uv 0.9.6

on Python PyPI

Release Notes

Released on 2025-10-29.

This release contains an upgrade to Astral's fork of async_zip, which addresses potential sources of ZIP parsing differentials between uv and other Python packaging tooling. See GHSA-pqhf-p39g-3x64 for additional details.

Security

• Address ZIP parsing differentials (GHSA-pqhf-p39g-3x64)

Python

• Upgrade GraalPy to 25.0.1 (#16401)

Enhancements

• Add --clear to uv build to remove old build artifacts (#16371)
• Add --no-create-gitignore to uv build (#16369)
• Do not error when a virtual environment directory cannot be removed due to a busy error (#16394)
• Improve hint on pip install --system when externally managed (#16392)
• Running uv lock --check with outdated lockfile will print that --check was passed, instead of --locked (#16322)
• Update uv init template for Maturin (#16449)
• Improve ordering of Python sources in logs (#16463)
• Restore DockerHub release images and annotations (#16441)

Bug fixes

• Check for matching Python implementation during uv python upgrade (#16420)
• Deterministically order --find-links distributions (#16446)
• Don't panic in uv export --frozen when the lockfile is outdated (#16407)
• Fix root of uv tree when --package is used with circular dependencies (#15908)
• Show package list with pip freeze --quiet (#16491)
• Limit uv auth login pyx.dev retries to 60s (#16498)
• Add an empty group with uv add --group ... -r ... (#16490)

Documentation

• Update docs for maturin build backend init template (#16469)
• Update docs to reflect previous changes to signal forwarding semantics (#16430)
• Add instructions for installing via MacPorts (#16039)

Install uv 0.9.6

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/0.9.6/uv-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/0.9.6/uv-installer.ps1 | iex"

Download uv 0.9.6