0.4.11

Release Notes

Released on 2026-07-25.

Highlights

• This release adds two new builtin hooks, deny-pattern and require-pattern,
  as native alternatives for pygrep use cases. deny-pattern fails when a
  configured pattern is found, while require-pattern ensures every selected
  file contains a match. By matching natively without spawning a Python
  subprocess, they run over 4x faster than pygrep in benchmarks. Note that
  they use Rust regex syntax, which does
  not support look-around features such as negative lookbehind.

• prek run now supports --glob <PATTERN> to run hooks on tracked files
  matching a glob. It can be repeated or combined with --files and
  --directory.

• Hook priorities now support reusable aliases:

  [priorities]
  checks = 10
  
  [[repos]]
  repo = "builtin"
  hooks = [
    { id = "check-json", priority = "checks" },
    { id = "check-yaml", priority = "checks" },
  ]

  This makes parallel scheduling easier to read and maintain.

Enhancements

• Add deny-pattern and require-pattern builtin hooks (#2359)
• Support --glob patterns in prek run (#2381)
• Support reusable aliases for hook priorities (#2331)
• Implement requirements-txt-fixer as a builtin hook (#2390)
• Improve user-facing warnings and errors (#2380)
• Install Node hooks through git url (#2394)

Performance

• Reduce blocking-pool overhead in file hooks (#2384)
• Speed up mixed-line-ending scans with memchr2 (#2391)

Bug fixes

• Honor filenames in builtin hook entry and args (#2389)
• Match identify tags across filename parts (#2399)
• Preserve hook output order with a shared pipe (#2385)
• Preserve system download policy when applying metadata (#2395)

Contributors

• @j178
• @chrisoro

Install prek 0.4.11

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/j178/prek/releases/download/v0.4.11/prek-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/j178/prek/releases/download/v0.4.11/prek-installer.ps1 | iex"

Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew

brew install prek

Download prek 0.4.11

File	Platform	Checksum
prek-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
prek-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Intel macOS	checksum
prek-aarch64-pc-windows-msvc.zip	ARM64 Windows	checksum
prek-i686-pc-windows-msvc.zip	x86 Windows	checksum
prek-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip	x64 Windows	checksum
prek-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
prek-i686-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	x86 Linux	checksum
prek-riscv64gc-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	RISCV Linux	checksum
prek-s390x-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	S390x Linux	checksum
prek-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	x64 Linux	checksum
prek-armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf.tar.gz	ARMv7 Linux	checksum
prek-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz	ARM64 MUSL Linux	checksum
prek-i686-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz	x86 MUSL Linux	checksum
prek-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum
prek-arm-unknown-linux-musleabihf.tar.gz	ARMv6 MUSL Linux (Hardfloat)	checksum
prek-armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf.tar.gz	ARMv7 MUSL Linux	checksum

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 j178/prek

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>