uv 0.12.3

on Python PyPI

Release Notes

Released on 2026-08-07.

Python

• Add CPython 3.13.15 (#20997)

Preview features

• Add --output-format to select automatic, human-readable, or raw-byte output for uv cache size (#20992)
• Preserve JSON output from uv workspace metadata --quiet while suppressing diagnostics (#20991)
• Reduce memory usage for large workspaces by streaming uv workspace metadata JSON output (#20990)

Performance

• Reduce Linux startup latency by initializing the workspace cache before spawning another thread (#20989)
• Reuse compiled workspace exclusion patterns during workspace discovery (#20988)
• Speed up conflict-heavy resolutions by avoiding materialized range complements (#20982)
• Avoid slow procfs reads during Python interpreter discovery on Linux (#20987)

Documentation

• Add PEP 740 attestations to the GitHub Actions publishing example (#20986)
• Restrict the GitHub Actions publishing example to Python version tags (#20973)
• Correct --python-pin to --pin-python in the uv init --bare example (#20876)

Install uv 0.12.3

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://releases.astral.sh/github/uv/releases/download/0.12.3/uv-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://releases.astral.sh/github/uv/releases/download/0.12.3/uv-installer.ps1 | iex"

Download uv 0.12.3

Verifying GitHub Artifact Attestations

The artifacts in this release have attestations generated with GitHub Artifact Attestations. These can be verified by using the GitHub CLI:

gh attestation verify <file-path of downloaded artifact> --repo astral-sh/uv

You can also download the attestation from GitHub and verify against that directly:

gh attestation verify <file-path of downloaded artifact> --bundle <file-path of downloaded attestation>