Homebrew

Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 3.4.0. The most significant changes since 3.3.0 are HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS to hide configuration suggestions, brew services supported on systemd on Linux, brew install --overwrite and Homebrew beginning the process to leave the SFC.

Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 3.3.0. The most significant changes since 3.2.0 are the migration from Homebrew/linuxbrew-core to Homebrew/homebrew-core for all Homebrew on Linux users, the official support of macOS Monterey (and, as usual, dropping the support for Mojave due to us only supporting 3 macOS versions) and the addition of an opt-in HOMEBREW_INSTALL_FROM_API flag to avoid needing to have Homebrew/homebrew-core or Homebrew/homebrew-cask repositories tapped/cloned locally.

Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 3.2.0. The most significant changes since 3.1.0 are brew install now upgrades outdated formulae by default and basic macOS 12 (Monterey) support.

On 18th April 2021, a security researcher identified a vulnerability in our review-cask-pr GitHub Action used on the homebrew-cask and all homebrew-cask-* taps (non-default repositories) in the Homebrew organization and reported it on our HackerOne.

Today 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.

Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 3.0.0. The most significant changes since 2.7.0 are official Apple Silicon support and a new bottle format in formulae.

Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 2.7.0. The most significant changes since 2.6.0 are API deprecations.

Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 2.6.0. The most significant changes since 2.5.0 are macOS Big Sur support on Intel, brew commands replacing all brew cask commands, the beginnings of macOS M1/Apple Silicon/ARM support and API deprecations.

Since the Homebrew 2.5.2 release, you can upload bottles (binary packages) to GitHub Releases, in addition to the previous standard - Bintray. Support was added to Homebrew/brew in this PR on 2020-09-15, and a companion PR to Homebrew/homebrew-test-bot added support for setting the base download URL of bottles to point to a specific release on GitHub.

Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 2.5.0. The most significant changes since 2.4.0 are better brew cask integration, license support and API deprecations.

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.

Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 2.3.0. The most significant changes since 2.2.0 are GitHub Actions CI usage, fetching resources before installation, Docker image improvements and the deprecation of brew install from URLs.

Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 2.2.0. The most significant changes since 2.1.0 are macOS Catalina support, performance increases and better Homebrew on Linux ecosystem integration.

In February 2019 we had our first Homebrew maintainer in-person meeting at and around the FOSDEM 2019 conference in Brussels. Maintainers travelled from as far as India and Canada in order to get face-time with each other and have high-bandwidth conversations.

Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 2.1.0. The most significant changes since 2.0.0 are casks on https://formulae.brew.sh, search on Homebrew sites and better Docker support.