Release Watcher - mise-en-place v2026.4.24: Resilient downloads and global pre-release opt-in

Release list
2026.5.1: Aqua cosign and a reshim rescue	2026-05-05 RECENT
2026.5.0: Conda graduates, smarter pres, and Windows POSIX tasks	2026-05-03 RECENT
2026.4.28: Remote tasks pinned by commit SHA	2026-04-30 RECENT
2026.4.27: npm install args, smarter watch, and a macOS shim recursion fix	2026-04-29 RECENT
2026.4.25: Sharper task tooling and lockfile fixes	2026-04-28
2026.4.24: Resilient downloads and global pre- opt-in	2026-04-27
2026.4.23: Pre-s, libc preference, and a Node musl fix	2026-04-26
2026.4.21: untrust command and prune lockfile fixes	2026-04-25
2026.4.22: Repaired latest resolution and clearer deps output	2026-04-25
2026.4.20: Lockfile cleanup and path: fixes	2026-04-24
2026.4.19: OCI images, aqua templates, and more resilient installs	2026-04-23
2026.4.18: Deps management, aube support, and vfox plugin dependencies	2026-04-19
2026.4.17: install_before fixes, lockfile repair, and new registry tools	2026-04-18
2026.4.16: Tera templates in inline tasks, raw_args passthrough, and runtime symlink paths	2026-04-17
2026.4.15: Windows path separator fix and improved GitHub token detection	2026-04-16
2026.4.13: Remote cache, Go install_before, and task tool objects	2026-04-16
2026.4.14: Fix GitHub attestation verification for some tools	2026-04-15
2026.4.12: OS/arch filtering, task confirmation defaults, and npm supply chain improvements	2026-04-15
2026.4.11: Task dependency templates and npm semver range support	2026-04-13
2026.4.10: Fix spurious warnings from postinstall hooks running tasks	2026-04-12

A small release that hardens HTTP downloads against flaky networks and adds a global way to surface pre-release versions, plus refreshed intro messaging.

Added

(ls-remote) New global prereleases setting (MISE_PRERELEASES=1) and a --prerelease flag for mise ls-remote (#9415) by @jdx. Acts as prerelease = true applied to every tool, so GitHub releases flagged prerelease: true show up in ls-remote, latest resolves against the full list, and fuzzy queries like 1.2 can match pre-release tags. Currently honored by the github: and aqua: backends; draft releases are still excluded.
```
mise ls-remote github:cli/cli --prerelease
# or, persistently:
export MISE_PRERELEASES=1
```

Fixed

(http) HTTP requests now retry transient failures with a jittered backoff schedule (~200ms / 1s / 4s / 15s, then capped at 15s) and the default http_retries is bumped from 0 to 3 (#9414) by @jdx. Retries fire on 5xx, 408, 429, and network-layer errors (connect refused, timeout, mid-stream body drops); deterministic 4xx responses like 404 fail fast without retry. Downloads wrap the full request + body so a chunk failure mid-stream restarts from byte 0 instead of failing the install. Each retry logs a warn! immediately so flaky infrastructure surfaces in real time, and the same logic now powers vfox plugin downloads (which honor MISE_HTTP_RETRIES too). Set MISE_HTTP_RETRIES=0 to opt out. The http→https fallback now only triggers on connection-level errors, not on HTTP status errors.
(release) scripts/publish-s3.sh now purges the mise.en.dev Cloudflare zone (alongside jdx.dev and mise.run) after each S3 publish (#9416) by @jdx. Because install.sh is uploaded with immutable cache-control, missing the purge could leave one zone serving the previous release's install.sh next to a new release's install.sh.minisig.

Documentation

Refreshed the project tagline and intro across the README, docs site, landing page, man page, snapcraft/RPM/DEB/npm packaging metadata, and CLI help text to "Dev tools, env vars, and tasks in one CLI" with a clearer "what is it?" pitch focused on what mise does rather than what it replaces (#9418) by @jdx.
The docs site's GitHub star count is now prefixed with a ★ glyph for clarity (#9417) by @jdx.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/jdx/mise/compare/v2026.4.23...v2026.4.24