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Bumps the python-minor-and-patch group with 2 updates: python-discovery and virtualenv.

Updates python-discovery from 1.6.4 to 1.6.6

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v1.6.6

Bug fixes

• Treat version specifiers with an item that cannot be parsed, such as >=3.x, >=3.12 <4 or >=3.12,foo, as literal executable paths instead of raising a bare AssertionError or ignoring the item during discovery (#157) by @​darrenhuai and @​gaborbernat.
• Accept relative interpreter paths that step up a directory, such as ../venv/bin/python, which were found and queried but never matched the spec (#158) by @​darrenhuai and @​gaborbernat.
• Match ~=X.Y compatible-release specifiers against later minor versions, as PEP 440 defines, instead of only the same minor; ~=3.10 now accepts 3.11 and newer 3.x (#159) by @​darrenhuai and @​gaborbernat.

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v1.6.5

Packaging

• Releases now run on the shared tox-dev/github-workflows pipeline, with a locked release toolchain and generated GitHub Release notes (#164) by @​gaborbernat.

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v1.7.0 (2026-10-30)

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Added

• Accept the free-threaded, debug, architecture and machine suffixes after a version specifier, as in >=3.13t or cpython>=3.11,<3.14-64, and raise ValueError for a spec that starts with a comparison operator but does not parse, such as >=3.13., instead of looking it up as an executable name (:pr:176) by :user:gaborbernat. (:issue:175)

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Fixed

• Stop a .python-version file that is not valid UTF-8, or that cannot be read, from aborting discovery through a pyenv, mise or asdf shim; a stray byte no longer hides the versions it names, and an unreadable file is skipped like a missing one (:pr:173) by :user:darrenhuai and :user:gaborbernat.

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Documentation

• Link every documentation page to its source and edit view on GitHub, and add a GitHub icon to the footer (:pr:177) by :user:gaborbernat. (:issue:174)

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v1.6.7 (2026-10-28)

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Fixed

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Commits

• 7cc1c22 release 1.6.6
• 27f51c2 🐛 fix(spec): let ~=X.Y match later minor versions (#159)
• 38a7454 🐛 fix(discovery): match relative interpreter paths with ".." (#158)
• d323a51 🐛 fix(spec): treat unparsable version specifiers as literal paths (#157)
• 8050a82 release 1.6.5
• bb5d08f 📦 build(release): note the shared release pipeline (#164)
• 8a6eff7 👷 ci(release): move releases to shared github-workflows (#156)
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Updates virtualenv from 21.14.13 to 21.15.0

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21.15.0

Features

• Bundle dependencies for Python 3.15 in the standalone zipapp and stop bundling Python 3.8, which is outside the package's supported range (#3458) by @​gaborbernat.

Packaging

• Publish GitHub Releases with categorized notes from the tagged changelog, retaining the zipapp, SBOM, and PyPI links (#3458) by @​gaborbernat.

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.. _release-21-15-2:

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21.15.2 (2026-10-30)

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Fixed

• Build the default application data folder only when no folder was given through --app-data, VIRTUALENV_APP_DATA or the configuration file, so --read-only-app-data with an explicit folder works when the default folder is missing, and writable runs stop creating an unused one. Folders from VIRTUALENV_APP_DATA and the configuration file now get the same checks as --app-data (:pr:3488) by :user:darrenhuai and :user:gaborbernat.
• Build the seed wheel image in a staging folder and move it into place only once it is complete, so an extraction that fails part way, for example on a full disk, after a killed process or on a path over the Windows length limit, no longer leaves a partial image that later runs seed as a pip without METADATA, RECORD or INSTALLER (:pr:3487) by :user:darrenhuai and :user:gaborbernat.
• Make -p/--python and --try-first-with replace the interpreters set by VIRTUALENV_PYTHON, VIRTUALENV_TRY_FIRST_WITH or the configuration file instead of being merged with them, so the configured interpreter no longer wins over the one asked for and a -p that finds nothing fails instead of falling back to it. Try several VIRTUALENV_PYTHON values in the order given rather than starting with the second (:pr:3494) by :user:darrenhuai and :user:gaborbernat.
• On Windows, re-create an environment in place when its copied interpreter files, such as python.exe, or its seeded packages are read-only, instead of failing with PermissionError (:pr:3492) by :user:darrenhuai and :user:gaborbernat.
• Reject an empty or whitespace-only destination. An empty one, and on Windows one made only of spaces, resolved to the current directory, so an unset VENV in virtualenv --clear "$VENV" deleted the working directory. Pass . to create the environment in the current directory (:pr:3491) by :user:darrenhuai and :user:gaborbernat.
• Restore the default prompt in deactivate.bat when PROMPT was undefined at activation, instead of leaving the environment name in front of it (:pr:3489) by :user:darrenhuai.
• Undefine PATH again in deactivate.bat when it was undefined at activation, instead of leaving the environment's Scripts folder on it, and stop a second activate.bat from adding that folder twice (:pr:3493) by :user:darrenhuai and :user:gaborbernat.

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21.15.1 (2026-10-28)

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Commits

• 18d26f8 release 21.15.0
• dd4ce2c 👷 ci(release): move release tooling to github-workflows 6.0.1 (#3458)
• 92e9e34 chore(deps): bump gitpython, virtualenv in /tasks (#3467)
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