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Black: all versions and old releases

The uncompromising Python code formatter

3 versions of Black are listed here, from October 7, 2024 to the current 26.5.1. Each one links to the publisher’s own installer files.

2024: 1 1 24 2025: 1 1 25 2026: 1 1 26

3 versions over 2 years · about 1.9 a year

VersionDateSizeFiles
26.5.1Latest May 18, 2026 — 64-bit Portable
Release notes
Stable style
- Fix unstable formatting of annotated assignments whose subscript annotation contains
an inline comment (e.g. x: list[ # pyright: ignore[...]) (#5130)
- Preserve inline comments (including # type: ignore) immediately before a
# fmt: skip line, avoiding AST equivalence failures (#5139)

Packaging
- Correct the version in the published executables (#5137)

Documentation
- Add Neovim integration guide covering conform.nvim, ALE, and simple command approaches
(#5124)
25.1.0 January 29, 2025 — 64-bit Portable
Release notes
Highlights
This release introduces the new 2025 stable style (#4558), stabilizing
the following changes:
- Normalize casing of Unicode escape characters in strings to lowercase (#2916)
- Fix inconsistencies in whether certain strings are detected as docstrings (#4095)
- Consistently add trailing commas to typed function parameters (#4164)
- Remove redundant parentheses in if guards for case blocks (#4214)
- Add parentheses to if clauses in case blocks when the line is too long (#4269)
- Whitespace before # fmt: skip comments is no longer normalized (#4146)
- Fix line length computation for certain expressions that involve the power operator (#4154)
- Check if there is a newline before the terminating quotes of a docstring (#4185)
- Fix type annotation spacing between * and more complex type variable tuple (#4440)
The following changes were not in any previous release:
- Remove parentheses around sole list items (#4312)
- Generic function definitions are now formatted more elegantly: parameters are
split over multiple lines first instead of type parameter definitions (#4553)
Stable style
- Fix formatting cells in IPython notebooks with magic methods and starting or trailing
empty lines (#4484)
- Fix crash when formatting with statements containing tuple generators/unpacking
(#4538)
Preview style
- Fix/remove string merging changing f-string quotes on f-strings with internal quotes
(#4498)
- Collapse multiple empty lines after an import into one (#4489)
- Prevent string_processing and wrap_long_dict_values_in_parens from removing
parentheses around long dictionary values (#4377)
- Move wrap_long_dict_values_in_parens from the unstable to preview style (#4561)
Packaging
- Store license identifier inside the License-Expression metadata field, see
PEP 639. (#4479)
Performance
- Speed up the is_fstring_start function in Black's tokenizer (#4541)
Integrations
- If using stdin with --stdin-filename set to a force excluded path, stdin won't be
formatted. (#4539)
24.10.0 October 7, 2024 — 64-bit Portable

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