# VTK 9.5.0 Release
**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-9-5-0-release/15018
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [December 13, 2024, 2:17pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-9-5-0-release/15018 "2024-12-13T14:17:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2024, 2:17pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-9-5-0-release/15018/1 "2024-12-13T14:17:55Z")
# VTK Release Plan
As announced in this [post](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-9-4-0-release/14577), VTK now follow a regular (calendar-based) release plan.
- Expect a minor release every 6 months with intermediate patch releases in between, as needed.
- Depending on the features added to the release, the release may become a major release.
- The master and release branches will split one month and a half before the scheduled release date. Please ensure that all feature branches are merged before the split.
- A proposed detailed release plan will be announced a few weeks before each release.
Following this schedule, the next planned releases are as follows:
- VTK v9.5.0 is planned for **May 2025**
- VTK v9.6.0 is planned for **December 2025**
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-9-5-0-release/15018/2 "2025-04-02T15:04:02Z")
Here is the precise planning for VTK v9.5.0 release:
- 05/12/2025: Release split, **no new features will be going into VTK 9.5.0 after this date**
- 05/12/2025 to 06/17/2025: Release candidates are published and tested. Critical bug fixes are integrated into the VTK release branch.
- 06/17/2025: VTK 9.5.0 is released.
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### Author:  [@akaszynski](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/akaszynski)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-9-5-0-release/15018/3 "2025-04-22T16:19:02Z")
Can we expect Python Linux ARM wheels to be uploaded to PyPI on this release?
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2025, 7:34pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-9-5-0-release/15018/4 "2025-04-22T19:34:01Z")
We are building Python Linux ARM wheels weekly now, so I expect they will go up on PyPI for the 9.5 release.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2025, 8:10am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-9-5-0-release/15018/5 "2025-05-20T08:10:08Z")
9.5.0-rc1 has been tagged: [VTK 9.5.0.rc1](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-9-5-0-rc1/15630)
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2025, 9:48am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-9-5-0-release/15018/6 "2025-06-03T09:48:45Z")
We are delaying the release a bit, the plan has been updated accordingly.
Excpect the release on June 17th.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-9-5-0-release/15018/7 "2025-06-19T16:07:59Z")
VTK release is ongoing, please do not merge to `release` branch.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-9-5-0-release/15018/8 "2025-06-20T16:08:59Z")
VTK v9.5.0 has been tagged, please resume merging.
Binaries and announcements should come shortly.
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### Author:  [@sankhesh](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/sankhesh)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2025, 7:58pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-9-5-0-release/15018/9 "2025-06-24T19:58:50Z")
We are excited to announce the release of VTK v9.5.0 - [https://www.kitware.com/vtk-9-5-0/](https://www.kitware.com/vtk-9-5-0/).
For detailed release notes, please visit: [9.5 - VTK documentation](https://docs.vtk.org/en/latest/release_details/9.5.html).
You can find the documentation and source tarballs here: [Download | VTK](https://vtk.org/download/).
Python wheels are available on PyPI: [vtk·PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/vtk/9.5.0/).
Thank you for your continued support!