• ✨ Extends option inheritance to every configuration layer, so global and platform-specific settings can append or prepend to existing values, including cibuildwheel's defaults. Environment variables can also extend earlier settings using CIBW_INHERIT. (#2928)
• ✨ Adds PyPy 3.12 support and updates PyPy 3.11 to v8.0.0, available with the pypy enable flag (#2998)
• ✨ Adds GraalPy 3.13 (v25.3) support on Linux, Windows, and macOS arm64, available with the graalpy enable flag (#2982)
• ✨ Adds log-fold-mode to override CI log folding, including CIBW_LOG_FOLD_MODE=disabled to keep build steps expanded (#2972)
• ✨ Adds a python-path input to the GitHub Action to choose the Python interpreter used to run cibuildwheel, and falls back to system python3 on runner architectures unsupported by setup-python, such as native riscv64 (#2990)
• 🐛 Fixes Windows command execution when paths or arguments contain shell metacharacters, including dependency specifiers containing < or > (#2978)
• 🛠 Improves readability of logged commands whose arguments contain quotes (#2993)
• 🛠 Updates Pyodide to 0.27.8, 0.29.5, and 314.0.7, and updates its build tooling, including auditwheel-emscripten 0.3.0 (#2996)
• 🛠 Updates dependencies and container pins, including CPython 3.15.0rc3 (#2986, #3003)
• 📚 Corrects references to --archs in CLI help, error messages, and documentation (#2992)