mise-en-place Welcomes 2026

[jdx]

Another year has passed, and mise continues to evolve! This post summarizes what's been accomplished since the 2025 announcement in January 2025.

2025 By The Numbers

• 2,008 commits merged
• 211 releases shipped (approximately one every 1.7 days)
• ~947 tools now in the registry
• 150+ contributors throughout the year
• 23k+ GitHub stars

Top contributors: @jdx (844), @risu729 (244), @roele (83), @scop (41), @TyceHerrman (23), @pierremercier (16), @tony-sol (14), @hverlin (14), and many more!

Major Features

Monorepo Task Support

One of the most requested features landed in October 2025—comprehensive monorepo support for tasks. You can now:

• Reference tasks across packages using the :task syntax (e.g., mise run :packages/api:build)
• Use pattern matching with ... for running tasks across multiple packages
• Configure [monorepo].config_roots for explicit workspace discovery
• Inherit tasks and tools from parent configs

This brings mise's task runner closer to feature parity with tools like Turborepo and Nx while maintaining mise's simplicity.

New Backends

Several new backends expanded mise's reach:

• S3 Backend: Install tools from private S3 buckets for enterprise/internal tools
• Forgejo Backend: Support for the open-source Git forge (Gitea fork)
• Conda Backend: Install packages directly from conda-forge, with dependency resolution and locking
• HTTP Backend Improvements: Full Tera templating support, JSON filter syntax for version extraction, and version_expr for complex version parsing

Security Enhancements

Supply chain security received significant attention:

• GitHub Attestation Verification: Ruby precompiled binaries now verify GitHub attestations
• SLSA Verification: Improved support for SLSA provenance in aqua packages
• Cosign Support: Asset template support for cosign verification
• API Digest Checksums: GitHub and aqua backends now use API digests for release asset checksums
• macOS Binary Signing: Self-update now verifies macOS binary signatures

Ruby Precompiled Binaries

Ruby installations got dramatically faster with precompiled binary support. Instead of compiling from source (which can take 10+ minutes), mise now downloads precompiled binaries for supported platforms, completing in seconds. Binaries include GitHub attestation verification for supply chain security.

Enhanced Lockfiles

The lockfile system received major improvements:

• Cross-platform support: Generate checksums for all platforms without downloading tarballs
• --locked flag: Strict mode that fails if lockfile is missing or outdated
• URL tracking: Lockfiles now include download URLs for deno, go, zig, and vfox backends
• Environment-specific lockfiles: Support for per-environment lockfiles

Shell Aliases

The new [shell_alias] configuration allows defining cross-shell aliases that work in bash, zsh, and fish:

[shell_alias]
ll = "ls -la"
gst = "git status"

Task System Improvements

Tasks received numerous enhancements:

• mise prepare: New command to prepare/download dependencies without installing
• mise task validate: Validate task configurations
• Remote git tasks: Include tasks from git repositories
• Task confirmation: Require user confirmation before running tasks
• --skip-deps flag: Run tasks without their dependencies
• Naked task completions: Tab-complete task names directly with mise <task>

Configuration Improvements

• .miserc.toml: New file for early initialization settings (loaded before other configs)
• Age encryption: Encrypt sensitive environment variables directly in mise.toml
• Required env vars: Define required environment variables with [env._.required]
• netrc support: Authenticate HTTP requests using ~/.netrc

UI/UX Improvements

• OSC 9;4 Progress Indicators: Terminal progress bars in supported terminals (iTerm2, Windows Terminal, etc.)
• Light Theme Support: color_theme = "base16" setting for light terminal backgrounds
• Upgrade Summary: mise upgrade now displays a summary of upgraded tools
• mise search: New command to search for tools in the registry
• mise-versions overhaul: what was a simple api for fetching versions is now a full-fledged webapp: https://mise-versions.jdx.dev

Platform Support

• Snap Package: mise is now available via snap install mise
• Windows Improvements: Better exit code handling, Pester-based tests
• Android/Termux: Automatic musl detection for Termux environments
• Fedora 43: COPR packages for Fedora 43

Registry Growth

The registry grew to nearly 950 tools, with over 120 new tools added throughout the year. Notable changes:

• UBI deprecation: The ubi: backend is deprecated in favor of the more capable github: backend
• Embedded vfox plugins: vfox plugin Lua code is now embedded in the binary for faster execution
• Backend migrations: Many tools migrated from asdf plugins to native backends (aqua, github, vfox, pipx)
• Better defaults: Tools like poetry, pipenv, postgres, lua, and dotnet now use vfox backends by default

Sister Projects

Two new projects launched in 2025 that complement mise:

fnox

A unified secret management tool that lets developers store and manage sensitive data either encrypted in git repositories or remotely in cloud providers. It supports multiple encryption methods (age, AWS KMS, Azure KMS, GCP KMS) and cloud services (AWS Secrets Manager, 1Password, Bitwarden, HashiCorp Vault, and others). fnox integrates seamlessly with mise's environment variable system—use mise set with fnox to manage secrets across development, staging, and production environments.

hk

A high-performance git hook manager and project linting tool. hk features tighter linter integration and uses read/write file locks to maximize concurrent operations while preventing race conditions. It's designed as a faster, more integrated alternative to tools like pre-commit and lefthook. mise can generate hk configurations with mise generate git-pre-commit.

Thank You

Thank you to everyone who contributed code, documentation, bug reports, and feedback throughout 2025. The mise community continues to grow and improve the tool for developers everywhere.

[dive]

Thank you for such an amazing tool!
I am usually a snob when it comes to anything new, especially something as important as environment management. Have been stuck with MacPorts for many years (and I still think it is much better than Homebrew), but mise is just perfect – it has become my go-to tool for tons of things. You are doing a great job. Best of luck in 2026!

[mustafa0x]

• Light Theme Support: color_theme = "light" setting for light terminal backgrounds

mise WARN Unknown color theme 'light', using default

I think it should be: color_theme = "base16"