jdx/mise v2026.5.17

v2026.5.17: Custom aqua registry cache and Windows fixes

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A catch-up release for the tag that shipped the compiled custom aqua registry cache, several Windows task/shim fixes, and a handful of backend install improvements. This release is backfilled without binary assets; use v2026.5.18 or newer for downloadable artifacts.

Added

• (aqua) Add a compiled custom registry cache to speed up aqua registry lookups and reduce repeated parsing work (#9583 by @jdx).

Fixed

• (upgrade) Handle a lone v prefix in --bump latest queries (#10130 by @jdx).
• (env) Force the Unix environment key to uppercase PATH, avoiding mixed-case path handling surprises (#9927 by @jdx).
• (http) Limit fallback retries against the shared versions host (#10142 by @jdx).
• (bun) Use Bun's native windows-arm64 build for Bun 1.3.10 and newer (#10150 by @M1noa).
• (task) Honor explicit and quoted shell paths on Windows (#10148 by @M1noa).
• (task) Convert PATH to /cygdrive form for Cygwin bash tasks on Windows (#10147 by @M1noa).
• (ui) Honor color settings in interactive prompt themes (#10151 by @M1noa).
• (pipx) Upgrade the shared pip environment when using version constraints (#10138 by @jdx).
• (shim) Refresh stale Windows shims after a mise version update (#10152 by @M1noa).
• (completion) Keep global -C/--cd usable in task argument completion (#10153 by @M1noa).
• (github) Handle x86 release assets as x64 fallbacks where upstreams publish mismatched naming (#10103 by @jdx).
• (github) Strip OpenGrep platform suffixes before asset matching (#10166 by @jdx).
• (github) Penalize certificate assets as metadata so they are not selected as install archives (#10158 by @jdx).

Changed

• Registry: add herdr via github:ogulcancelik/herdr (#10154 by @ogulcan).
• Registry: add databricks-cli via aqua:databricks/cli (#10072 by @nstrug).
• (spm) Parse SwiftPM tool options locally (#9959 by @jdx).

Documentation

• Split glossary aliases into Tool Aliases and Shell Aliases (#9983 by @BenjaminCHr).
• Update the webpage tooling copy to use current tools (#10170 by @jdx).

Full Changelog: v2026.5.16...v2026.5.17

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