v2026.5.12: : minimum-release-age, global edit, and install_env fixes

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A focused release that renames the release-age cutoff flag to something more discoverable, deprecates the legacy default_packages_file mechanism, and fixes several install_env propagation gaps across backends.

Added

• (cli) mise edit --global / -g opens the global config file (~/.config/mise/config.toml, or $MISE_GLOBAL_CONFIG_FILE if set), bringing mise edit in line with mise use --global, mise settings set --global, and other commands. A positional path still wins over the flag (#​9953 by @​fru1tworld).

• (cli) The release-age cutoff flag on mise install, use, upgrade, and latest has been renamed from --before to --minimum-release-age, matching the per-tool option and global setting of the same name. The old --before spelling is kept as a hidden alias so existing scripts keep working (#​9768 by @​risu729):

  mise latest node --minimum-release-age 2024-01-01
  mise install --minimum-release-age 90d

Fixed

• (aqua) Verify cosign bundles that ship a long-lived public key via cosign.opts --key locally, instead of routing them through sigstore-verify's unsupported public-key bundle path. This fixes installs like aqua:stackrox/kube-linter@0.8.3, which previously failed with public key verification not yet supported (#​9972 by @​jdx).
• (backend) Per-tool install_env is now passed into tool-level postinstall hook commands (#​9930 by @​risu729) and applied to command-backed install paths across package-manager backends, vfox cmd.exec hooks, SPM build/probe commands, and core language install-time commands (#​9929 by @​risu729).
• (cargo) Fall back to cargo install (instead of cargo-binstall) when tool options require source-build feature selection. cargo-binstall is still used for compatible options such as bin, crate, and locked (#​9928 by @​risu729).
• (config) Restore the env_file setting and the MISE_ENV_FILE env var, which had been incorrectly marked deprecated. env._.file in mise.toml is the right replacement for legacy top-level env_file entries, but it's not behaviorally equivalent to MISE_ENV_FILE=.env, which uses FindUp from the current directory (#​9903 by @​risu729).

Changed

• (core) Default package files are now on a deprecation timeline (#​9970 by @​jdx). The settings go.default_packages_file, node.default_packages_file, python.default_packages_file, and ruby.default_packages_file (i.e. ~/.default-go-packages, ~/.default-npm-packages, ~/.default-python-packages, ~/.default-gems) will start emitting a warning in 2026.11.0 and be removed in 2027.11.0. The recommended replacements are package-manager backends for CLIs:

  [tools]
  "npm:typescript" = "latest"
  "pipx:black"     = "latest"
  "gem:rubocop"    = "latest"
  "go:github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit" = "latest"

  or a tool-level postinstall hook for packages that really should be installed into every runtime version:

  [tools]
  node = { version = "22", postinstall = "npm install -g typescript" }

• (cli) User-facing help, docs, and the man page now use tool/backend wording instead of plugin/runtime where tools are not necessarily plugins, including renaming MISE_${PLUGIN}_VERSION references to MISE_${TOOL}_VERSION. mise tool-alias now prefers --tool as the primary long flag, with --plugin retained as an alias (#​9906 by @​risu729).

• (registry) The qsv shorthand now resolves to aqua:dathere/qsv first, falling back to the existing github:dathere/qsv and asdf:vjda/asdf-qsv entries (#​9910 by @​risu729).

• (snap) The snap package is now built and published for arm64 in addition to amd64, so snap install mise works on arm64 desktops (#​9948 by @​jnsgruk).

New Contributors

• @​jnsgruk made their first contribution in #​9948
• @​fru1tworld made their first contribution in #​9953

Full Changelog: jdx/mise@v2026.5.11...v2026.5.12

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