• ✨ Adds CPython 3.15 support for iOS and Android (#2857, #2858)
• ✨ Adds Android improvements for building NumPy and related packages, including auditwheel support, pkg-config and Fortran configuration, and the xbuild-files option (#2695)
• ✨ Adds CIBUILDWHEEL_BUILD_IDENTIFIER environment variable set to the current build identifier (e.g. cp311-manylinux_x86_64) during per-build steps (#2872)
• 🔐 Adds SHA256 verification for direct downloads of Python interpreters, virtualenv, and python-build-standalone assets (#2873)
• 🔐 Adds tarfile extraction filter for safe archive extraction (#2856)
• 🐛 Fixes detection of musl libc when downloading python-build-standalone, which previously always selected the gnu asset on musl hosts like Alpine (#2889)
• 🐛 Fixes config-settings expansion when {project} or {package} contains spaces or backslashes (#2886)
• 🐛 Prevents deadlock when linux32 fails and forwards platform args to the sanity check (#2880, #2888)
• 🐛 Fixes container resource leaks on start failure and during teardown (#2879, #2887)
• 🐛 Removes potential partial cache-population in case of error (#2892)
• 🐛 Raises a clear error when ANDROID_API_LEVEL is not an integer (#2891)
• 🐛 Replaces assert with proper exception in python-build-standalone (#2859)
• 🛠 Updates dependencies and container pins (#2893, #2882, #2874, #2868, #2862, #2884)
• 🛠 Minor fixups across error messages, OCI container, and options (#2860)
• 📚 Updates documentation for delvewheel as the default Windows repair-wheel-command, including the build diagram, schema defaults, and legal note (#2877, #2853, #2891)
• 📚 Adds intersphinx support for external documentation linking (#2871)
• 📚 Removes outdated numpy info (#2855)
• 💼 Improves Azure test reliability with retries and caching (#2890)
• 💼 Fixes Windows GitLab CI test running (#2870)
• 💼 Updates CI action pins (#2867)
• 💼 Adds agent and copilot setup files (#2861)
• 💼 Uses if TYPE_CHECKING: blocks (#2866, #2864)
• 🧪 Adds unit tests for OCIContainer._get_platform_args (#2878)