What's Changed

Enhancements:

• Add support for pip-install input by @gowridurgad in #1201
• Add graalpy early-access and windows builds by @timfel in #880

Dependency and Documentation updates:

• Enhanced wording and updated example usage for allow-prereleases by @yarikoptic in #979
• Upgrade urllib3 from 1.26.19 to 2.5.0 and document breaking changes in v6 by @dependabot in #1139
• Upgrade typescript from 5.4.2 to 5.9.3 and Documentation update by @dependabot in #1094
• Upgrade actions/publish-action from 0.3.0 to 0.4.0 & Documentation update for pip-install input by @dependabot in #1199
• Upgrade requests from 2.32.2 to 2.32.4 by @dependabot in #1130
• Upgrade prettier from 3.5.3 to 3.6.2 by @dependabot in #1234
• Upgrade @types/node from 24.1.0 to 24.9.1 and update macos-13 to macos-15-intel by @dependabot in #1235

New Contributors

• @yarikoptic made their first contribution in #979

Full Changelog: v6...v6.1.0

What's Changed

Breaking Changes

• Upgrade to node 24 by @salmanmkc in #1164

Make sure your runner is on version v2.327.1 or later to ensure compatibility with this release. See Release Notes

Enhancements:

• Add support for pip-version by @priyagupta108 in #1129
• Enhance reading from .python-version by @krystof-k in #787
• Add version parsing from Pipfile by @aradkdj in #1067

Bug fixes:

• Clarify pythonLocation behaviour for PyPy and GraalPy in environment variables by @aparnajyothi-y in #1183
• Change missing cache directory error to warning by @aparnajyothi-y in #1182
• Add Architecture-Specific PATH Management for Python with --user Flag on Windows by @aparnajyothi-y in #1122
• Include python version in PyPy python-version output by @cdce8p in #1110
• Update docs: clarification on pip authentication with setup-python by @priya-kinthali in #1156

Dependency updates:

• Upgrade idna from 2.9 to 3.7 in /tests/data by @dependabot[bot] in #843
• Upgrade form-data to fix critical vulnerabilities #182 & #183 by @aparnajyothi-y in #1163
• Upgrade setuptools to 78.1.1 to fix path traversal vulnerability in PackageIndex.download by @aparnajyothi-y in #1165
• Upgrade actions/checkout from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #1181
• Upgrade @actions/tool-cache from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2 by @dependabot[bot] in #1095

New Contributors

• @krystof-k made their first contribution in #787
• @cdce8p made their first contribution in #1110
• @aradkdj made their first contribution in #1067

Full Changelog: v5...v6.0.0

What's Changed

• Workflow updates related to Ubuntu 20.04 by @aparnajyothi-y in #1065
• Fix for Candidate Not Iterable Error by @aparnajyothi-y in #1082
• Upgrade semver and @types/semver by @dependabot in #1091
• Upgrade prettier from 2.8.8 to 3.5.3 by @dependabot in #1046
• Upgrade ts-jest from 29.1.2 to 29.3.2 by @dependabot in #1081

Full Changelog: v5...v5.6.0

What's Changed

• Add workflow file for publishing releases to immutable action package by @aparnajyothi-y in #1084

Full Changelog: v4...v4.9.1

What's Changed

• Upgrade actions/cache to 4.0.3 by @priya-kinthali in #1073
  In scope of this release we updated actions/cache package to ensure continued support and compatibility, as older versions of the package are now deprecated. For more information please refer to the toolkit/cache.

Full Changelog: v4.8.0...v4.9.0

What's Changed

Enhancements:

• Support free threaded Python versions like '3.13t' by @colesbury in #973
• Enhance Workflows: Include ubuntu-arm runners, Add e2e Testing for free threaded and Upgrade @action/cache from 4.0.0 to 4.0.3 by @priya-kinthali in #1056
• Add support for .tool-versions file in setup-python by @mahabaleshwars in #1043

Bug fixes:

• Fix architecture for pypy on Linux ARM64 by @mayeut in #1011
  This update maps arm64 to aarch64 for Linux ARM64 PyPy installations.

Dependency updates:

• Upgrade @vercel/ncc from 0.38.1 to 0.38.3 by @dependabot in #1016
• Upgrade @actions/glob from 0.4.0 to 0.5.0 by @dependabot in #1015

New Contributors

• @colesbury made their first contribution in #973
• @mahabaleshwars made their first contribution in #1043

Full Changelog: v5...v5.5.0

What's Changed

Enhancements:

• Update cache error message by @aparnajyothi-y in #968
• Enhance Workflows: Add Ubuntu-24, Remove Python 3.8 by @priya-kinthali in #985
• Configure Dependabot settings by @HarithaVattikuti in #1008

Documentation changes:

• Readme update - recommended permissions by @benwells in #1009
• Improve Advanced Usage examples by @lrq3000 in #645

Dependency updates:

• Upgrade undici from 5.28.4 to 5.28.5 by @dependabot in #1012
• Upgrade urllib3 from 1.25.9 to 1.26.19 in /tests/data by @dependabot in #895
• Upgrade actions/publish-immutable-action from 0.0.3 to 0.0.4 by @dependabot in #1014
• Upgrade @actions/http-client from 2.2.1 to 2.2.3 by @dependabot in #1020
• Upgrade requests from 2.24.0 to 2.32.2 in /tests/data by @dependabot in #1019
• Upgrade @actions/cache to ^4.0.0 by @priyagupta108 in #1007

New Contributors

• @benwells made their first contribution in #1009
• @HarithaVattikuti made their first contribution in #1008
• @lrq3000 made their first contribution in #645

Full Changelog: v5...v5.4.0

What's Changed

• Add workflow file for publishing releases to immutable action package by @Jcambass in #941
• Upgrade IA publish by @Jcambass in #943

Bug Fixes:

• Normalise Line Endings to Ensure Cross-Platform Consistency by @priya-kinthali in #938
• Revise isGhes logic by @jww3 in #963
• Bump pillow from 7.2 to 10.2.0 by @aparnajyothi-y in #956

Enhancements:

• Enhance workflows and documentation updates by @priya-kinthali in #965
• Bump default versions to latest by @jeffwidman in #905

New Contributors

• @Jcambass made their first contribution in #941
• @jww3 made their first contribution in #963

Full Changelog: v5...v5.3.0

What's Changed

Bug fixes:

• Add .zip extension to Windows package downloads for Expand-Archive Compatibility by @priyagupta108 in #916
  This addresses compatibility issues on Windows self-hosted runners by ensuring that the filenames for Python and PyPy package downloads explicitly include the .zip extension, allowing the Expand-Archive command to function correctly.
• Add arch to cache key by @Zxilly in #896
  This addresses issues with caching by adding the architecture (arch) to the cache key, ensuring that cache keys are accurate to prevent conflicts.
  Note: This change may break previous cache keys as they will no longer be compatible with the new format.

Documentation changes:

• Fix display of emojis in contributors doc by @sciencewhiz in #899
• Documentation update for caching poetry dependencies by @gowridurgad in #908

Dependency updates:

• Bump @iarna/toml version from 2.2.5 to 3.0.0 by @priya-kinthali in #912
• Bump pyinstaller from 3.6 to 5.13.1 by @aparnajyothi-y in #923

New Contributors

• @sciencewhiz made their first contribution in #899
• @priyagupta108 made their first contribution in #916
• @Zxilly made their first contribution in #896
• @aparnajyothi-y made their first contribution in #923

Full Changelog: v5...v5.2.0

What's Changed

Bug fixes:

• fix(ci): update all failing workflows by @mayeut in #863
  This update ensures compatibility and optimal performance of workflows on the latest macOS version.

Documentation changes:

• Documentation update for cache by @gowridurgad in #873

Dependency updates:

• Bump braces from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3 and undici from 5.28.3 to 5.28.4 by @dependabot in #893

New Contributors

• @gowridurgad made their first contribution in #873

Full Changelog: v5...v5.1.1