Release 26.2 (July 2026)

[ichard26]

I'll be the RM unless any @pypa/pip-committers objects since I have (paid!) time to put aside for this.

[ichard26]

I'm planning to cut release 26.2 on Wednesday, July 29 in the afternoon/evening (NYC time). Only two PRs remain in the milestone:

• Refactor -r pylock.toml, support release control and dependency cooldown #14165
• Fix invalid config values soft-locking pip #14011

I will not be accepting any other feature or bugfix PRs until the 26.2 release cycle is finished.

[notatallshaw]

@ichard26 I have one for one PR for your consideration, official Python 3.15 support, given pip 26.2 is likely the version that will be bundled with the release of Python 3.15: #14208

[ichard26]

Included 👍