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AWS CDK Toolkit CLI, the command line tool for CDK apps
Last release 3 days ago
01 Oct 2026
Ships on a steady schedule
a new release about every 2 weeks
Most releases are documented
notes for 46 of the last 60 stable releases
12 versions withdrawn
withdrawn after publishing
8 years old
695 releases · first in 2018
One column per quarter.
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toolkit-lib: configurable stack stabilization polling interval on deploy, destroy and prepareStack (#1724) (65f7430), closes #1723 #1709 #1710 #1710
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toolkit-lib: configurable stack event polling interval on deploy and destroy (#1710) (8580fe4), closes #1709
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cli: Integrate with express mode using --express flag for deploy, destroy, and bootstrap
aws-cdk: surface custom resource Lambda logs on deployment failure
aws-cdk: detailed ECS service and container-level logs on CDK deployment failures
--debug-app enables jsii stack traces
cli: add --region as a global CLI option (#1506) (ae2349b), closes #928
cdk diagnose displays the root cause of a past stack deployment failure
cdk diagnose displays the root cause of a past stack deployment failure (#1378) (acefbf8)cdk orphan command detaches resources from a stack, allowing resource type upgrades (behind --unstable) (#1399) (1d0866e)cdk deploy --method=execute-change-set for two-step deployment workflows (#1271) (5770c26)cdk diff (#1415) (cdd0195), closes #952cli: show diff and prompt for deploy on non-addition changes
toolkit-lib: honor per-notice dynamicValues separator (#1397) (82715b6), closes aws/aws-cdk#31963
toolkit-lib: Implement Hotswap with CCAPIs for broader resource coverage and improve intrinsic function resolution for Get::Attr
"duplicate Export names" error deploying nested stacks with Fn::Join exports (#1307) (1fe7075), closes #1292
cli: add publish-assets command for asset publishing without deployment
cli: new cdk diff --method flag to allow enforcing change set usage
cli: add --concurrency flag to cdk destroy
cli: --revert-drift option to bring actual resource states in line with template definitions
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cli: concurrent asset builds (#983) (3a415c7), closes #226
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## 1.16.1 (2026-02-26)
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cdk-assets: redact secret-bearing flag values from logged docker commands ( #1904 ) ( 0f07983 ), closes #1763 #1849 #0 #1 #1 #1 #2 #2 #2 #3 #3 #3 #3
cdk-assets-lib: support --build-context flag for docker image builds
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