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https://entire.io/gh/jdx/mise/trails/820

Problem

On Windows, "exe" shims are byte copies of the mise-shim.exe that ships beside mise.exe. An update that replaces mise.exe but leaves an older mise-shim.exe behind keeps producing shims with the old launcher: mise reshim --force copies whatever template it finds, and nothing said so. In discussion #14494 a winget install had mise 2026.10.11 next to a mise-shim.exe from 2026.7.0, which predates the shim's recursion guard, so a cargo command wrapper looped forever through mise x no matter how often shims were rebuilt. The .version marker in the shims directory did not help: it records the mise that ran reshim, not the template the shims came from.

What changes

mise-shim.exe now carries the mise release it shipped with, as a mise-shim-version:<release> tag mise can read back from the file. The release comes from the workspace Cargo.toml, not the mise-shim crate's own version, which does not move with releases.

When the template beside mise is older than mise, or has no tag at all (every mise-shim.exe before this change):

• mise doctor lists it as a problem.
• mise reshim (including mise reshim --force and the reshims that follow a tool install) warns once per run, and still rebuilds the shims.

Both say the same thing:

mise-shim.exe at C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Links\mise-shim.exe is older than mise 2026.10.13: it is from mise 2026.7.0
shims copied from it keep the old launcher, however often `mise reshim --force` runs
update mise with the package manager that installed it (or `mise self-update`) so mise-shim.exe is replaced too, then run `mise reshim --force`

For an untagged template the first line ends with it has no version tag, so it predates this check. Nothing is reported outside windows_shim_mode = "exe", when no template exists (that case already warns), or when the template is the same release as mise or newer. mise self-update already refreshes mise-shim.exe next to mise; it copies the whole file, so the tag comes with it.

Validation

Unit tests cover the tag scan (a current tag, an older tag, the prefix without a version, an unterminated tag, and bytes without a tag) and the staleness comparison. The tag's presence and its terminating newline were checked in mise-shim binaries built for Linux, x86_64-pc-windows-gnu, and the release profile. cargo clippy --workspace --all-features --all-targets -- -D warnings passes. The mise doctor and mise reshim paths themselves are #[cfg(windows)] and were not run here: the Windows CI builds mise.exe and mise-shim.exe from the same tree, so they exercise the "template is current" case.

Fixes the diagnosis gap from #14494. Requires a mise release built after this change on both sides: an older mise-shim.exe is reported as untagged, which is the intended outcome.

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Medium Risk
Windows-only shim/doctor behavior with new binary embedding, but it only surfaces diagnostics when the launcher template is outdated and does not change non-exe shim modes.

Overview
Windows exe shims are copies of mise-shim.exe; if an update refreshes mise.exe but not the shim template, mise reshim --force keeps propagating the old launcher. This PR embeds a mise-shim-version:<release> tag in mise-shim.exe at build time (from the workspace Cargo.toml, with a shared prefix asset so mise and the shim crate stay aligned).

mise scans that tag on the template beside mise.exe and compares it to the running release. A missing or older tag triggers a mise doctor error and a one-time mise reshim warning (reshim still runs). Docs now explain that Windows shims copy mise-shim.exe and how to fix a stale template via the installer or mise self-update, then mise reshim --force.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Windows mise doctor now reports when the shim launcher is older than the installed mise release, in both text and JSON output.
  • Windows reshim warns when its launcher template is outdated, while still completing the operation.
• Documentation
  • Clarified how Windows shim launchers are installed and how to update an outdated launcher using mise’s package manager or mise self-update, followed by a forced reshim.

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📝 Walkthrough

The native shim now embeds its mise release version. On Windows, reshim warns when the template is stale, and doctor reports stale templates as errors in text and JSON output. The shim documentation describes the stale-launcher case and update steps.

Changes: Windows native shim version checks

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Embed the native shim version src/assets/native-shim-version-prefix, crates/mise-shim/build.rs, crates/mise-shim/src/main.rs, src/shims.rs	The build script combines the version prefix with the package version. The native shim embeds the resulting tag, and src/shims.rs defines the tag prefix used to locate it.
Detect stale native shim templates src/shims.rs	Windows code reads the template’s tag and compares its version with the running mise release. Reshim warns once when the template is stale. Tests cover tag parsing and stale-version comparisons.
Report stale templates src/cli/doctor/mod.rs, docs/dev-tools/shims.md	Windows text and JSON doctor paths report stale templates as errors. The documentation describes the stale-launcher case and update steps.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MiseDoctor
  participant MiseReshim
  participant stale_native_shim_template
  participant NativeShimTemplate
  MiseDoctor->>stale_native_shim_template: Check the Windows shim template
  stale_native_shim_template->>NativeShimTemplate: Read the embedded version tag
  NativeShimTemplate-->>stale_native_shim_template: Return tag bytes
  stale_native_shim_template-->>MiseDoctor: Return stale-template result when stale
  MiseReshim->>stale_native_shim_template: Check the Windows shim template
  stale_native_shim_template-->>MiseReshim: Return stale-template result when stale

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Windows users running prerelease builds may see a fresh shim template reported as stale, although reshim continues rebuilding. This is a bounded development-build issue rather than a release-wide failure; address the version parsing before relying on prerelease builds.

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Summary

Adds Windows warnings when mise-shim.exe is older than mise.

• Windows exe shims now report when their launcher template is out of date.

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Review comments at @crates/mise-shim/build.rs:
- Around line 39-44: Update the version parsing in the build script’s
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🟡 Minor · Handle SemVer prerelease versions in native shim tags. · shims.rs:1288-1295

src/shims.rs:1288-1295
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Handle SemVer prerelease versions in native shim tags.

Cargo permits a root package version such as 2026.10.12-rc.1, and the normal Cargo build embeds that value verbatim in mise-shim.exe. native_shim_version rejects the -rc.1 suffix and returns None, so stale_native_shim_template_from marks this freshly built template as stale. Windows reshim then warns, and mise doctor reports an error.

Use the same SemVer-aware parsing and ordering for tag scanning and freshness comparison. No normalization currently prevents this mismatch.

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Review comment at @src/shims.rs around lines 1288 - 1295:
Update native_shim_version and stale_native_shim_template_from to parse and
compare native shim tags using SemVer-aware logic, including prerelease versions
such as -rc.1. Ensure tag scanning and freshness comparison use consistent
parsing and ordering so a matching freshly built template is not marked stale.

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Instruction counts

benchmark	trend	instructions	Δ	wall (min)	Δ
env	▁▂▁▁▂▄▇█▄	30,720,746 → 30,640,209	-0.26%	19.73 → 19.96ms	+1.18%
hook-env	▂▃▄▂▁▂██▅	32,993,787 → 32,903,672	-0.27%	21.01 → 21.21ms	+0.93%
ls	▁▂▁▂▂▂█▆▅	34,932,769 → 34,906,730	-0.07%	21.72 → 22.19ms	+2.16%
registry	▃▃▄▅▅█▅▆▁	43,706,401 → 43,582,482	-0.28%	18.79 → 19.03ms	+1.32%
startup	▁▁▂▂▁▂▅█▄	12,075,760 → 11,991,373	-0.70%	12.33 → 12.45ms	+0.96%

No instruction-count regression above 1%.

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