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Pip 26.1 Ships Dependency Cooldowns and Experimental Lockfile Support to Combat Supply Chain Attacks

Pip 26.1 Ships Dependency Cooldowns and Experimental Lockfile Support to Combat Supply Chain Attacks

Pip 26.1 ships dependency cooldowns that enforce a waiting period before newly published packages can be installed, and experimental pylock.toml lockfile support from PEP 751. Research shows a 7-day cooldown would have prevented 8 out of 10 analyzed supply chain attacks from reaching end users.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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