0.4.12

Release Notes

Released on 2026-08-03.

Enhancements

• Add --require-group for hook group intersections (#2472)
• Align fast-path and builtin pre-commit hooks (#2433)
• Do not shuffle file list for verbose output (#2431)
• Improve top-level command descriptions (#2429)
• Install uv from Astral CDN and drop source racing (#2455)
• Make prek install --force bypass external hooks paths (#2437)
• Show builtin hook flags in verbose list output (#2427)
• Verify uv release archive checksums (#2456)

Performance

• Precompute file tags in parallel (#2440)
• Skip diffs after known hook modifications (#2447)
• Skip worktree diffs for read-only languages (#2432)
• Track builtin hook file changes directly (#2404)

Bug fixes

• Use full object IDs in diff snapshots (#2448)

Documentation

• Add a multi-repository configuration example (#2434)
• Rewrite benchmark documentation (#2469)

Contributors

• @j178
• @BitWeaverDev
• @allanlewis

Install prek 0.4.12

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/j178/prek/releases/download/v0.4.12/prek-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/j178/prek/releases/download/v0.4.12/prek-installer.ps1 | iex"

Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew

brew install prek

Download prek 0.4.12

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>