v2026.8.0: 15% faster shims, multi-language workspaces, and precompiled Ruby

This release makes mise noticeably faster on Linux x64: shims have 15% lower latency, while config-aware commands are 8–11% faster in local release-to-release benchmarks. It also significantly expands the experimental monorepo task workflow with dependency inference across Cargo, uv (Python), Go, and Node workspaces, and makes precompiled Ruby binaries the default.

⚡ Performance: up to 15% lower latency

Official checksum-verified Linux x64 GNU binaries were compared on an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D using an isolated offline fixture with warm filesystem caches (20 warmups and 200 measured runs per command):

Workload	v2026.7.18	v2026.8.0	Lower latency
Node shim dispatch	6.990 ms	5.929 ms	15.2%
tasks ls	7.353 ms	6.574 ms	10.6%
env -s bash	7.942 ms	7.187 ms	9.5%
current	7.667 ms	6.961 ms	9.2%
settings	5.823 ms	5.331 ms	8.5%
--help	5.036 ms	4.731 ms	6.1%
version	5.108 ms	4.884 ms	4.4%
registry	7.457 ms	7.181 ms	3.7%

Release downloads are smaller as well:

Linux x64 artifact	Size change
.tar.xz	11.1% smaller
.tar.gz	5.9% smaller
.tar.zst	5.0% smaller
Allocated ELF sections	0.6% smaller

The raw executable file is 2.5% larger because of the BOLT file layout, despite its smaller allocated sections and compressed artifacts. Shim dispatch was measured in two reversed-order 300-run rounds. These are whole-release results against v2026.7.18, so they include all changes between the releases rather than isolating BOLT alone.

Highlights

• Workspace inference now spans four ecosystems. mise tasks graph discovers projects and internal dependency edges from Cargo, uv, Go, and Node workspace metadata without needing the underlying toolchain installed, and --explain attributes every project, edge, and task field to its source.
• Precompiled Ruby binaries are now the default, cutting install times for most users while keeping source builds available on demand.

Added

• task: Cargo workspaces are now inferred for the task graph. mise parses root and member Cargo.toml files (no cargo binary required) to build cargo:<package> projects and internal edges from normal, dev, build, target-specific, renamed, and inherited workspace = true path dependencies, with provenance surfaced in graph output. (#11554 by @jdx)

• task: uv (Python) workspaces are inferred from pyproject.toml. When [tool.uv.workspace] is present, member globs and exclusions define uv:<package> projects and edges come from [tool.uv.sources] workspace = true / local path entries across main, optional, dependency-group, and legacy dev dependencies — again without invoking uv or Python. (#11556 by @jdx)

• task: Go workspaces are discovered from go.work use directives and each module's go.mod, registering stable go:<module-path> projects without running the go binary. Dependency ordering is supplied explicitly via [monorepo.projects] overrides. (#11559 by @jdx)

• task: workspace providers can now contribute task suggestions. The Node provider imports supported inputs, outputs, cache, and dependsOn metadata from matching turbo.json entries for inferred package scripts, tracking turbo.json as a task definition source. Unsupported Turbo expressions are left unset. (#11543 by @jdx)

• task: mise tasks graph --explain shows provider and metadata-source provenance for every inferred project, dependency edge, task, and provider-suggested field, and --json now serializes the same attribution. Config overrides are labeled as configuration rather than misattributed to inference. (#11547 by @jdx)

  mise tasks graph --explain

• task: mise watch gains a per-task watch.no_vcs_ignore option so tasks can watch sources that are excluded by .gitignore (such as generated files). VCS ignores stay enabled by default to avoid scanning broad build directories; one opted-in task enables it for the combined watch process. (#11535 by @Marukome0743)

  [tasks.generate]
  run = "process generated/output.json"
  sources = ["generated/output.json"]
  watch = { no_vcs_ignore = true }

• task: groundwork for affected-project task selection: mise can now resolve affected Git base/head revisions (with MISE_AFFECTED_BASE/MISE_AFFECTED_HEAD overrides and CI auto-detection for GitHub Actions and GitLab), map changed files to the workspace projects that own them, and expand that set through transitive reverse-dependency edges across providers. (#11585, #11569, #11583 by @jdx)

Changed

• ruby: precompiled Ruby binaries are now the default when ruby.compile is unset — installs try jdx/ruby binaries first and fall back to a source build when none are available. Set ruby.compile = true to force a source build as before. (#11584 by @jdx)

Fixed

• config: --path <dir> now targets a config file inside that directory for use, unuse, set, unset, dotfiles add, and the system subcommands. Previously --path was silently discarded when the current directory already had a config in scope, so mise unuse --path ../other could remove a tool from the wrong file. (#11575 by @JamBalaya56562)
• task: Ctrl-C is now treated as an interruption rather than a task failure. mise run stops starting new work, exits with status 130, and no longer prints no exit status or task failed, while still allowing post-dependency cleanup to run. (#11511 by @Marukome0743)
• task: sources and outputs now support brace globs (e.g. {a,b}/**), and literal single-element braces are preserved rather than being mangled. (#11555, #11565 by @Marukome0743)
• python: mise run --tool python@3.12 now honors the selected interpreter when creating a _.python.venv, instead of building the venv from the first [tools] python entry. (#11567 by @JamBalaya56562)
• unuse: mise unuse node@20 on node = ["20", "22"] now removes only the matching version and preserves the rest, including structured options and .tool-versions entries. The whole tool key is removed only for an unversioned request or after the last version is unused. (#11563 by @Marukome0743)
• env: an explicit redact = false on a variable now excludes it from matching redactions patterns, so a short opted-out value no longer leaks into the global scrubber and partially redacts unrelated secrets. (#11564 by @jdx)
• hook-env: if a shell command overwrites a mise-managed variable or removes a PATH entry added by mise, hook-env now detects the drift and restores it, while leaving user-owned variables, added PATH entries, and PATH reordering untouched. (#11568 by @Marukome0743)
• dotfiles: symlink-each no longer recursively walks shared targets like ~ for status, apply, and unapply. mise now records exact source-to-target pairs in a manifest under $MISE_STATE_DIR/dotfiles, avoiding traversal of unrelated and unreadable home-directory trees. Existing installs are backfilled on their next apply. (#11549 by @jdx)
• asdf: dependencies declared via [tools].depends are now on the PATH given to bin/download and bin/install scripts during the same mise install, fixing first-install failures where a dependency's executable was still missing. bin/install now also fails when it installs nothing. (#11531 by @Marukome0743, #11553 by @JamBalaya56562)
• vfox: plugins whose pre_install hook returns a sha1 or md5 checksum are now verified instead of panicking with not implemented: sha1. (#11536 by @JamBalaya56562)
• aqua: checksum files that carry a byte-order mark are now read correctly, and the checksum manifest is fetched with the text-fetching path again. (#11552, #11558 by @JamBalaya56562)
• brew-cask: direct cask pours are hardened with transactional activation, content-fingerprinted receipts, validated paths, and structured terminate_process/postflight handling, covering current cask shapes such as Cloudflare WARP, TablePlus, Zoom, OrbStack, Surge, Plex Media Server, and Zed Preview. Homebrew-owned casks are left byte-for-byte untouched. (#11215 by @donbeave)
• forgejo: the new fj macOS key path is now supported. (#11545 by @jdx)
• github, gitlab: gh/glab config is now found on Windows. (#11508 by @JamBalaya56562)
• http: HTTP client initialization failures are now handled gracefully instead of aborting. (#11561 by @Marukome0743)

Performance

• shim: shims reuse the resolved toolset and config roots, reducing per-invocation overhead. (#11534 by @jdx)
• task: workspace discovery caches its filesystem access. (#11562 by @jdx)
• release: the Linux x64 binary is optimized with BOLT and overall release binary size is reduced. (#11533, #11520 by @jdx)

Documentation

• task: workspace task precedence is now documented. (#11542 by @jdx)

Registry

• Updated the herdr repository. (#11518 by @ogulcancelik)

Full Changelog: v2026.7.18...v2026.8.0

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