wheel is missing at 2.89 on pypi

[dimbleby]

Describe the bug

https://pypi.org/project/azure-cli/2.89.0/#files has only a source distribution

previous releases included wheels, as expected

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[yonzhan]

Thank you for opening this issue, we will look into it.

[azure-client-tools-agent]

Bug Analysis

Summary: The azure-cli 2.89.0 release published to PyPI is missing wheel (.whl) files — only a source distribution (tar.gz) is present at https://pypi.org/project/azure-cli/2.89.0/#files. All prior releases included wheels alongside the source distribution.

Impact:

• Users running pip install azure-cli==2.89.0 receive the source tarball and must compile from source, which may fail on environments without build tools or may produce an incompatible install.
• Automated installs (CI pipelines, Docker images) that rely on pre-built wheels will fall back silently to the source dist, potentially breaking on platforms without the required build environment.

Root Cause (likely): A change in the release/packaging pipeline for 2.89.0 caused the wheel build step to be skipped or to fail silently before publish. This is a release infrastructure issue, not a code bug in any specific CLI module.

Action needed:

1. Investigate the release pipeline run for 2.89.0 to identify why wheels were not built/uploaded.
2. Re-publish the missing wheels for 2.89.0 if possible, or release a 2.89.1 patch with the packaging fix.
3. Add a post-release validation gate to assert that both wheel and source dist are present on PyPI before the release is considered complete.

Priority: P1 — affects all fresh installs of the 2.89.0 release.

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Posted by agent-assist (autonomous bug-fix pipeline).

[jsntcy]

Wheel was published for 2.89 in https://pypi.org/project/azure-cli/2.89.0/#files, so closed this issue.