0.56.0 - 2025-10-06

Release Notes

✨ Highlights

Install a .conda package directly using pixi global install:

pixi global install --path /path/to/package-name.conda

Added

• Add paxton-as-pixi SVG by @VeckoTheGecko in #4592
• Add a hyperlink to lock file docs by @lucascolley in #4600
• Add description of a workspace to first workspace docs by @lucascolley in #4602
• Add a tutorial on pixi import and pixi init --import by @lucascolley in #4631
• Resolve optional pypi-dependencies recursively by @olivier-lacroix in #3646

Changed

• Option to ignore env var during activation by @Hofer-Julian in #4619
• Add new (minimal) pixi_api abstraction crate by @haecker-felix in #4546
• Drop StyledText abstraction, rename config to workspace by @haecker-felix in #4647
• More simple introduction to manifest reference by @lucascolley in #4601
• Direct .conda global installation by @lucascolley in #4502
• Implement task support for WorkspaceContext by @haecker-felix in #4667
• Unsafe-best-match for build as well by @tdejager in #4649

Documentation

• project -> workspace, improve first_workspace page by @lucascolley in #4586
• Fix bash completion sourcing example by @Hofer-Julian in #4590
• project -> workspace in README also by @lucascolley in #4589
• Fix typo by @Hofer-Julian in #4596
• Fix broken hyperlink by @magsol in #4605
• Add global environments in setup-pixi by @pavelzw in #4627
• Add warning when viewing old docs version by @lucascolley in #4628
• Fix list in pixi extensions page by @pavelzw in #4630
• Update doc to include global environment caching information by @olivier-lacroix in #4672

Fixed

• Correct SIGINT forwarding by @remimimimimi in #4552
• Inconsistent caching when input or output globs unmatched by @tdejager in #4547
• Obscure error when importing environment.yml with empty pip: by @Hofer-Julian in #4609
• Use source name for a package by @nichmor in #4597
• Pixi init config loading by @Hofer-Julian in #4610
• add_tests::add_with_channel by @Hofer-Julian in #4618
• Optional dependencies break requirement conversion code by @Hofer-Julian in #4603
• Handle url::pkg dependencies from conda env file by @lucascolley in #4621
• Panic when trying to resolve cross-platform deps by @nichmor in #4612
• Adapt testsuite CI by @Hofer-Julian in #4632
• Skip multi-output test by @Hofer-Julian in #4653
• Upgrade all features by default by @lucascolley in #4646
• Available tasks output by @remimimimimi in #4655
• Restore $status before calling __fish_prompt_orig by @fstanis in #4651
• Use correct equality specifier for conda-environment export with git subdir pypi dep by @ihnorton in #4658
• Fix test-exports integration test after PR4658 by @ihnorton in #4695
• pixi list shouldn't panic in case of BrokenPipe error by @mrswastik-robot in #4673
• Double relative manifest path by @remimimimimi in #4699

Performance

• Use ignore crate instead of wax crate for globbing by @tdejager in #4578
• Initialize the reqwest client lazily by @baszalmstra in #4666
• Initialize the environment variables lazily for sdist environments by @baszalmstra in #4685

Refactor

• Extracted pixi_install_pypi from core by @tdejager in #4643

New Contributors

• @ihnorton made their first contribution in #4695
• @fstanis made their first contribution in #4651
• @magsol made their first contribution in #4605
• @VeckoTheGecko made their first contribution in #4592

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