Announce: passagemath 10.6.1.rc8 - modularized pip-installable fork of Sage

[Matthias Koeppe]

passagemath-10.6.1.rc8 Pre-release

New package for Geometric Invariant Theory

The new package compgit is a tool for computing Geometric Invariant Theory (GIT) quotients in algebraic geometry by @Robbie-H and @jesusmartinez-garcia.

What's Changed

• tox.ini: Add gentoo-py13 by @mkoeppe in #879
• tox.ini (docker): Set BUILDKIT_STEP_LOG_MAX_SIZE by @mkoeppe in #1247
• src/sage/features/kenzo.py: Update doctest output by @mkoeppe in #1248
• pkgs/sagemath-brial: Set runtime dependencies, set up testing by @mkoeppe in #1250
• pkgs/sagemath-brial/pyproject.toml.m4: Put back passagemath-categories as a build dependency by @mkoeppe in #1253
• pkgs/sagemath-singular/repair_wheel.py: Ship lib/singular/MOD by @mkoeppe in #1252
• Various # needs by @mkoeppe in #1256
• build/pkgs/compgit: New by @mkoeppe in #1259
• pkgs/sagemath-latte-4ti2: Fix for relocatable LattE/4ti2 binaries (fixup) by @mkoeppe in #1257
• build/pkgs/latte_int: Use std=c++17 by @mkoeppe in #1260

Full Changelog: passagemath-10.6.1.rc7...passagemath-10.6.1.rc8

About passagemath

For Python users:

- Provides the full functionality of Sage, installable instantly from binary wheels on PyPI:
https://github.com/passagemath/passagemath?tab=readme-ov-file#full-installation-of-passagemath-from-binary-wheels-on-pypi
- Binary wheels are available for Python 3.9–3.13, Linux and macOS, ARM and x86_64

- Binary wheels are available for a subset of the functionality for native Windows on x86_64.

For Sage package authors:
- Provides 71 modularized distributions of portions of the Sage library that can be declared as build-time and run-time dependencies, making your package a first-class member of the Python "ecosystem": https://github.com/passagemath/passagemath?tab=readme-ov-file#modularized-distributions

For Sage users/developers:
- The passagemath project maintains a stable version of the Sage distribution, supporting system Python 3.10–3.13, and provides the traditional installation mode using "make configure && ./configure && make build".
- New packages: CMR, Macaulay2, mpsolve, pplite/pplitepy, Py4ti2.
- Numerous package upgrades, carried out with rigorous platform portability testing on a wide range of platforms.
- In passagemath-10.6.1, the Sage library is up to date with SageMath 10.7.beta6 (2025-06).

For downstream packagers:
- Each of the 71 modularized distribution packages is provided on PyPI in the form of sdists that adhere to PEP 517/518. https://pypi.org/org/passagemath/
- Use "export SAGE_CONF_FILE=/dev/null" to disable the passagemath confectionery (https://pypi.org/project/passagemath-conf/), or specify a file to side-load configuration values. 

- Non-Python dependencies of each distribution package are declared in pyproject.toml in the format proposed by draft https://peps.python.org/pep-0725

For upstream projects:
- Consider adopting the modularized passagemath distribution package that provides an interface to your library as the official Python interface package.

For inquiries / discussion, please use the passagemath forums.
https://github.com/passagemath#passagemath-community