# Announcing Chapel 2.9!

**URL:** <https://chapel.discourse.group/t/announcing-chapel-2-9/50451>\
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**Created:** [June 18, 2026, 9:30pm UTC](https://chapel.discourse.group/t/announcing-chapel-2-9/50451 "2026-06-18T21:30:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![bradcray](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/chapel.discourse.group/bradcray/32/72_2.png) [@bradcray](https://chapel.discourse.group/u/bradcray)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 9:30pm UTC](https://chapel.discourse.group/t/announcing-chapel-2-9/50451/1 "2026-06-18T21:30:21Z")

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Hello Chapel Community —

Today, we're very happy to announce the release of Chapel version 2.9! This release focuses on addressing user-reported feature requests and bugs, improvements to tools, and a brand-new capability to dynamically load parallel and distributed Chapel libraries. For further details, please refer to the 2.9 release announcement on the Chapel blog:

> **[Announcing Chapel 2.9!](https://chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/announcing-chapel-2.9/)**
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> Highlights from the June 2026 release of Chapel 2.9

And thanks to [all the developers](https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/blob/release/2.9/CONTRIBUTORS.md) who contributed to this release!

Sincerely,  
-Brad Chamberlain