in the DetermineRCCompiler file.
Test transitive includes from setting the LINK_LIBRARIES property.
Test the use of target transitive compile definitions with moc.
Fix handling of commas in arbitrary content in genexes.
Fix style.
Remove unused marker for a variable which is now used.
Extract the ProcessArbitraryContent method.
Rename the method determining if a genex accepts arbitrary content.
Make it possible for any genex to have arbitrary content at the end.
Add the JOIN generator expression.
Test that linking using the debug keyword to tll works.
automoc: Read target defines unconditionally
Remove unused typedef.
Fix brace indentation.
Add EXPORT_NAME property.
Remove unused vector population.
Sublime: Honor source-level COMPILE_FLAGS property
Docs: cmake -G selects a "build system" generator
Recognize shared library files with a numerical suffix
FindQt4: Fix QUIET failure with Qt 5 but not Qt 4
Error on relative path in INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES target property.
include_directories: Fix handling of empty or space-only entries
CTest: Read CTEST_PARALLEL_LEVEL from environment
string: Add MAKE_C_IDENTIFIER subcommand
GenerateExportHeader: Add newlines to separate the compiler output.
GenerateExportHeader: Allow use of of this macro with MODULEs.
file: Add GENERATE command to produce files at generate time
Tests/Module/GenerateExportHeader: Test exported free-function
Add $ generator expression
GenerateExportHeader: Generate only C identifiers as defines
Tests/CompileDefinitions: Avoid spaces in defines on VS 6
Use the qt5::moc imported target instead of a variable.
QtAutomoc: Get the Qt version through the target link interface
Fix indentation.
VS6: Rename some variables to correspond to config values.
Add cmLocalGenerator::GetCompileOptions.
Add _COMPILER_ID generator expressions.
cmTarget: Rename struct to be more re-usable.
cmTarget: Rename LinkInterfaceIncludeDirectoriesEntries
Add COMPILE_OPTIONS target property.
Add target_compile_options command.
Introduce target property _VISIBILITY_PRESET
Add a COMPILE_OPTION for a VISIBILITY_INLINES_HIDDEN target property.
Qt4Macros: Allow specifying a TARGET in invokations of macros.
Introduce add_compile_options command.
Remove unused cmAddDefinitionsCommand::ParseDefinition method.
Add some spaces to the INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES documentation.
CLI: Suppress the unused warning if the key value pair is cached.
Use --sysroot when cross compiling.
Add missing 'seen' check for evaluating COMPILE_OPTIONS.
Find targets in INTERFACE_COMPILE_OPTIONS when exporting for try_compile.
Use a preprocessor loop to manage the valid transitive properties.
Generate INTERFACE_COMPILE_OPTIONS on export.
Genex: Fix indentation in docs.
cmSystemTools: Fix typo in comment.
Style: Don't put an else after a return.
Add compiler target compile options.
QtAutomoc: Fix handling of list separator for compile definitions.
QtAutomoc: Use config-dependent compile definitions and includes.
De-duplicate version comparison code.
Add generator expressions for version comparision.
Don't run the WarnUnusedCliUnused test on Windows.
Add whitespace after colons in error messages.
Add missing return after error report.
Genex: Make LINK_LANGUAGE report an error when evaluating link libraries.
Genex: Extend EvaluatingLinkLibraries to also check the top target name.
Genex: Report error if a target file is needed to evaluate link libraries.
Add generator expressions for compiler versions.
Split the GeneratorExpression test into a third part.
Remove unused variable.
Add Target API to determine if an include is a system include.
Store system include directories in the cmTarget.
Extend the cmTargetPropCommandBase interface property handling.
Add a SYSTEM parameter to target_include_directories (#14180)
Add entire link interface transitive closure as target depends.
Test non-IMPORTED libraries in the INTERFACE of IMPORTED libraries.
GenexEval: Add abstracted access to link interface for a target.
Introduce the LINK_ONLY generator expression.
Introduce the INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES property.
Export: Generate INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES property on targets.
TLL: Don't populate old link interface if CMP0022 is NEW.
Overload cmLocalGenerator::AppendDefines to add a list.
Add an overload of cmIDEOptions::AddDefines taking a vector of strings.
Refactor cmTarget::GetCompileDefinitions to use an out-vector, not a string.
Document some variables for deprecation control.
Genex: Make CMP0021 and CMP0022 usable with TARGET_POLICY
Revert "Use --sysroot when cross compiling."
Add target property debugging for COMPILE_DEFINITIONS
Mark qt4_use_modules and qt4_automoc as obsolete.
Add the INTERFACE_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES target property.
Don't add trailing whitespace to error message.
Remove TODO to uniq COMPILE_OPTIONS
Remove the LINK_LANGUAGE generator expression.
Genex: Fix $ with IMPORTED targets and multiple locations.
FindQt4: Don't use Qt component _FOUND vars before they're defined (#14286)
Add a convenient way to add the includes install dir to the INTERFACE.
Use linked frameworks as a source of include directories.
target_link_libraries: Add PUBLIC/PRIVATE/INTERFACE keyword signature
FindQt4: Re-add QAxServer to the QT_MODULES.
FindQt4: Populate the INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES of IMPORTED targets.
Genex: Allow relative paths in INSTALL_INTERFACE.
cmTarget: Fix property name typo in docs.
Docs: Document file(GENERATE) CONDITION as optional.
Qt4Macros: Remove unneeded generate CONDITION.
Qt4Macros: Remove undefined varible use.
Qt4Macros: Simplify some variable population.
Docs: Document existing target property debugging options.
Docs: Trim trailing whitespace in generated doc.
Docs: Generalize and de-duplicate VISIBILITY_PREFIX docs.
Docs: Document variables for default visibility values.
Export: Fix typo of LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES.
cmTarget: Remove duplicates when printing traces of tll signatures
cmTarget: Fix iface libraries and languages for static libraries.
Genex: Disallow LINKER_LANGUAGE only when used on a static library.
install: Remove error condition using INCLUDES DESTINATION without EXPORT.
Fix crash on export of target with empty INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.
Allow target commands to be invoked with no items (#14325).
Docs: Fix typo in CMAKE_DEBUG_TARGET_PROPERTIES
cmTarget: Add NAME property
Export: Process generator expressions from INCLUDES DESTINATION.
Add the ALIAS target concept for libraries and executables.
Revert "Add compiler target compile options."
Genex: Fix segfault when parsing ends with parameter expectation.
Add cmake_reset_check_state() macro
Use GmakeErrorParser instead of deprecated MakeErrorParser (fixes bug 0013699)
variable_watch: Add missing string enumeration entry (#14188)
ccmake: Add missing initializers reported by cppcheck
libarchive: Fix free() order to avoid accessing freed memory
cmcurl: Fix resource leak reported by cppcheck

New in CMake 2.8.11.2 (Jul 4, 2013)

New in CMake 2.8.11 RC 3 (Apr 19, 2013)

New in CMake 2.8.11 RC 2 (Apr 19, 2013)

Determine C/CXX/Fortran compiler: minor restructuring
Determine C/CXX/Fortran compiler: fix indentation
rename TI_DSP toolchain to TI, since it works also for the ARM compiler
TI compiler: add automatic detection of prefix and suffixes
Modules/readme.txt: switch from "XXX" to "Xxx"
Modules/readme.txt: make lines a bit shorter for easier readability
Clang: Add -isystem flag support everywhere
ExternalProject: Retry on a failed git clone
string: Fix regex documentation of '^' and '$' (#14028)
Rename variable for including current directory in interfaces
Replace in CMAKE__COMPILE_OBJECT rule variables
Test evaluation of per-config COMPILE_DEFINITIONS (#14037)
VS: Fix VS 10/11 .sln headers (#14038)
add_dependencies: Distinguish target v. file dependencies in error (#14050)
automoc: Use a pre-build event in VS >= 7
Handle usr-move without forcing absolute paths (#14041)
FindQt4: If Qt5 is in CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH, be sure to find Qt4 includes.
Qt4: Fix typo setting a variable for FindThreads.
FindCUDA: Use the PRE_LINK mode only for MSVC >= 10
UseJava.cmake: simplify path logic
UseJava.cmake: fix passing jars to add_jar
UseJava.cmake: accept jar targets in add_jar
UseJava.cmake: require explicit request to include jars
CPack: Avoid "format expects 'unsigned int'" warnings
cmSystemTools: Generalize TrimWhitespace to all whitespace
FindImageMagick: Search versioned suffixes (#14012)
FindRuby: improve version selection
FindQt4: Set the Qt4_FOUND variable if Qt4 is found
FindQt4: Set the INTERFACE_QT_MAJOR_VERSION for Qt4::QtCore
Document that CMAKE_AUTOMOC works with Qt 5.
FPHSA: Fix FOUND_VAR check to work with if() auto-dereference
Fix cmGeneratorExpression::Preprocess for interleaved inputs.
cmake-gui: Use the QStandardItemModel workaround until 5.1.0.
Automoc: append implicit includes after user-specified dirs
Fix the evaluation of per-config COMPILE_DEFINITIONS (#14037)
Fix new target commands documentation.
install(EXPORT): Ensure clean INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES
Report an error on IMPORTED targets with a faulty INTERFACE
Error if linked target has relative paths in INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES
Fix the Qt 5 version required to run the IncompatibleQt test.

New in CMake 2.8.11 RC 1 (Apr 19, 2013)

FindBullet: Search in per-config dirs on Windows (#13738)
Add module FindIcotool
Eclipse: add switch to disable linked resources (#13189)
Eclipse: set source path once to fix Eclipse indexer (#13596)
cmDependsC: remove unused member variable
cmDependsC: remove code duplication
cmDependsC: fix indentation
cmDepends: allow multiple dependees per depender
AddCustomCommand: Handle multiple IMPLICIT_DEPENDS files (#10048)
Add support for Texas Instruments DSP compiler (#12405)
Squish: detect version
Squish: use FPHSA
Squish: find executables also under Windows
Squish: rename squish_add_test() to squish_v3_add_test() and fix docs a bit
Squish: use ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}
Squish: add support for squish 4 (#9734)
Squish: fix new squish_v4_add_test() macro
Automoc: "inherit" FOLDER target property from target (#13688)
FPHSA: don't succeed if only checking for XX_FOUND (#13755)
CONFIGURE_PACKAGE_CONFIG_FILE(): improve generated comments
Automoc: get include dirs without stripping implicit include dirs off
configure_package_config_file: force absolute paths for usr-move
configure_package_config_file(): fix indentation
configure_package_config_file(): extend documentation
documentation: handling of relative paths by include- and link_directories()
automoc: use a std::vector instead a std::list
automoc: use the header extensions from cmMakefile
Eclipse: also detect include dirs and macro for clang (#13823)
cmLocalGenerator: remove "virtual" where not used
export files: rewrite the code for checking required targets
FPHSA: Add FOUND_VAR option to specify _FOUND variable name
FPHSA: improve documentation
Xcode: Fix nested source group handling (#12943)
Xcode: Sort source files
file: remove dead code
Add test to secure the file(GLOB empty) behavior.
OpenBSD: Install shared libraries without executable permission
OpenBSD: Add paths for Java 1.6.0/1.7.0 JRE/JDK
OpenBSD: Add path for Freetype under X.org
OpenBSD: Add paths for Tcl/Tk 8.4/8.5
OpenBSD: Add path for Lua 5.1
OpenBSD: Add paths for Qt3/Qt4
Documentation: Correct typos and grammar
Documentation: Clarify some command descriptions
Correct string literal typo (have "(NULL)" like all other cases).
Remove seemingly bogus duplicate CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME call.
VS: Avoid empty source groups in some cases (#3474)
Swap linking order of SDLmain and SDL (#0013769)
FindSDL_...: Restore dropped search paths (#13819)
find_library: Refactor internal name iteration
find_library: Simplify framework search logic
find_library: Generalize helper macro in test case
find_library: Optionally consider all names in each directory
FindBoost: Remove extra indentation level
FindBoost: Mark Boost_DIR cache entry as advanced
FindBoost: Use PATH_SUFFIXES to look in "Program Files"
FindBoost: Overhaul caching and search repeat behavior
FindBoost: Construct a clean Boost_LIBRARIES value
FindBoost: Refactor Boost_FOUND computation and version check
FindBoost: Rewrite documentation
BSD: Do not require dlfcn.h to build shared libs (#13573)
Xcode: Fix ReRunCMake.make path to cmake.check_cache (#13603)
VS10: Refactor link options collection
VS10: Honor /DELAYSIGN and /KEYFILE flags (#13601)
Document external language support policy
CTest: Allow SUBMIT_INDEX with CDash
KWSys: Submit dashboard builds to PublicDashboard
pre-commit: Update KWSys rejection message for new workflow
CTestCustom: Suppress LNK4089 warning about PSAPI
load_command: Deprecate and document pending removal
Documentation: Clarify configure_file behavior
OS X: Warn about known SDK breakage by Xcode 3.2.6
Optionally skip link dependencies on shared library files
Teach BuildDepends test to cover LINK_DEPENDS_NO_SHARED
Serialize tests for EXCLUDE_FROM_DEFAULT_BUILD
MSVC: Drop default use of /Zm1000 for VS >= 7.1
Teach find_(path|file) about Linux multiarch (#13742)
Test find_path multiarch support (#13742)
Add policy CMP0019 to skip include/link variable re-expansion
Xcode: Add frameworks search paths from link dependeny closure (#13397)
Makefile: Use modern link information for framework search paths
Documentation: Clarify handling of implicit link directories
Remove references to KWSys Process Win9x support
add_library: Document object library portability suggestion
OS X: Link with all framework search paths, not just the last
OS X: Detect implicit link directories on modern toolchains
OS X: Detect implicit linker framework search paths
Revert "load_command: Deprecate and document pending removal"
VS11: Simplify external object file handling (#13831)
KWIML: Teach ABI about 'long long' on older GNU
CMake: Skip empty link.txt lines (#13845)
ExternalProject: Allow DEPENDS on normal targets (#13849)
VS11: Fix VSExternalInclude test
target_link_libraries: Document that new sigs privatize old (#13876)
Tests: Avoid CTestLimitDashJ crash on Borland 5.8 builds
Fix use of cmTypeMacro in new command classes
Fix cmSystemTools::RenameFile race on Windows
VS 6: Create .rule file directory before file
Add ExternalData module
ExternalData: Remove compatibility with CMake < 2.8.5
ExternalData: Do not match directory names when resolving DATA{}
ExternalData: Cleanup stray TODO and typo in comments
ExternalData: Remove unused private interface
ExternalData: Improve series matching using an explicit syntax
ExternalData: Add tests covering interfaces and errors
ExternalData: Allow ()-groups in series match regex
ExternalData: Allow DATA{} syntax to reference directories
ExternalData: Generalize hash algo/ext handling
ExternalData: Add support for SHA 1 and 2 hash algorithms
ExternalData: Collapse ../ components in DATA{} paths
Fix Module.ExternalData test on Cygwin
Fix Module.ExternalData test on VS 6
ExternalData: Attach download rules to content links in IDEs
find_package: Reword _NO_INTERFACES documentation
Normalize full paths in implicit link library list
Fail early if no current working directory exists
MSVC: Fix CMAKE_CL_64 in CXX-only projects (#13896)
ExternalProject: Simplify CMake command line generation
Tests: Run ctest custom commands with VERBATIM
CMake: Add -T option to choose a generator toolset
VS: Implement generator toolset selection (#10722, #13774)
Xcode: Implement generator toolset selection (#9831, #13802)
CTest: Add options to set generator toolset
ExternalProject: Propagate the generator toolset
Tests: Consolidate ctest --build-and-test generator options
Tests: Add generator toolset support
Fix crash on empty CMAKE__COMPILER value (#13901)
file: Do not remove symlinked directories recursively (#10538)
Embarcadero: Fix default link stack/heap flags (#13912)
Avoid duplicate RPATH entries
AIX-GNU: Put implicit link directories in runtime libpath (#13909)
VS: Replace generation timestamp file atomically
VS,Xcode: Remove unused CMAKE_GENERATOR_* variables
Delete entire CMakeFiles directory when deleting CMakeCache.txt (#13756)
Tests/RunCMake: Allow tests to control build tree behavior
Test Unix Makefiles generator support for changing compilers
Xcode: Drop check for circular target dependencies
Xcode: Each target dependency edge needs a unique object (#13935)
Tests: Replace exec_program with execute_process
Tests: Generalize decision for 'make' tool supporting spaces
ExternalData: Test content link with a space in its name
FPHSA: Convert FOUND_VAR failure test to RunCMake
VS: Restore CMAKE_GENERATOR_FC variable
Xcode: Generate recommended artwork setting (#13954)
CTest: Fix ctest_update with 'HEAD' file in source tree
VS 10: Fix CMAKE__STACK_SIZE implementation (#13968)
install(EXPORT): Force absolute paths for usr-move
AIX: Do not use -brtl to create shared libraries (#13997)
add_subdirectory: Compute output dir with consistent slashes (#10072)
ExternalData: Preserve escaped semicolons during argument expansion
Avoid crash when checking property link dependencies without link info
Avoid crash when checking property compatibility without link info
Refactor RunCMake.build_command test to allow more cases
build_command: Fail early without CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM (#14005)
CTest: Fail early without PROJECT_BINARY_DIR (#14005)
FindQt4: Fix QT_QMAKE{_QMAKE => }_EXECUTABLE typo
XL: Use -qpic for position independent code (#14010)
Configure Tests/CMakeTests only with BUILD_TESTING ON
CTest: Prevent creation of unbounded number of tests in ctest (#12904)
CMake: source_group needs to check its own regex after its children (#13611)
Fix for possible Rez errors when creating dmg.
PackageMaker: Enable postflight script in component mode (#12375)
CPack: Fix RPM/Deb package names to not include "ALL_COMPONENTS_IN_ONE"
Qt4: Add SYSTEM option to include_directories.
FindQt4: set QT_VERSION_* variables sooner.
Begin post-2.8.10 development
CPack: Add automatic detection of the Unicode makensis (#9629)
BundleUtilities: Use a more inclusive REGEX for frameworks (#13600)
VS: Avoid empty, unreferenced solution folders... (#13571)
NMake: Add a test to demonstrate EmptyDepends issue (#13392)
NMake: Fix problem with empty DEPENDS args (#13392)
CMake: Remove "/STACK:10000000" from default linker flags (#12437)
Watcom: Avoid prompt from wmake about dll with no exports...
Tests: Use the right path to CPack value for running CPack tests
VS11: Allow using folders with the VS11 Express Edition (#13770)
CPack: Fix dashboard errors (#11575)
CPack: Fix dashboard warnings (#11575)
CPack: Fix dashboard errors and warnings (#11575)
CMake: Stylistic changes and documentation tweaks
CMake: Fix dashboard warnings
CMake: Fix dashboard test failure
CMake: Fix dashboard build errors and warnings
CTest: Coverage handler: expect certain output lines from gcov 4.7 (#13657)
Add CTestLimitDashJ test (#12904)
CPack/NSIS: Fix compatibility issues with prerelease NSIS (#13202)
CPack/NSIS: Add support for 64-bit NSIS (#13203)
CPack: WIX Product Icon, UI Banner, UI Dialog support (#13789)
CPackRPM fix #13898 uses IF(DEFINED var) to avoid wrong var value logic
CPack: Fix NSIS version check without release version (#9721)
Use PRE_LINK instead of PRE_BUILD when testing PRE_LINK.
FindCUDA: Remove linkage against CUDA driver library (#13084)
FindCUDA: Add support for separable compilation
FindCUDA: Added cupti library.
FindQt4: Do not use qmake from Qt5
Add $ generator expression.
Removed GenerateExportHeader warnings about old compilers
VS: Specify WinCE subsystem also for DLLs
VS: Specify WinCE subsystems correctly in VS 9 2008
enable CTEST_USE_LAUNCHERS with Ninja too
Ninja: fix usage of cldeps with ctest launchers
ExternalProject: Only run 'git fetch' when required.
ExternalProject: Do smoke tests for Git Tutorial builds.
ExternalProject: Add tests for UPDATE_COMMAND.
ExternalProject: Always do a git fetch for a remote ref.
ExternalProject: Make sure the ExternalProjectUpdate setup is available.
ExternalProject: Verify when a fetch occurs during update test.
ExternalProjectUpdateTest: Only support Git 1.6.5 and greater.
ccmake: Allow DEL key in first column
GetPrerequisites: Move tool search paths up
GetPrerequisites: Add support for objdump
GetPrerequisites: Enable test for BundleUtilities on MinGW
GetPrerequisites: Add documentation for objdump
cmDepends: No dependency-vector erasure in CheckDependencies
Added a generator for Sublime Text 2 project files.
Added some support for sublimeclang_options in the generated project file.
Changed SublimeClang include path generation to expand to absolute paths.
Cleaned up the Sublime Text 2 Generator code a bit.
Fixed support for the Ninja build system.
Added and cleaned up some comments.
The generator no longer generates an explicit list of source files.
The generator no longer generates absolute paths to the ninja.build/Makefiles.
Added a CMAKE_SUBLIMECLANG_DISABLED variable that disables SublimeClang.
Fixed Sublime Text project generation for in-source builds
Define flags in CMAKE_C(XX)_FLAGS are now included in SublimeClang settings.
SublimeText2 Gen: Improved use of define, include flags from CMAKE_C(XX)_FLAGS
SublimeText2 Gen: Fixed the issue where include directory flags used -D
Sublime Text 2 Gen: Per-source Compile flags are now saved in a separate file.
SublimeText 2 Gen: Set the sublimeclang_options_script property.
NAG: Use -PIC for Fortran position-independent code (#13932)
CPack: Add a WiX Generator (#11575)
CMake: Add TIMESTAMP subcommand to string and file commands
Introduce the abstract class cmGlobalGeneratorFactory
Add cmGlobalGeneratorFactory::GetGenerators()
Search generator in cmake::ExtraGenerators before in cmake::Generators
Allow a GeneratorFactory handling of more than one generator
Make cmGlobalGenerator::GetDocumentation() a static function
VS: Remove AddPlatformDefinitions from platform-specific generators
VS: Fix ArchitectureId of Visual Studio 10 IA64 generator
VS: Remove GetPlatformName from platform-specific generators
VS: Remove EnableLanguage from platform-specific generators
VS: Remove platform specific generator files
FindBISON: Add support for the Win flex-bison distribution
FindFLEX: Add support for the Win flex-bison distribution
VS: Remove TargetMachine for linker when checking compiler id
VS: Add CMAKE_VS_PLATFORM_NAME definition to cmMakefile
VS: Add static method to get the base of the registry
VS: Change variable type of ArchitectureId from const char* to string
VS: Change variable type of Name from const char* to string
VS: Support setting correct subsystem and entry point for WinCE
VS: Add parser for WCE.VCPlatform.config to read WinCE platforms
VS: Allow setting the name of the target platform
VS: Make DetermineCompilerId working with WinCE too
VS: Added "Deploy" at project configuration for WindowsCE targets
Add command to generate environment for a Windows CE SDK
VS: Set the correct SubSystem when determinating the CompilerId
VS: Add the entry point when compiling for WindowsCE
VS: Ignore LIBC.lib when linking the CompilerId executables
Set WINCE to 1 when building for WindowsCE
Ninja: Avoid LNK1170 linker error
Ninja: encode LINK_FLAGS to handle bash variables
Ninja: fix building from Codeblocks GUI
Ninja: remove implicit dependency on custom command outputs
Ninja: use MinGW generator code in EnableLanguage()
Ninja: the Ninja generator does not support Fortran yet.
Ninja: escape line breaks in literals
Add tests for list() argument count
Add tests for list() invalid arguments
Consolidate list() argument count testing
Add several get_property() tests
Add tests for EXCLUDE_FROM_DEFAULT_BUILD
Add property EXCLUDE_FROM_DEFAULT_BUILD_
Define property EXCLUDE_FROM_DEFAULT_BUILD
Add tests for VS_SOLUTION_GLOBAL_SECTIONS
Implement properties VS_GLOBAL_SECTION_*
Define properties VS_GLOBAL_SECTION_*
Documentation: Clarify a few subtleties
KWIML: Teach ABI.h about Aarch64
XCode generator won't infinitely parse compiler flags (bug #13354).
Correct missing parameter to CMP0018Flags call.
Remove ability to generate sublime clang files.
Update generator to use new cmGeneratorTarget api.
FindGTK2: Fix GTK2_LIBRARIES order for static gtk libraries
FindQt: improve version selection
FindQt: add some more places to look for Qt3
Tests: add MajorVersionSelection tests
Linux/PA-RISC: Link with --unique=.text.* to help binutils
FindQt: add to MajorVersionSelection test
CMakeTests: allow to call the check_cmake_test macro with a given file
list: add tests for CMP0007 behavior
GetProperty test: move doc property tests into main process
Find* (and some other): use ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR} in include()
bootstrap: use better defaults for Haiku
Haiku no longer defines __BEOS__
check for Haiku only with __HAIKU__
FindLua51: do not try to link libm on BeOS
FindGLUT: BeOS does not have libXi and libXmu
FindOpenGL: add Haiku paths
doc: fix linebreaks in generator expression documentation
ProcessorCount test: fix path to cmsysTestsCxx executable
ProcessorCount test: require SystemInformation process to work
FindOpenMP: improve documentation (#13895)
properly detect processor architecture on Windows
fix Windows processor detection
libarchive: fixed undefined left shift with signed ints
FindImageMagick: Search quantum depth suffixes (#13859)
GenEx: Test early determination of AND and OR
Enable some compiler warnings when building CMake.
Resolve warnings about unused variables.
Resolve warnings about used enum values in switch blocks.
Resolve warnings about shadowing parameters and local variables.
Resolve ambiguity warning regarding use of && and ||.
Remove references to ancient and removed parts of the code.
Always use the auto_ptr from cmsys.
Port cmGeneratorExpression to cmTarget from cmGeneratorTarget.
Split link information processing into two steps.
Revert "Move GetLinkInformation to cmGeneratorTarget"
Genex: Extract a method to parse parameters.
Genex: Ensure that $ has a parameter.
Genex: Don't segfault on $
Generate an early-return guard in target Export files.
Fix some warnings from -Wundef
Make targets depend on the link interface of their dependees.
Use cmsys::auto_ptr to manage cmCompiledGeneratorExpressions
Keep track of INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES as a vector of structs.
Add a way to print the origins of used include directories.
Tests: Fix warning about unused variable
Qt4: Add module dependencies to the IMPORTED targets
Don't crash when a target is expected but is not available.
Add test for custom command with a genex referring to a target.
GenEx: Add expressions to specify build- or install-only values
Allow generator expressions to require literals.
Add the TARGET_NAME generator expression.
Add API to extract target names from a genex string.
Add API to populate INTERFACE properties in exported targets.
Make all relevant targets available in the genex context.
Use mapped config properties to evaluate $
Make cycles in target properties ignored, not an error.
Populate the ExportedTargets member early in GenerateMainFile
Handle INTERFACE properties transitively for includes and defines.
Add CMAKE_BUILD_INTERFACE_INCLUDES build-variable.
Make linking APIs aware of 'head' target
Add LINK_LIBRARIES property for direct target link dependencies
Allow target_link_libraries with IMPORTED targets.
Add the -Wundef flag when compiling CMake.
FindQt4: Add INTERFACE includes and defines to Qt4 targets
Add the target_include_directories command.
Add the target_compile_definitions command.
Keep track of properties used to determine linker libraries.
Add API to calculate link-interface-dependent bool properties or error.
Process the INTERFACE_PIC property from linked dependencies
Fix linking to imported libraries test.
Add cmGeneratorExpression::Split() API.
Don't pass a position when determining if a target name is a literal.
Extract the AddTargetNamespace method.
Split the generator expression before extracting targets.
Split LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES export handling into dedicated method.
Allow generator expressions in LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES.
Add a way to check INTERFACE user property compatibility.
Don't include generator expressions in old-style link handling.
Document the use of generator expressions in new commands.
Add the TARGET_DEFINED generator expression
Strip consecutive semicolons when preprocessing genex strings.
Don't write a comment in the export file without the code.
Only generate one check per missing target.
Move the exported check for dependencies of targets
Move the exported check for file existence.
Add a test for the interfaces in targets exported from the build tree.
Make the BUILD_INTERFACE of export()ed targets work.
Export the INTERFACE_PIC property.
Test evaluation target via export for generator expressions
Make sure generator expressions can be used with target_include_directories.
Populate the link information cache before checking dependent properties.
Exit early if we find an inconsistent property.
Make INTERFACE determined properties readable in generator expressions.
Clear the link information in ClearLinkMaps.
Export the COMPATIBLE_INTERFACE_BOOL content properties
Add the $ expression
Automatically link to the qtmain library when linking to QtCore.
Don't wrap all targets in LINK_LIBRARIES in a TARGET_NAME genex.
Generate new-style cmake code during export.
Store includes from the same include_directories call together.
Only output includes once after the start of 'generate-time' when debugging.
Specify the target whose includes are being listed.
Output include directories as LOG messages, not warnings.
Revert "Allow target_link_libraries with IMPORTED targets."
Disallow porcelain to populate includes and defines of IMPORTED targets.
Exclude the LINK_LIBRARIES related properties from INTERFACE evaluation.
Make calculation of link-interface-dependent properties type-sensitive.
Add the COMPATIBLE_INTERFACE_STRING property.
Move GetCompileDefinitions to cmTarget.
Process COMPILE_DEFINITIONS as generator expressions in QtAutomoc.
Generate the _IMPORT_PREFIX in the non-config export file.
Add the INSTALL_PREFIX genex.
Fix TARGET_PROPERTY target extractions.
Make the Property name protected so that subclasses can use it.
Don't allow targets args in the new target commands.
Make subclasses responsible for joining content.
Use the result of converting to a unix path.
Handle reading empty properties defined by the link interface.
Advance more when preprocessing exported strings.
Make it an error for INSTALL_PREFIX to be evaluated.
Export targets to a targets file, not a Config file.
Add a way to exclude INTERFACE properties from exported targets.
Add API to check if we're reading a includes or defines property.
Add the $ generator expression.
Add includes and compile definitions with target_link_libraries.
Test workaround of bad interface include directories from depends.
Optimize genex evaluation for includes and defines.
Cache context-independent includes on evaluation.
Style: Use this-> when invoking member functions.
Process generator expressions for 'system' include directories.
Deduplicate the isGeneratorExpression method.
De-duplicate validation of genex target names.
Test printing origin of include dirs from tll().
The COMPATIBLE_INTERFACE does not affect the target it is set on.
Ensure type specific compatible interface properties do not intersect.
Fix generation of COMPILE_DEFINITIONS in DependInfo.cmake.
Fix determination of evaluating link libraries.
Only use early evaluation termination for transitive properties.
Move a special case for PIC from the genex to the cmTarget code.
Don't keep track of content determined by target property values.
Only append build interface include dirs to particular targets.
Ensure that the build interface includes have been added.
Whitelist target types in target_{include_directories,compile_definitions}
Make sure INTERFACE properties work with OBJECT libraries.
Don't allow utility or global targets in the LINKED expression.
Generate config-specific interface link libraries propeties.
Fix determination of when we're evaluating compile definitions.
Rename the IncludeDirectoriesEntry to be more generic.
Don't use LINKED where not needed.
Use the link information as a source of compile definitions and includes.
Revert "Don't allow utility or global targets in the LINKED expression."
Don't populate INTERFACE includes and defines properties in tll.
Revert "Add the $ generator expression."
Revert "find_package: Reword _NO_INTERFACES documentation"
Revert "Add a way to exclude INTERFACE properties from exported targets."
Don't add target-specific interface includes and defines to Qt 4 targets.
Fix GenerateExportHeader documentation #13936
automoc: Add source file to target early to set the linker language
Keep track of all targets seen while evaluating a genex.
Add a new Export generator for IMPORTED targets.
Handle targets in the LINK_LIBRARIES of try_compile.
Strip stray semicolons when evaluating generator expressions.
Workaround broken code where a target has itself in its link iface.
Fix DAG checker finding cycling dependencies.
Expand includes and defines transitively in 'external' genexes.
Fix constness of accessors.
Fix the tests for evaluating includes and defines.
Memoize includes and defines from interface libraries.
Remove use of TARGET_DEFINED from target_include_directories test.
Remove use of TARGET_DEFINED from the ExportImport test.
Remove use of TARGET_DEFINED from the target_link_libraries test.
Revert "Add the TARGET_DEFINED generator expression"
Only add existing targets to the Qt4 target depends properties.
Fix the cmGeneratorExpression::Split when leading chars are present.
Fix RPATH information when only a genex is used as a link library.
Mention that IMPORTED targets may be created by a find_package call.
Remove unused parameters from target_link_libraries tests.
Only process transitive interface properties for valid target names.
Restore support for target names with '+' (#13986)
Automoc: Don't create automoc targets if Qt is not used (#13999)
cmake-gui: Use -fPIE if required by Qt.
cmake-gui: Workaround bug in Qt 5.0.0 to 5.0.3 QStandardItemModel
KWIML: Teach ABI.h that VAX is big endian
Automoc: Fix automoc for OBJECT libraries.
Automoc: add OBJECT library to QtAutomoc test
spell: fix a few typos in comments