jdx/mise v2026.5.16

v2026.5.16: versions-host metadata, fork-bomb fixes, and friendlier upgrades

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Added

• (github) Use the shared mise-versions host for release metadata and artifact attestations before falling back to api.github.com, dramatically cutting anonymous GitHub API usage in CI/Docker (#10127 by @jdx).
• (node) New node.npm_shim setting (MISE_NODE_NPM_SHIM) to opt out of the bundled npm wrapper, letting corepack manage bin/npm cleanly (#10082 by @jjb).
• (npm) New allow_builds tool option for npm-backend installs that expands to --allow-build=<pkg> for aube and pnpm, accepting a string, array, or true for all builds (#10116 by @jdx).

Fixed

• (backend) Strip the system shims dir from dependency_env PATH to prevent npm/go shim re-entry fork-bombs in devcontainer/Docker setups using mise install --system (#10019 by @andrewjamesbrown).
• (backend) Improve libc detection on musl distros so installing gcompat on Alpine no longer flips mise to glibc binaries (#10020 by @thespags).
• (aqua) Skip in-place link creation when src and dst alias the same inode (fixes godot install on macOS/APFS) (#10012 by @tvararu).
• (aqua) Lock github_content packages using raw GitHub content URLs instead of archive URLs (#10102 by @risu729).
• (toolset) hook-env and other prefer-offline flows no longer fetch remote versions to resolve concrete/latest/prefix:* specs, speeding up shells with many fuzzy tools (#10098 by @jdx).
• (upgrade) Preserve installed versions still pinned by other tracked project lockfiles during upgrade cleanup (#10114 by @jdx).
• (upgrade) Improve current version detection so prefix requests like go = "1.25" show the best matching installed version in summaries (#9973 by @jdx).
• (lock) Allow mise lock and mise upgrade to refresh mise.lock even when locked = true is set (#10111 by @jdx).
• (install) Reject install requests whose resolved backend is in disable_backends, including explicit syntax like ubi:owner/repo (#9905 by @risu729).
• (use) Reject tool version strings that start with - (e.g. mise use dummy@--version) (#10113 by @jdx).
• (en) Preserve MISE_ENV / -E profile when an activated subshell sources mise activate (#10124 by @jdx).
• (unset) Respect MISE_GLOBAL_CONFIG_FILE when running mise unset from $HOME, matching mise set/use (#10105 by @jdx).
• (task) Set config_root on tasks loaded from global config so {{config_root}} renders correctly (#10106 by @jdx).
• (task) Render templates and expand ~/ in sandbox allow_read / allow_write paths (#10112 by @jdx).
• (shim) Skip dot-prefixed (hidden) executables when generating shims (#10123 by @jdx).
• (pipx) Combine --pip-args=VALUE into a single argv element so pipx's argparse accepts values starting with -- (#10120 by @iloveitaly).
• (security) Apply url_replacements to the GitHub attestations API base URL (#9971 by @SlaterByte).
• Show the mise version in friendly error output (#10109 by @jdx).
• (copr) Increase build timeout (#10071 by @jdx).

Performance

• Cache repeated successful path canonicalization across hot PATH/shim/activation lookups (#10068 by @jdx).

Changed

• Registry: use the npm backend for npm on Windows (aqua's standalone npm/cli tarball is broken on Windows) (#10101 by @risu729).
• Registry: allow narrow dependency builds for npm-primary tools (wrangler, gemini-cli, vercel, codebuff, jules, orval, serverless), and drop npm fallbacks for ast-grep, lefthook, claude, code (#9916 by @risu729).
• Registry: add modem-dev/hunk (#10051 by @naoki-mizuno), wacli (#10043 by @dovocoder), liquibase via the github backend (#10052 by @benberryallwood), longbridge-terminal (#10073 by @hogan-yuan), and make aube more resilient (#10092 by @bgeron, #10110).

Documentation

• Fix Scoop installation section (#10059 by @ofek).
• Clarify untrusted config behavior (#10097 by @jdx).
• Remove outdated terraform main.tf reference (#10099 by @risu729).
• Remove broken "How I Use mise" link (#10081 by @HYP3R00T).

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