ruff 0.16.5

Release Notes

Released on 2026-08-27.

Preview features

• Allow rules without codes (#28049)
• Introduce category selectors (#27666)
• Update preview default rules and categories (#27877)

Bug fixes

• [flake8-async] Detect blocking generic HTTP requests (ASYNC210) (#28024)
• [flake8-datetimez] Allow timezone-safe strptime chains (DTZ007) (#28023)
• [flake8-simplify] Respect side effects in lambda defaults (SIM401) (#28000)

Server

• Fix duplicated "of" in ClientOptions doc comment (#27978)

Documentation

• Document rule acceptance guidelines (#27910)
• Document the new category selectors (#27906)

Contributors

• @AlexWaygood
• @sharkdp
• @jelle-openai
• @charliermarsh
• @ntBre
• @aarushkandukoori

Install ruff 0.16.5

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://releases.astral.sh/github/ruff/releases/download/0.16.5/ruff-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://releases.astral.sh/github/ruff/releases/download/0.16.5/ruff-installer.ps1 | iex"

Download ruff 0.16.5

File	Platform	Checksum
ruff-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
ruff-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Intel macOS	checksum
ruff-aarch64-pc-windows-msvc.zip	ARM64 Windows	checksum
ruff-i686-pc-windows-msvc.zip	x86 Windows	checksum
ruff-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip	x64 Windows	checksum
ruff-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
ruff-i686-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	x86 Linux	checksum
ruff-powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	PPC64 Linux	checksum
ruff-powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	PPC64LE Linux	checksum
ruff-riscv64gc-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	RISCV Linux	checksum
ruff-s390x-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	S390x Linux	checksum
ruff-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	x64 Linux	checksum
ruff-armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf.tar.gz	ARMv7 Linux	checksum
ruff-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz	ARM64 MUSL Linux	checksum
ruff-i686-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz	x86 MUSL Linux	checksum
ruff-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum
ruff-arm-unknown-linux-musleabihf.tar.gz	ARMv6 MUSL Linux (Hardfloat)	checksum
ruff-armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf.tar.gz	ARMv7 MUSL Linux	checksum

Verifying GitHub Artifact Attestations

The artifacts in this release have attestations generated with GitHub Artifact Attestations. These can be verified by using the GitHub CLI:

gh attestation verify <file-path of downloaded artifact> --repo astral-sh/ruff

You can also download the attestation from GitHub and verify against that directly:

gh attestation verify <file-path of downloaded artifact> --bundle <file-path of downloaded attestation>