jdx/mise v2026.9.16

v2026.9.16: Per-tool libc for aqua tools, monorepo task path aliases, and packslip pins that survive repo renames

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Aqua tools can now choose glibc or musl builds one tool at a time, and monorepo roots can get short task path aliases. Packslip tools keep installing after their GitHub or GitLab repository is renamed, because mise now pins them by repository ID, recorded in a new lockfile revision 3. SLSA provenance checks now require the expected signer identity. This release also fixes regressions in mise run --no-timings, cargo +nightly and the outdated/upgrade version comparison, and speeds up shims and config loading.

Added

• Per-tool libc for aqua tools. On glibc Linux, mise prefers a release's gnu build even when the aqua registry names the musl one. That breaks tools whose musl build is the fully static one, such as aqua:domcyrus/rustnet. You can now pick the build for a single tool instead of changing the global libc setting. #13701

  [tools]
  "aqua:domcyrus/rustnet" = { version = "latest", libc = "musl" }

  The option accepts glibc (or gnu) and musl. mise never falls back to the other libc for that tool. The option applies to install, mise lock, and checksum, signature and provenance lookups, and it is recorded in the lockfile's tool options. A platform that already names a libc (a musl host or a linux-*-musl lockfile platform) still wins. A version that is already installed keeps its build until you run mise install --force. mise ls-remote still uses the host libc. If a registry template uses a variable named libc, set it as vars.libc.

• Path aliases for monorepo tasks. Deeply nested config roots can now have a short name. #13756

  monorepo_root = true
  
  [monorepo]
  config_roots = ["foo/bar/baz/abc/123"]
  
  [monorepo.path_aliases]
  "123" = "foo/bar/baz/abc/123"

  mise run //123:build runs //foo/bar/baz/abc/123:build. Aliases also work in task dependencies, in patterns like //123:*, and in child paths like //123/sub:build. Each alias must be a single path segment, must point at a configured root, and can't overlap an existing root path. A task's full path is still its canonical name.

• Packslip tools keep installing after a repository rename. mise now pins GitHub and GitLab packslip projects by the repository ID recorded in the signing certificate, not only by name. If old/tool is renamed to new/tool under the same owner, packslip:github.com/old/tool keeps installing and prints a warning once, asking you to update the config. You don't need mise packslip forget. mise refuses a transfer to another owner. It also refuses a different repository that takes over a pinned name, which is how a deleted and re-created name looks. To accept either one, run mise packslip forget for the old name, and for a re-created repository also remove the tool's mise.lock entries. #13702, #13738

  In lockfile revision 3, the IDs are stored as:

  [tools.hk."platforms.linux-x64"]
  repository_ids = { repository = "922514152", owner = "216188" }

• mise dot track --allow-plaintext. Directly tracking a file with a credential-like name (for example ~/commit-mossy-token.md) used to report success while every history save quietly left the file out. mise dot track now asks whether to save the file in plaintext, and the default answer is No. In non-interactive use, pass --allow-plaintext. --yes does not approve plaintext. The choice is saved as allow_plaintext = true on the [dotfiles] entry. For real credentials, use --encrypt. #13749

• Registry: mise use mbx now resolves to mr-boxington. #13752

Fixed

• mise outdated and upgrade warnings no longer offer an older release as an update when the installed version has a v or V prefix. For example, v2.1.280 → 2.1.278 was shown as an update. Versions that differ only in build metadata (for example 1.36.4+k3s1 and 1.36.4+k3s2) are now treated as equal. #13690 (@himkt)
• mise run --no-cache and mise tasks run --no-cache now clone remote git:: task includes again, and fetch remote tasks that run as dependencies again. Before, both kept using the cached copy. #13697 (@irisTa56)
• mise run --no-timings hides each task's "Finished in …" line again, not only the run total. It also overrides MISE_TASK_TIMINGS=1. This had regressed in v2025.11.2. #13718
• cargo +nightly works again with rust = "nightly". Since 2026.8.6 mise installs a dated nightly, so rustup had no toolchain named nightly. Depending on rustup's auto-install setting, cargo +nightly then either failed or downloaded a second, unpinned nightly. mise now also sets up rustup's nightly-<host> toolchain from the pinned nightly, using reflinks or hardlinks. It leaves alone a rustup nightly that is newer or has extra components or targets. Explicitly dated requests such as nightly-2026-08-13 don't touch it. Existing installs pick this up on their next nightly install, or right away with mise install -f rust. #13707
• Running mise dot track again on a path that is already tracked now reports "already tracked". It no longer prompts, rewrites the config, or records an empty checkpoint. Changed file contents and flags that change the declaration (such as --no-autosave) are still saved. #13648
• Blob-pack downloads from the remote cache now retry transient stream errors, the same way single blob downloads do. #13715

Security

• SLSA provenance must come from the expected signer. Before, any valid Sigstore signature, even from an unrelated workflow, passed SLSA verification. mise now checks the certificate's URI identity and OIDC issuer against the values configured for the tool:

  • aqua registry entries: signer_identity and signer_issuer under slsa_provenance
  • github: tools: the slsa_signer_identity and slsa_signer_issuer tool options (the identity supports {{version}} templating)
  • vfox plugins: slsa_signer_identity and slsa_signer_issuer returned from PreInstall

  If a tool doesn't configure both values, mise skips the SLSA check and uses any other verification available. For now this applies to the bundled aqua packages that have SLSA metadata but no signer fields. SLSA lock entries are checked again on every install, even when a checksum is present. #13725

• Public-key DSSE bundles used by aqua and vfox verification must now have a SHA-256 subject digest that matches the downloaded artifact. Before, a valid bundle could be reused to verify a different download. #13721

Performance

• Shims no longer run rustup checks when rust is configured alongside other tools. The same goes for mise exec with auto-install disabled. One report measured the go shim at about 31 ms with rust in the config, compared with 12 ms without it. mise install, and mise exec with auto-install on, still detect and repair missing rustup components. #13705
• Config loading and fuzzy version resolution (for example node = "24") do less work: plugin shorthands are built without checking every registry tool's backends, global-config checks stop resolving symlinks for every tool, and fuzzy matching no longer compiles regexes. #13694, #13695, #13696

Documentation

• The task docs now give the correct default job count (8). They also describe the default output mode correctly: prefix when tasks run in parallel and interleave when they run in sequence. #13716

Breaking Changes

• Lockfile revision 3. New and empty mise.lock files are written as lockfile_version = 3, and older mise versions reject them. Existing lockfiles keep their revision when mise writes to them. When a revision 2 lockfile gets packslip repository IDs, mise warns and leaves them out. To store them, run mise lock --upgrade once everyone who shares the lockfile is on this release.
• SLSA checks for locked tools. A lockfile entry that requires SLSA now fails with an explanation if the tool has no expected signer configured. To fix it, configure the signer or refresh the entry with mise lock.
• Dotfiles history shared across machines. Older mise versions can't read enrollment metadata that includes allow_plaintext. Upgrade every machine that shares the history before you use --allow-plaintext.

New Contributors

• @irisTa56 made their first contribution in #13697

Full Changelog: vfox-v2026.9.17...v2026.9.16

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