diff --git a/.changelog/_unreleased.toml b/.changelog/_unreleased.toml
index 28ec3dba..94365f7b 100644
--- a/.changelog/_unreleased.toml
+++ b/.changelog/_unreleased.toml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 id = "b6fb5e00-0bed-4e07-8cf3-c16c394d40fe"
 type = "improvement"
 description = "Replace `rich` logger with `loguru` which produces nicer log formatting and requires less setup"
+author = "@NiklasRosenstein"
 
 [[entries]]
 id = "5f259115-ab4d-43d1-b23f-6b2436f26bb2"
@@ -9,3 +10,10 @@ type = "feature"
 description = "Add `buildscript(interpreter_constraint)` argument"
 author = "@NiklasRosenstein"
 component = "kraken-wrapper"
+
+[[entries]]
+id = "9a319506-3900-402f-a40b-ad9052acfbbf"
+type = "fix"
+description = "Detect Pyenv shims in interpreter constraint matching and ignore them by default; and if not ignore, then do not commit their version to the cache as the Python version they represent might change."
+author = "@NiklasRosenstein"
+component = "kraken-wrapper"
diff --git a/kraken-build/src/kraken/common/findpython.py b/kraken-build/src/kraken/common/findpython.py
index 1c0b1b13..5be1ce90 100644
--- a/kraken-build/src/kraken/common/findpython.py
+++ b/kraken-build/src/kraken/common/findpython.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ class InterpreterCandidate(TypedDict):
     path: str
     min_version: NotRequired[str | None]
     exact_version: NotRequired[str | None]
+    shim: NotRequired[bool]
 
 
 class Interpreter(TypedDict):
@@ -94,6 +95,17 @@ def get_candidates(
     installed via pyenv are also included in the results.
     """
 
+    for candidate in _get_candidates():
+        if ".pyenv/shims" in candidate["path"].replace("\\", "/"):
+            candidate["shim"] = True
+        yield candidate
+
+
+def _get_candidates(
+    path_list: Sequence[str | Path] | None = None, check_pyenv: bool = True
+) -> Iterator[InterpreterCandidate]:
+    """Internal. Implementation of `get_candidates()` without Pyenv shim detection."""
+
     if path_list is None:
         path_list = os.environ["PATH"].split(os.pathsep)
 
@@ -178,7 +190,9 @@ def get_python_interpreter_version(python_bin: str) -> str:
 
 
 def evaluate_candidates(
-    candidates: Iterable[InterpreterCandidate], cache: InterpreterVersionCache | None = None
+    candidates: Iterable[InterpreterCandidate],
+    cache: InterpreterVersionCache | None = None,
+    ignore_shims: bool = True,
 ) -> list[Interpreter]:
     """
     Evaluates Python interpreter candidates and returns the deduplicated list of interpreters that were found.
@@ -188,6 +202,9 @@ def evaluate_candidates(
     visited: set[Path] = set()
 
     for choice in candidates:
+        if ignore_shims and choice.get("shim"):
+            continue
+
         try:
             path = Path(choice["path"]).resolve()
         except FileNotFoundError:
@@ -198,14 +215,14 @@ def evaluate_candidates(
             continue
         visited.add(path)
 
-        version = cache.get_version(path) if cache else None
+        version = cache.get_version(path) if cache and not choice.get("shim") else None
         if version is None:
             try:
                 version = get_python_interpreter_version(str(path))
             except (subprocess.CalledProcessError, RuntimeError, FileNotFoundError):
                 logger.debug("Failed to get version for Python interpreter %s", path, exc_info=True)
                 continue
-            if cache:
+            if cache and not choice.get("shim"):
                 cache.set_version(path, version)
 
         interpreter: Interpreter = {"path": str(path), "version": version}