$ make publish
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- The build now errors if an existing Python virtual environment is found in the build directory at `.venv/` or `venv/`. This replaces the warning displayed since September 2025. ([#1990](https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-python/pull/1990))
- Stopped adding the current working directory to `PATH`. ([#1987](https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-python/pull/1987))

Deploy as v324 [y/n]? y

Creating GitHub release...
https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-python/releases/tag/v324

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 324     2025-12-09T11:01:40.155Z published