MikeMcQuaidToday I’d like to announce Homebrew 3.1.0. The most significant change since 3.0.0 is the migration of our bottles (binary packages) to GitHub Packages.
Major changes and deprecations since 3.0.0:
- GitHub Packages is the default package download/upload location on macOS and Linux. This is due to Bintray’s shutdown on May 1st 2021.
- Various deprecated, disabled and deleted code.
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The undocumented
HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_FILTERINGflag is deprecated and will be removed. - The
HOMEBREW_NO_BOTTLE_SOURCE_FALLBACKis removed (as its behaviour is now the default). - GitHub Packages writes bottles’ tabs into the GitHub Packages manifest JSON.
brew bottle --only-json-tabhas been added to allow future GitHub Packages bottles to store their tab outside the bottle to allow reproducible builds. This is why downloads from GitHub Packages also include a small manifest JSON download. This also allows future creation ofall: SHA256bottles for bottles shared across all platforms.
Other changes since 3.0.0 I’d like to highlight are the following:
- The
sedsuperenv shim is removed. - CodeCov in Homebrew’s GitHub Actions no longer requires a hardcoded token.
brew update --quietis a bit quieter.brew updateoutputs tostderrwhen not outputting to a TTY to easestdoutusage.brew updatereports outdated formulae and suggestsbrew upgrade.installed_on_requestis correctly set in the tab for dependencies again. This will improve usage ofbrew bundle dumpafter reinstalling packages.- Homebrew does not load non-Bundler gems to prevent issues from user-installed gems.
- Homebrew’s default
rubywarning level is now-W1(to avoid hiding legitimate warnings.) brew caskpkguninstallation is faster.brew --prefix <formula>is faster.brew --versionis faster.brew listalso useslsfor casks output (to be consistent with formulae).brew listvisually separates formulae and casks.brew bumpsupports casks.service dois a new formula DSL to allow plists to be easily generated.- Always require developer tools on Apple Silicon (because
codesignis needed when pouring bottles). - When
codesignfails more error output is now printed. gem,rakeandrubysuperenv shims are provided to work around broken macOSrubys.- A better error message is output when users don’t have any GitHub API credentials set.
Finally:
- Homebrew’s Annual General Meeting in February elected a new Project Leadership Committee, Technical Steering Committee, and I (Mike McQuaid) was re-elected as Project Leader
- 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. Particular thanks on Homebrew 3.1.0 go to GitHub for providing GitHub Packages and helping in our migration. Enjoy using Homebrew!
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