astral-sh/uv 0.9.18

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Release Notes

Released on 2025-12-16.

Enhancements

• Add value hints to command line arguments to improve shell completion accuracy (#17080)
• Improve error handling in uv publish (#17096)
• Improve rendering of multiline error messages (#17132)
• Support redirects in uv publish (#17130)
• Include Docker images with the alpine version, e.g., python3.x-alpine3.23 (#17100)

Configuration

• Accept --torch-backend in [tool.uv] (#17116)

Performance

• Speed up uv cache size (#17015)
• Initialize S3 signer once (#17092)

Bug fixes

• Avoid panics due to reads on failed requests (#17098)
• Enforce latest-version in @latest requests (#17114)
• Explicitly set EntryType for file entries in tar (#17043)
• Ignore pyproject.toml index username in lockfile comparison (#16995)
• Relax error when using uv add with UV_GIT_LFS set (#17127)
• Support file locks on ExFAT on macOS (#17115)
• Change schema for exclude-newer into optional string (#17121)

Documentation

• Drop arm musl caveat from Docker documentation (#17111)
• Fix version reference in resolver example (#17085)
• Better documentation for exclude-newer* (#17079)

Install uv 0.9.18

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/0.9.18/uv-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/0.9.18/uv-installer.ps1 | iex"

Download uv 0.9.18

Verifying GitHub Artifact Attestations

The artifacts in this release have attestations generated with GitHub Artifact Attestations. These can be verified by using the GitHub CLI:

gh attestation verify <file-path of downloaded artifact> --repo astral-sh/uv

You can also download the attestation from GitHub and verify against that directly:

gh attestation verify <file-path of downloaded artifact> --bundle <file-path of downloaded attestation>