Homebrew

Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 2.4.0. The most significant changes since 2.3.0 are dropping macOS Mavericks support, the deprecation of devel versions and brew audit speedups.

Major changes and deprecations since 2.3.0:

• Homebrew’s minimum macOS version is Yosemite.
• devel versions in formulae have been deprecated.
• brew pull has been deprecated in favour of hub checkout.

Other changes since 2.3.0 I’d like to highlight are the following:

• brew audit is significantly faster.
• brew irb correctly uses TERMINFO to improve keyboard handling.
• Homebrew uses system Gems correctly.
• man brew lists the full help for all official external commands (which now includes brew test-bot).

Finally:

• Homebrew accepts donations through GitHub Sponsors and still accepts donations through Patreon. If you can afford it, please consider donating. If you’d rather not use GitHub Sponsors or Patreon (our preferred donation methods), check out the other ways to donate in our README.

Thanks to all our hard-working maintainers, contributors, sponsors and supporters for getting us this far. Enjoy using Homebrew!