# Chapel 2.6 is out now!

**URL:** <https://chapel.discourse.group/t/chapel-2-6-is-out-now/45120>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [September 19, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://chapel.discourse.group/t/chapel-2-6-is-out-now/45120 "2025-09-19T18:52:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [September 19, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://chapel.discourse.group/t/chapel-2-6-is-out-now/45120/1 "2025-09-19T18:52:25Z")

</div>

Hello Chapel Community —

I'm happy to announce that Chapel 2.6 was released yesterday! Highlights include:

- Improvements to the new `DynamicLoading` module
- Debugging enhancements
- Better unit testing support with Mason and VSCode
- Numerous documentation improvements
- A number of other advances in Chapel's tooling and packaging

And much more… For more details and highlights, please see the Chapel 2.6 release announcement:

> **[Announcing Chapel 2.6!](https://chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/announcing-chapel-2.6/)**
>
> Highlights from the September 2025 release of Chapel 2.6

And big thanks to everyone who [contributed](https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/blob/release/2.6/CONTRIBUTORS.md) to Chapel 2.6!

On behalf of the Chapel community,  
-Brad