diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 268138260a..c2f26506c8 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "age"
-version = "0.10.1"
+version = "0.10.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "77de71da1ca673855aacea507a7aed363beb8934cf61b62364fc4b479d2e8cda"
+checksum = "edeef7d7b199195a2d7d7a8155d2d04aee736e60c5c7bdd7097d115369a8817d"
 dependencies = [
  "age-core",
  "base64 0.21.7",
@@ -693,15 +693,15 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "console"
-version = "0.15.10"
+version = "0.15.8"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ea3c6ecd8059b57859df5c69830340ed3c41d30e3da0c1cbed90a96ac853041b"
+checksum = "0e1f83fc076bd6dd27517eacdf25fef6c4dfe5f1d7448bafaaf3a26f13b5e4eb"
 dependencies = [
  "encode_unicode",
+ "lazy_static",
  "libc",
- "once_cell",
- "unicode-width 0.2.0",
- "windows-sys 0.59.0",
+ "unicode-width 0.1.14",
+ "windows-sys 0.52.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1155,9 +1155,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "encode_unicode"
-version = "1.0.0"
+version = "0.3.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "34aa73646ffb006b8f5147f3dc182bd4bcb190227ce861fc4a4844bf8e3cb2c0"
+checksum = "a357d28ed41a50f9c765dbfe56cbc04a64e53e5fc58ba79fbc34c10ef3df831f"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "encoding_rs"
@@ -1269,7 +1269,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "pest_derive",
  "regex",
  "strum",
- "thiserror 2.0.8",
+ "thiserror 2.0.7",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1339,7 +1339,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "c936bfdafb507ebbf50b8074c54fa31c5be9a1e7e5f467dd659697041407d07c"
 dependencies = [
  "crc32fast",
- "miniz_oxide 0.8.2",
+ "miniz_oxide 0.8.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1698,11 +1698,11 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "home"
-version = "0.5.11"
+version = "0.5.9"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "589533453244b0995c858700322199b2becb13b627df2851f64a2775d024abcf"
+checksum = "e3d1354bf6b7235cb4a0576c2619fd4ed18183f689b12b006a0ee7329eeff9a5"
 dependencies = [
- "windows-sys 0.59.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.52.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1774,9 +1774,9 @@ checksum = "9a3a5bfb195931eeb336b2a7b4d761daec841b97f947d34394601737a7bba5e4"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "hyper"
-version = "1.5.2"
+version = "1.5.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "256fb8d4bd6413123cc9d91832d78325c48ff41677595be797d90f42969beae0"
+checksum = "97818827ef4f364230e16705d4706e2897df2bb60617d6ca15d598025a3c481f"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "futures-channel",
@@ -1794,9 +1794,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "hyper-rustls"
-version = "0.27.4"
+version = "0.27.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f6884a48c6826ec44f524c7456b163cebe9e55a18d7b5e307cb4f100371cc767"
+checksum = "08afdbb5c31130e3034af566421053ab03787c640246a446327f550d11bcb333"
 dependencies = [
  "futures-util",
  "http",
@@ -2576,9 +2576,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "miniz_oxide"
-version = "0.8.2"
+version = "0.8.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "4ffbe83022cedc1d264172192511ae958937694cd57ce297164951b8b3568394"
+checksum = "e2d80299ef12ff69b16a84bb182e3b9df68b5a91574d3d4fa6e41b65deec4df1"
 dependencies = [
  "adler2",
 ]
@@ -2678,7 +2678,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tera",
  "terminal_size",
  "test-log",
- "thiserror 2.0.8",
+ "thiserror 2.0.7",
  "tokio",
  "toml 0.8.19",
  "toml_edit",
@@ -3035,7 +3035,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "8b7cafe60d6cf8e62e1b9b2ea516a089c008945bb5a275416789e7db0bc199dc"
 dependencies = [
  "memchr",
- "thiserror 2.0.8",
+ "thiserror 2.0.7",
  "ucd-trie",
 ]
 
@@ -3306,7 +3306,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rustc-hash 2.1.0",
  "rustls",
  "socket2",
- "thiserror 2.0.8",
+ "thiserror 2.0.7",
  "tokio",
  "tracing",
 ]
@@ -3325,7 +3325,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rustls",
  "rustls-pki-types",
  "slab",
- "thiserror 2.0.8",
+ "thiserror 2.0.7",
  "tinyvec",
  "tracing",
  "web-time",
@@ -3333,9 +3333,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "quinn-udp"
-version = "0.5.9"
+version = "0.5.8"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1c40286217b4ba3a71d644d752e6a0b71f13f1b6a2c5311acfcbe0c2418ed904"
+checksum = "52cd4b1eff68bf27940dd39811292c49e007f4d0b4c357358dc9b0197be6b527"
 dependencies = [
  "cfg_aliases",
  "libc",
@@ -3703,7 +3703,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "openssl-probe",
  "rustls-pki-types",
  "schannel",
- "security-framework 3.1.0",
+ "security-framework 3.0.1",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3815,9 +3815,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "security-framework"
-version = "3.1.0"
+version = "3.0.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "81d3f8c9bfcc3cbb6b0179eb57042d75b1582bdc65c3cb95f3fa999509c03cbc"
+checksum = "e1415a607e92bec364ea2cf9264646dcce0f91e6d65281bd6f2819cca3bf39c8"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags",
  "core-foundation 0.10.0",
@@ -3828,9 +3828,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "security-framework-sys"
-version = "2.13.0"
+version = "2.12.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1863fd3768cd83c56a7f60faa4dc0d403f1b6df0a38c3c25f44b7894e45370d5"
+checksum = "fa39c7303dc58b5543c94d22c1766b0d31f2ee58306363ea622b10bbc075eaa2"
 dependencies = [
  "core-foundation-sys",
  "libc",
@@ -4467,11 +4467,11 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "thiserror"
-version = "2.0.8"
+version = "2.0.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "08f5383f3e0071702bf93ab5ee99b52d26936be9dedd9413067cbdcddcb6141a"
+checksum = "93605438cbd668185516ab499d589afb7ee1859ea3d5fc8f6b0755e1c7443767"
 dependencies = [
- "thiserror-impl 2.0.8",
+ "thiserror-impl 2.0.7",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -4487,9 +4487,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "thiserror-impl"
-version = "2.0.8"
+version = "2.0.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f2f357fcec90b3caef6623a099691be676d033b40a058ac95d2a6ade6fa0c943"
+checksum = "e1d8749b4531af2117677a5fcd12b1348a3fe2b81e36e61ffeac5c4aa3273e36"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
@@ -4790,7 +4790,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
  "strum",
  "tempfile",
- "thiserror 2.0.8",
+ "thiserror 2.0.7",
  "url",
  "which 7.0.0",
  "xz2",
@@ -4938,9 +4938,9 @@ checksum = "daf8dba3b7eb870caf1ddeed7bc9d2a049f3cfdfae7cb521b087cc33ae4c49da"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "usage-lib"
-version = "1.7.1"
+version = "1.6.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "df120279033104f58e593407d0a5303dc918b7fb06c1a13365f799ae0d88c398"
+checksum = "bd75b195d7d5e9232b7b0f5a76d2e13ca4b8ac765180aa37737adec4baa28ad1"
 dependencies = [
  "clap",
  "heck 0.5.0",
@@ -4955,7 +4955,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "shell-words",
  "strum",
  "tera",
- "thiserror 2.0.8",
+ "thiserror 2.0.7",
  "versions",
  "xx",
 ]
@@ -5023,7 +5023,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "tempfile",
- "thiserror 2.0.8",
+ "thiserror 2.0.7",
  "tokio",
  "url",
  "xx",
@@ -5540,7 +5540,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "reqwest",
  "sha2",
  "tar",
- "thiserror 2.0.8",
+ "thiserror 2.0.7",
  "tokio",
  "xz2",
  "zip",
@@ -5671,9 +5671,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "zip"
-version = "2.2.2"
+version = "2.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ae9c1ea7b3a5e1f4b922ff856a129881167511563dc219869afe3787fc0c1a45"
+checksum = "99d52293fc86ea7cf13971b3bb81eb21683636e7ae24c729cdaf1b7c4157a352"
 dependencies = [
  "aes",
  "arbitrary",
@@ -5691,7 +5691,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "pbkdf2",
  "rand",
  "sha1",
- "thiserror 2.0.8",
+ "thiserror 2.0.7",
  "time",
  "zeroize",
  "zopfli",
diff --git a/e2e/env/test_env_source b/e2e/env/test_env_source
index fc8e087aab..baa5aa3cc0 100644
--- a/e2e/env/test_env_source
+++ b/e2e/env/test_env_source
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ EOF
 
 cat >"$MISE_CONFIG_DIR/source.sh" <<EOF
 export MISE_TEST_SOURCE=1234
+export PATH="$HOME/newbin:$PATH"
 EOF
 
 assert "mise env -s bash | grep MISE_TEST_SOURCE" "export MISE_TEST_SOURCE=1234"
+assert_contains "mise env -s bash | grep PATH" "export PATH='$HOME/newbin:"
diff --git a/e2e/tasks/test_task_help b/e2e/tasks/test_task_help
deleted file mode 100644
index caa65ec331..0000000000
--- a/e2e/tasks/test_task_help
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-cat <<EOF >mise.toml
-[tasks.a]
-run = 'echo {{arg(name="myarg")}}'
-EOF
-
-assert "mise run a --help" "x"
diff --git a/mise.lock b/mise.lock
index 1328d9fd26..e05efad42b 100644
--- a/mise.lock
+++ b/mise.lock
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ version = "0.2.3"
 backend = "cargo:toml-cli"
 
 [tools."cargo:usage-cli"]
-version = "1.7.1"
+version = "1.6.0"
 backend = "cargo:usage-cli"
 
 [tools.cosign]
diff --git a/src/backend/asdf.rs b/src/backend/asdf.rs
index 7c7439cffe..d72cf71da1 100644
--- a/src/backend/asdf.rs
+++ b/src/backend/asdf.rs
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ impl AsdfBackend {
         }
         let script = sm.get_script_path(&ExecEnv);
         let dir = dirs::CWD.clone().unwrap_or_default();
-        let ed = EnvDiff::from_bash_script(&script, &dir, &sm.env)?;
+        let ed = EnvDiff::from_bash_script(&script, &dir, &sm.env, Default::default())?;
         let env = ed
             .to_patches()
             .into_iter()
diff --git a/src/cli/run.rs b/src/cli/run.rs
index 7ef48e0a0f..7be5155fcc 100644
--- a/src/cli/run.rs
+++ b/src/cli/run.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ use std::collections::{BTreeMap, HashSet};
 use std::io::Write;
 use std::iter::once;
 use std::ops::Deref;
-use std::panic;
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 use std::process::Stdio;
 use std::sync::Mutex;
@@ -232,10 +231,6 @@ impl Run {
                 s.spawn(|_| {
                     let task = t;
                     let tx_err = tx_err;
-                    panic::set_hook(Box::new(|info| {
-                        eprintln!("panic in task: {info}");
-                        exit(1);
-                    }));
                     if !self.is_stopping() {
                         trace!("running task: {task}");
                         if let Err(err) = self.run_task(&task) {
diff --git a/src/config/env_directive/mod.rs b/src/config/env_directive/mod.rs
index 23cde2f957..45d7de11d4 100644
--- a/src/config/env_directive/mod.rs
+++ b/src/config/env_directive/mod.rs
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ impl EnvResults {
                         &mut ctx,
                         &mut tera,
                         &mut env,
+                        &mut paths,
                         &mut r,
                         normalize_path,
                         &source,
diff --git a/src/config/env_directive/source.rs b/src/config/env_directive/source.rs
index d846a12406..ab123a6d26 100644
--- a/src/config/env_directive/source.rs
+++ b/src/config/env_directive/source.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 use crate::config::env_directive::EnvResults;
-use crate::env_diff::{EnvDiff, EnvDiffOperation, EnvMap};
+use crate::env_diff::{EnvDiff, EnvDiffOperation, EnvDiffOptions, EnvMap};
 use indexmap::IndexMap;
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+use crate::env;
 
 impl EnvResults {
     #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
@@ -9,6 +10,7 @@ impl EnvResults {
         ctx: &mut tera::Context,
         tera: &mut tera::Tera,
         env: &mut IndexMap<String, (String, Option<PathBuf>)>,
+        paths: &mut Vec<(PathBuf, PathBuf)>,
         r: &mut EnvResults,
         normalize_path: fn(&Path, PathBuf) -> PathBuf,
         source: &Path,
@@ -19,13 +21,25 @@ impl EnvResults {
         if let Ok(s) = r.parse_template(ctx, tera, source, &input) {
             for p in xx::file::glob(normalize_path(config_root, s.into())).unwrap_or_default() {
                 r.env_scripts.push(p.clone());
-                let env_diff = EnvDiff::from_bash_script(&p, config_root, env_vars.clone())
+                let orig_path = env_vars.get(&*env::PATH_KEY).cloned().unwrap_or_default();
+                let mut env_diff_opts = EnvDiffOptions::default();
+                env_diff_opts.ignore_keys.shift_remove(&*env::PATH_KEY); // allow modifying PATH
+                let env_diff = EnvDiff::from_bash_script(&p, config_root, env_vars.clone(), env_diff_opts)
                     .unwrap_or_default();
                 for p in env_diff.to_patches() {
                     match p {
                         EnvDiffOperation::Add(k, v) | EnvDiffOperation::Change(k, v) => {
-                            r.env_remove.remove(&k);
-                            env.insert(k.clone(), (v.clone(), Some(source.to_path_buf())));
+                            if k == *env::PATH_KEY {
+                                // TODO: perhaps deal with path removals as well
+                                if let Some(new_path) = v.strip_suffix(&orig_path) {
+                                    for p in env::split_paths(new_path) {
+                                        paths.push((p, source.to_path_buf()));
+                                    }
+                                }
+                            } else {
+                                r.env_remove.remove(&k);
+                                env.insert(k.clone(), (v.clone(), Some(source.to_path_buf())));
+                            }
                         }
                         EnvDiffOperation::Remove(k) => {
                             env.shift_remove(&k);
diff --git a/src/env_diff.rs b/src/env_diff.rs
index 3082988795..53355ccd27 100644
--- a/src/env_diff.rs
+++ b/src/env_diff.rs
@@ -2,14 +2,16 @@ use std::collections::BTreeMap;
 use std::ffi::OsString;
 use std::fmt::Debug;
 use std::io::prelude::*;
+use std::iter::once;
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 
 use base64::prelude::*;
 use eyre::Result;
 use flate2::write::{ZlibDecoder, ZlibEncoder};
 use flate2::Compression;
-use indexmap::IndexMap;
+use indexmap::{IndexMap, IndexSet};
 use itertools::Itertools;
+use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use serde_derive::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 
 use crate::env::PATH_KEY;
@@ -60,7 +62,7 @@ impl EnvDiff {
         diff
     }
 
-    pub fn from_bash_script<T, U, V>(script: &Path, dir: &Path, env: T) -> Result<Self>
+    pub fn from_bash_script<T, U, V>(script: &Path, dir: &Path, env: T, opts: EnvDiffOptions) -> Result<Self>
     where
         T: IntoIterator<Item = (U, V)>,
         U: Into<OsString>,
@@ -92,7 +94,7 @@ impl EnvDiff {
             match line.strip_prefix("declare -x ") {
                 Some(line) => {
                     let (k, v) = line.split_once('=').unwrap_or_default();
-                    if valid_key(k) {
+                    if invalid_key(k, &opts) {
                         continue;
                     }
                     cur_key = Some(k.to_string());
@@ -161,20 +163,9 @@ impl EnvDiff {
     }
 }
 
-fn valid_key(k: &str) -> bool {
+fn invalid_key(k: &str, opts: &EnvDiffOptions) -> bool {
     k.is_empty()
-        || k == "_"
-        || k == "SHLVL"
-        || k == *PATH_KEY
-        || k == "PWD"
-        || k == "OLDPWD"
-        || k == "HOME"
-        || k == "USER"
-        || k == "SHELL"
-        || k == "SHELLOPTS"
-        || k == "COMP_WORDBREAKS"
-        || k == "PS1"
-        || k == "PROMPT_DIRTRIM"
+        || opts.ignore_keys.contains(k)
         // following two ignores are for exported bash functions and exported bash
         // functions which are multiline, they appear in the environment as e.g.:
         // BASH_FUNC_exported-bash-function%%=() { echo "this is an"
@@ -185,6 +176,25 @@ fn valid_key(k: &str) -> bool {
         || k.starts_with(' ')
 }
 
+static DEFAULT_IGNORE_KEYS: Lazy<IndexSet<String>> = Lazy::new(|| {
+    [
+        "_",
+        "SHLVL",
+        "PWD",
+        "OLDPWD",
+        "HOME",
+        "USER",
+        "SHELL",
+        "SHELLOPTS",
+        "COMP_WORDBREAKS",
+        "PS1",
+        "PROMPT_DIRTRIM",
+    ]
+    .iter()
+    .map(|s| s.to_string())
+    .collect()
+});
+
 impl Debug for EnvDiff {
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
         let print_sorted = |hashmap: &IndexMap<String, String>| {
@@ -248,6 +258,22 @@ fn normalize_escape_sequences(input: &str) -> String {
     result
 }
 
+pub struct EnvDiffOptions {
+    pub ignore_keys: IndexSet<String>,
+}
+
+impl Default for EnvDiffOptions {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            ignore_keys: DEFAULT_IGNORE_KEYS
+                .iter()
+                .cloned()
+                .chain(once(PATH_KEY.to_string()))
+                .collect()
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
@@ -356,7 +382,7 @@ mod tests {
             .map(|(k, v)| (k.into(), v.into()))
             .collect::<Vec<(String, String)>>();
         let cwd = dirs::CWD.clone().unwrap();
-        let ed = EnvDiff::from_bash_script(path.as_path(), &cwd, orig).unwrap();
+        let ed = EnvDiff::from_bash_script(path.as_path(), &cwd, orig, Default::default()).unwrap();
         assert_debug_snapshot!(ed);
     }
 
diff --git a/tasks.toml b/tasks.toml
index b214f2dc9f..20f339c0d7 100644
--- a/tasks.toml
+++ b/tasks.toml
@@ -130,5 +130,5 @@ run = "cargo install --path . --debug"
 [xxx]
 hide = true
 tools = { gh = "2.60.0" }
-run = "echo {{arg(name='greeting')}}"
+run = "gh --version"
 description = "a task for testing"
diff --git a/xtasks/release-plz b/xtasks/release-plz
index 893271d2bc..67bc445dab 100755
--- a/xtasks/release-plz
+++ b/xtasks/release-plz
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ sed -i.bak "s/version = \"[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\(-rc\.[0-9]\+\)\?\";$/versio
 
 mise run render ::: lint-fix
 
-cargo update
+# disable until next kdl-rs has compatible miette
+#cargo update
 git add \
   Cargo.lock \
   Cargo.toml \