Releases · actions/setup-python

v6.2.0

v6.1.0

What's Changed

Enhancements:

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

Full Changelog: v6...v6.1.0

v6.0.0

v5.6.0

v4.9.1

v4.9.0

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

v5.5.0

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:

New Contributors

Full Changelog: v5...v5.5.0

v5.4.0

v5.3.0

v5.2.0

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:

Dependency updates:

New Contributors

Full Changelog: v5...v5.2.0