# Chapel 2.5 is now available! **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [June 12, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://chapel.discourse.group/t/chapel-2-5-is-now-available/43206 "2025-06-12T20:56:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**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 12, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://chapel.discourse.group/t/chapel-2-5-is-now-available/43206/1 "2025-06-12T20:56:38Z")
Hello Chapel Community — Today, we are releasing Chapel 2.5, whose highlights include: - a new scalable implementation of our standard library's sort routine - a new _editions_ feature for experimenting with breaking changes in a safe manner - a new aliasing implementation of `reshape()` for local arrays - initial support for debugging using the LLVM back-end and VS Code - initial support for dynamically loading C libraries and calling into them - improvements in terms of Python interoperability - a new technical note on performance debugging - improvements to the Dyno compiler front-end and the tools it supports and much, much more! You can read more about these changes in the [2.5 release announcement](https://chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/announcing-chapel-2.5/) on the Chapel blog and in the [CHANGES.md](https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/blob/release/2.5/CHANGES.md) file. Chapel 2.5 can be installed in all the usual ways, including Linux package managers, Homebrew, Docker, RPMs, source builds, and Spack (though this last one may still take a few days to work through the system). For further details on installing, see: [Download and Install Chapel](https://chapel-lang.org/download/) As always, thanks to [everyone who contributed to Chapel 2.5](https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/blob/release/2.5/CONTRIBUTORS.md)—we appreciate your help and support! On behalf of the Chapel community, -Brad