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