Pip 26.1 Ships Dependency Cooldowns and Experimental Lockfile Support to Combat Supply Chain Attacks (opens in new tab)

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