Release Notes

This release does not include the powerpc64le-unknown-linux-musl target due to a build issue. See #9793 for details. If this change affects you, please file an issue with your use-case.

Enhancements

• Omit empty resolution markers in lockfile (#9738)
• Add --install-dir to to uv python install and uninstall commands (#7920)
• Add --show-urls and --only-downloads to uv python list (#8062)
• Add uv python list --all-arches (#9782)
• Add uv run --gui-script flag for running Python scripts with pythonw.exe (#9152)
• Allow --gui-script on Unix (#9787)
• Allow download of Python distribution variants optimized for newer x86_64 microarchitectures (#9781)
• Allow execution of pyw files on Unix (#9759)
• Allow users to specify URLs in project.dependencies and tool.uv.sources (#9718)
• Encode mutually-incompatible pairs of markers (#9444)
• Improve the error message when a Python install request is not valid (#9783)
• Preserve directory-level standalone build symlinks (#9723)
• Add support for uv publish --index <name> (#9694)
• Reframe --locked and --frozen as --check operations for uv lock (#9662)
• Rename Python install scratch directory from .cache -> .temp (#9756)
• Enable uv tool uninstall uv on Windows (#8963)
• Improve self-dependency hint to make shadowing clear (#9716)
• Refactor unavailable metadata to shrink the resolver (#9769)
• Show 'depends on itself' for proxy packages (#9717)
• Show a dedicated error for missing subdirectories (#9761)
• Show a dedicated hint for missing git+ prefixes (#9789)

Performance

• Eagerly error when parsing pyproject.toml requirements (#9704)
• Use copy-on-write when normalizing paths (#9710)

Bug fixes

• Avoid enforcing non-conflicts in uv export (#9751)
• Don't drop comments between items in TOML tables (#9784)
• Don't fail with --no-build when static metadata is available (#9785)
• Don't filter non-patch registry version (#9736)
• Don't read metadata from stale .egg-info files (#9760)
• Enforce correctness of self-dependencies (#9705)
• Fix projects's typo in resolver error messages (#9708)
• Ignore . prefixed directories during managed Python installation discovery (#9786)
• Improve handling of invalid virtual environments during interpreter discovery (#8086)
• Normalize relative paths when --project is specified (#9709)
• Respect self-constraints on recursive extras (#9714)
• Respect user settings for tracing coloring (#9733)
• Retry on tar extraction errors (#9753)
• Add conflict markers to the lock file (#9370)
• De-duplicate resolution markers (#9780)
• Avoid 403 error hint for PyTorch URLs (#9750)
• Avoid treating non-existent --find-links as relative URLs (#9720)
• Omit Windows Store python3.13.exe et al (#9679)
• Replace executables with broken symlinks during uv python install (#9706)

Documentation

• Fix build failure links (#9740)

Install uv 0.5.8

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/0.5.8/uv-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/0.5.8/uv-installer.ps1 | iex"

Download uv 0.5.8