Nuitka 2.6 not prompting for download of gcc compiler

I've tried installing nuitka on a new windows installation. Instead of prompting me to download the gcc compiler it directly printed "FATAL: Only this specific gcc is supported with Nuitka. Make sure to allow downloading it when prompted." After specifically installing nuitka 2.5.9 it prompted me just fine. So this looks like a regression to me.

2.6
Commercial: None
Python: 3.11.9 (tags/v3.11.9:de54cf5, Apr  2 2024, 10:12:12) [MSC v.1938 64 bit (AMD64)]
Flavor: CPython Official
Executable: C:\Program Files\Python311\python.exe
OS: Windows
Arch: x86_64
WindowsRelease: 11
FATAL: Only this specific gcc is supported with Nuitka. Make sure to allow downloading it when prompted.

I used pip to install nuitka.

Underneath is the log of the attempted install of nuitka 2.6 where I did not get prompted for install of the compiler:

PS C:\Users\GPUVM> python -m pip install nuitka
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting nuitka
  Downloading Nuitka-2.6.tar.gz (3.9 MB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3.9/3.9 MB 9.5 MB/s eta 0:00:00
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Collecting ordered-set>=4.1.0 (from nuitka)
  Downloading ordered_set-4.1.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.3 kB)
Collecting zstandard>=0.15 (from nuitka)
  Downloading zstandard-0.23.0-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl.metadata (3.0 kB)
Downloading ordered_set-4.1.0-py3-none-any.whl (7.6 kB)
Downloading zstandard-0.23.0-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl (495 kB)
   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 495.4/495.4 kB 15.7 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Building wheels for collected packages: nuitka
  Building wheel for nuitka (pyproject.toml) ... done
  Created wheel for nuitka: filename=Nuitka-2.6-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl size=3566843 sha256=964a8cb420757f0261aa37baa71fc5d93b3b4f3f114fcfdd1081b5c544347e15
  Stored in directory: c:\users\gpuvm\appdata\local\pip\cache\wheels\f2\5d\85\e6390d2f2238db127602704ddf849f786ccc87e0376929522e
Successfully built nuitka
Installing collected packages: zstandard, ordered-set, nuitka
Successfully installed nuitka-2.6 ordered-set-4.1.0 zstandard-0.23.0

[notice] A new release of pip is available: 24.0 -> 24.3.1
[notice] To update, run: python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip
PS C:\Users\GPUVM> python -m nuitka --version
2.6
Commercial: None
Python: 3.11.9 (tags/v3.11.9:de54cf5, Apr  2 2024, 10:12:12) [MSC v.1938 64 bit (AMD64)]
Flavor: CPython Official
Executable: C:\Program Files\Python311\python.exe
OS: Windows
Arch: x86_64
WindowsRelease: 11
FATAL: Only this specific gcc is supported with Nuitka. Make sure to allow downloading it when prompted.
PS C:\Users\GPUVM> python -m nuitka --version
2.6
Commercial: None
Python: 3.11.9 (tags/v3.11.9:de54cf5, Apr  2 2024, 10:12:12) [MSC v.1938 64 bit (AMD64)]
Flavor: CPython Official
Executable: C:\Program Files\Python311\python.exe
OS: Windows
Arch: x86_64
WindowsRelease: 11
FATAL: Only this specific gcc is supported with Nuitka. Make sure to allow downloading it when prompted.

Here is the log of installing nuitka 2.5.9, where i was prompted as expected.

PS C:\Users\GPUVM> python -m pip install nuitka==2.5.9
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting nuitka==2.5.9
  Downloading Nuitka-2.5.9.tar.gz (3.8 MB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3.8/3.8 MB 16.1 MB/s eta 0:00:00
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Requirement already satisfied: ordered-set>=4.1.0 in c:\users\gpuvm\appdata\roaming\python\python311\site-packages (from nuitka==2.5.9) (4.1.0)
Requirement already satisfied: zstandard>=0.15 in c:\users\gpuvm\appdata\roaming\python\python311\site-packages (from nuitka==2.5.9) (0.23.0)
Building wheels for collected packages: nuitka
  Building wheel for nuitka (pyproject.toml) ... done
  Created wheel for nuitka: filename=Nuitka-2.5.9-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl size=3480022 sha256=af8fdd334849e59cf41756cb5d7e1e59be3a1d662877679f68a2bf275d110d75
  Stored in directory: c:\users\gpuvm\appdata\local\pip\cache\wheels\09\5e\de\2559d130da9523ea7b3710ae61e8d722697a99480485aa5d89
Successfully built nuitka
Installing collected packages: nuitka
Successfully installed nuitka-2.5.9

[notice] A new release of pip is available: 24.0 -> 24.3.1
[notice] To update, run: python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip
PS C:\Users\GPUVM> python -m nuitka --version
2.5.9
Commercial: None
Python: 3.11.9 (tags/v3.11.9:de54cf5, Apr  2 2024, 10:12:12) [MSC v.1938 64 bit (AMD64)]
Flavor: CPython Official
Executable: C:\Program Files\Python311\python.exe
OS: Windows
Arch: x86_64
WindowsRelease: 11
Nuitka will use gcc from MinGW64 of winlibs to compile on Windows.

Is it OK to download and put it in 'C:\Users\GPUVM\AppData\Local\Nuitka\Nuitka\Cache\DOWNLO~1\gcc\x86_64\14.2.0posix-19.1.1-12.0.0-msvcrt-r2'.

Fully automatic, cached. Proceed and download? [Yes]/No : Yes
Nuitka: Downloading
Nuitka: 'https://github.com/brechtsanders/winlibs_mingw/releases/download/14.2.0posix-19.1.1-12.0.0-msvcrt-r2/winlibs-x86_64-posix-seh-gcc-14.2.0-llvm-19.1.1-mingw-w64msvcrt-12.0.0-r2.zip'.
Nuitka: Extracting to 'C:\Users\GPUVM\AppData\Local\Nuitka\Nuitka\Cache\DOWNLO~1\gcc\x86_64\14.2.0posix-19.1.1-12.0.0-msvcrt-r2\mingw64\bin\gcc.exe'
Version C compiler: ~\AppData\Local\Nuitka\Nuitka\Cache\DOWNLO~1\gcc\x86_64\14.2.0posix-19.1.1-12.0.0-msvcrt-r2\mingw64\bin\gcc.exe (gcc 14.2.0).
PS C:\Users\GPUVM> python -m nuitka --version
2.5.9
Commercial: None
Python: 3.11.9 (tags/v3.11.9:de54cf5, Apr  2 2024, 10:12:12) [MSC v.1938 64 bit (AMD64)]
Flavor: CPython Official
Executable: C:\Program Files\Python311\python.exe
OS: Windows
Arch: x86_64
WindowsRelease: 11
Version C compiler: ~\AppData\Local\Nuitka\Nuitka\Cache\DOWNLO~1\gcc\x86_64\14.2.0posix-19.1.1-12.0.0-msvcrt-r2\mingw64\bin\gcc.exe (gcc 14.2.0).