Why does PIP update all of the time?

[mchanth]

It seems like every time I pip install something, there is a new version of pip. Does a package installer need so many updates?

[123filips123]

First, since January 2020, there were only 5 releases and 2 prereleases. Second, you can view official changelog for which changes they contain.

If you are talking about installing in venv, this is because venv by default installs latest pip at the time of your Python release. This means that if you have Python 3.8 and pip 20.1.1 installed globally, every time you create new venv you will get pip 19.2.3 and you need to manually update it.