0.5.0
Release Notes
Since the launch of Python version, project, and tool management capabilities back in August, we've seen extraordinary adoption of uv. We've been iterating rapidly: adding new features, fixing bugs, and improving the user experience. Despite moving quickly, stability and compatibility have been a major focus — we've made thirty releases since our last breaking change. Consequently, we've accumulated various changes that improve correctness and user experience, but could break some workflows. This release contains those changes; many have been marked as breaking out of an abundance of caution. We expect most users to be able to upgrade without making changes.
Breaking changes
-
Use base executable to set virtualenv Python path (#8481)
Previously, uv canonicalized the path to the Python executable when setting the Python path in created virtual environments. This behavior had several undesirable effects: it would bypass stabilized version directories (as constructed by Homebrew) and it was not consistent with the Python standard library's behavior. Now, uv uses the
sys._base_executable
path. -
Use XDG (i.e.
~/.local/bin
) instead of the Cargo home directory in the installer (#8420)Previously, uv's installer used
$CARGO_HOME
or~/.cargo/bin
for its target install directory. It's been a longstanding complaint that uv uses this directory, as there's no relationship to Cargo. Now, uv will be installed into$XDG_BIN_HOME
,$XDG_DATA_HOME/../bin
, or~/.local/bin
(in that order). Note that$UV_INSTALL_DIR
can always be used to override the target directory. Upgrading withuv self update
will not move uv to the new install directory. -
Discover and respect
.python-version
files in parent directories (#6370)Previously, uv only read
.python-version
files from the working directory. Now, uv will check parent directories for.python-version
files; however uv will not search for.python-version
files beyond project boundaries. The new behavior is better aligned with that ofpyenv
and Rye. -
Error when disallowed settings are defined in
uv.toml
(#8550)Some settings can only be defined in the
pyproject.toml
. Previously, uv would ignore these settings when present in theuv.toml
. Now, uv will error to avoid confusion about why the settings are not respected. -
Implement PEP 440-compliant local version semantics (#8797)
Previously, uv's implementation of local versions (e.g.
2.0+cpu
) was not compliant with the specification due to the technical complexity of implementing the local version semantics in the PubGrub algorithm. Thanks to the work of @ericmarkmartin, uv now has a spec-compliant implementation. Namely, uv will now allow a request fortorch==2.1.0
to install[email protected]+cpu
regardless of whether[email protected]
(without a local tag) actually exists. -
Treat the base Conda environment as a system environment (#7691)
Previously, uv would not distinguish between the base and other Conda environments. Now, uv uses
CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV
and the namesbase
anddefault
to determine if an environment active viaCONDA_PREFIX
is the base environment. If the base environment is active, the--system
flag must be used to mutate it. -
Do not allow pre-releases when the
!=
operator is used (#7974)Previously, uv would use the presence of a pre-release specifier in a version specifier as an opt-in to allow pre-release versions during resolution. The new behavior does not allow pre-releases when an inequals operator is used, e.g.,
!= 2.0a1
. -
Prefer
USERPROFILE
overFOLDERID_Profile
when selecting a home directory on Windows (#8048)This change is a side-effect of switching from the
directories
crate toetcetera
for determining canonical system paths. IfUSERPROFILE
is not set, the behavior will be unchanged. -
Improve interactions between color environment variables and CLI options (#8215)
Previously, uv would respect the
FORCE_COLOR
andNO_COLOR
environment variables over the--color
flag. Now, when the--color
flag is explicitly provided, uv will respect it over the environment variables. -
Make
allow-insecure-host
a global option (#8476)Previously, this option was only available in some parts of uv. Now,
--allow-insecure-host
can be provided to any command. For consistency, theallow-insecure-host
setting has been removed from the[tool.uv.pip]
configuration in favor of[tool.uv]
. -
Only write
.python-version
files duringuv init
for workspace members if the version differs (#8897)Previously, uv would create a
.python-version
file for workspace members duringuv init
. Now, uv will only do so if the version differs from the.python-version
file in the workspace root since uv will respect.python-version
files in parent directories.
Enhancements
- Add
uv tree --outdated
(#8893) - Add armv8l alias for armv7l to support arm 32-bit compatibility mode (#8881)
- Add support for
pip list --outdated
(#8872) - Allow semicolons directly after direct URLs (#8836)
- Enable support for arbitrary git transports (#8769)
- Improve Python discovery source messages (#8890)
- Show dedicated error for trailing
;
on URL and path requirements (#8835) - Add progress bar for
uv cache clean
(#8857) - Warn on failure to query system configuration file (#8829)
Preview features
- Add support for building basic source distributions with the experimental uv build backend (#8886)
Bug fixes
- Respect dynamic version updates in
uv lock
(#8867) - Respect fork markers in
--resolution-mode=lowest-direct
(#8839)
Documentation
- Add further examples of git+https support (#8841)
- Add installer variables to environment reference (#8874)
- Add note on private classifier (#8783)
- Update pip-and-uv strictness example (#8822)
- Fix
uv python install
docs to use an existing PyPy version (#8845) - Document how to mimic
--verbose
withRUST_LOG
(#8858)
Install uv 0.5.0
Install prebuilt binaries via shell script
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/0.5.0/uv-installer.sh | sh
Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/0.5.0/uv-installer.ps1 | iex"
Download uv 0.5.0
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