jdx/mise v2026.5.7

v2026.5.7: Lazy GitHub tokens, hardened version parsing, and faster task freshness

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A round of correctness and performance fixes: vfox-managed tools no longer prompt your password manager on every shell hook, mise upgrade stops double-printing its summary, mise settings get finally distinguishes typos from unset values, and conda installs that pulled in adwaita-icon-theme are unstuck. Plus a security pass that hardens version-string parsing against shell injection.

Fixed

• (vfox) GitHub tokens are now resolved lazily inside Lua plugins. Previously, mise hook-env, mise activate, mise completion, and even mise --help would call github.credential_command for every installed vfox tool — potentially unlocking a password manager on every prompt. The resolver is now only invoked when a Lua plugin actually issues an HTTP request to a GitHub API URL, e.g. during an install (#9816) by @jdx. Fixes #9797.

• (upgrade) mise upgrade (and mise up) no longer prints the installed-tools block twice when an upgrade also needs to uninstall an older version. The shared progress-job registry is now cleared after each phase so the subsequent uninstall renders cleanly (#9779) by @jdx. Fixes #9774.

• (settings) mise settings get distinguishes between a known setting that hasn't been set and a typo:

  $ mise settings get python.compile
  mise ERROR Setting [python.compile] is not set
  $ mise settings get not.a.real.setting
  mise ERROR Unknown setting: not.a.real.setting

  Previously both returned Unknown setting, since Option<T> fields skipped by TOML serialization were indistinguishable from missing keys (#9818) by @jdx.

• (backend) Several backends (aqua, github/gitlab/forgejo, http, s3, ubi, vfox, conda, Windows npm) reported bin-paths pointing at the concrete resolved install dir (e.g. installs/tiny/1.0.0/...) instead of the stable runtime symlink for the requested label (e.g. installs/tiny/latest/...). A new runtime_path_for_install_path helper remaps backend-discovered absolute paths onto the runtime path while leaving explicit relative bin_path values alone (#9606) by @risu729.

• (conda) mise use -g imagemagick (and other tools pulling in adwaita-icon-theme) failed with conda solve failed: encountered duplicate records for adwaita-icon-theme-40.1.1-.... rattler-solve detects duplicates by DistArchiveIdentifier rather than URL, so when conda-forge served the same archive under multiple CDN URLs, the existing URL-based dedup wasn't enough. Dedup now uses r.identifier, the exact key the solver uses (#9831) by @jdx. Fixes #9829.

Added

• (github) github.credential_command now runs through the configured default inline shell (instead of hardcoded sh -c) and is invoked with MISE_CREDENTIAL_HOST and MISE_CREDENTIAL_PROVIDER in the environment. The deprecated $1 / ${1} hostname positional argument continues to work for sh-compatible shells (ash, bash, dash, ksh, sh, zsh); a deprecation warning lands in 2026.11.0 and removal is planned for 2027.11.0 (#9664) by @risu729.

Performance

• (aqua) The baked aqua standard-registry package and alias lookup tables are now generated as static phf::Maps at build time via phf_codegen, instead of lazy runtime HashMaps. Warmed lookup is comparable, but first-use no longer allocates ~115 KiB of heap or builds a 2,179-entry bucket table (#9763) by @risu729.

• (task) When task.source_freshness_hash_contents = true, mise now caches each source file's blake3 hash keyed by (size, mtime_secs, mtime_nanos) — git's stat-info trick — in a per-task file under STATE/task-sources/. Unchanged files are skipped on subsequent runs; entries for files removed from sources are pruned automatically (#9819) by @jdx. See discussion #9802.

Security

• Reject shell metacharacters in version strings at the ToolRequest boundary (#9814) by @jdx. ToolRequest::new now validates version, prefix, ref/*, sub-*, and path: requests, rejecting $, backticks, quotes, \, control chars, and .. traversal. This single change neutralizes the CRITICAL RCE class flagged against vfox-ag, vfox-bfs, vfox-bpkg, vfox-chezscheme, vfox-redis, vfox-yarn, and shell-injection findings on clickhouse, leiningen, pipenv, poetry, azure-functions-core-tools, carthage, and android-sdk, since no Lua hook can observe a hostile ctx.version / ctx.rootPath. Real-world strings like 1.2.3-beta, lts/hydrogen, 3.12.0a1, and nightly continue to validate. The PR also tightens workflow_dispatch input validation in the COPR, PPA, npm-publish, and Docker workflows.

Registry

• Replace unsupported exe = ... options across ~30 GitHub/GitLab registry entries (astro, babashka, coursier, glab, odin, openbao, purescript, and many more) (#9587) by @risu729. Two entries gained real config to fix Linux installs:
  • solidity now uses bin = "solc" so the installed binary matches the upstream solc-static-linux asset.
  • sourcery now uses format = "tar.gz" because the upstream Linux asset is gzip-compressed despite its .tar.xz filename.
• Update pi to earendil-works/pi (#9792) by @garysassano.

Documentation

• (aliases) Fix the Aliased Versions example and drop the stale asdf callout (#9830) by @jdx.

Full Changelog: v2026.5.6...v2026.5.7

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