Homebrew for Mac
Manage the installation process of other open source software.
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Homebrew overview
Homebrew is a command line utility designed to streamline the installation of various libraries and utilities that you might need to run certain applications, but have not been included in your macOS installation by default.
The both application provides you with access to a large collection of packages which you can browse using the command line, or by making use of online resources such as the Braumeister website.
Effortless to install macOS package manager that runs in the Terminal
To deploy Homebrew on your Mac, you can manually download the source code archive and install wherever you like, or you can run the command provided by the development team in Terminal window (will place Homebrew in the /usr/local folder):
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
What’s new in version 4.3.9
- Load tap migration renames from api by @apainintheneck in #17599
- ci: improve Dockerfile to make proper use of build cache by @marcosnils in #17584
- Use effective_arch for rustflags by @git-mann in #17597
- Use API for description searches by @rrotter in #17582
- Load tap migration renames from API with short names by @apainintheneck in #17607
- cask/audit: handle on_os range bounded by depends_on by @EricFromCanada in #17608
- Remove broken opavote links by @Rylan12 in #17613
- rubocops/class: allow disabled formulae to be without a test block by @bayandin in #17614
- sorbet: Migrate dev-cmd files from typed: true to typed: strict by @issyl0 in #17606
- extract: Log formula version by @Kentzo in #17622
- dev-cmd/typecheck: Stop dry running Spoom sigil bumps by @issyl0 in #17621
- sorbet: Tighten up dev-cmd types by @issyl0 in #17625
- clear description cache if updated w/o EVAL_ALL by @rrotter in #17602
- dev-cmd/bump-formula-pr: formula_version should return Version not String by @issyl0 in #17628
- Use cached json API file for formulae and cask specified paths by @Rylan12 in #17615
- livecheck: expand typed: strict usage by @samford in #17632
- Improve "unknown command" error by @MikeMcQuaid in #17634
- extract: Fix missing '--git-revision' in the usage banner by @Kentzo in #17638
Homebrew for Mac
Free
In English
Version 4.3.9
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Jan 8 2024
Version: 4.2.2
v4.2.3 is out. Release notes are HERE: https://newreleases.io/project/github/Homebrew/brew/release/4.2.3
Dec 19 2023
Version: 4.1.25
v4.2 is out, with much fanfare: "--> Major changes and deprecations since 4.1.0:
• Homebrew now uses and requires Ruby 3.1. If you do not already have a version provided by your system: we provide Portable Ruby 3.1.4 that will be installed whenever needed on Linux x86_64 and macOS Apple Silicon and Intel. This marks the end of Homebrew using the macOS system Ruby. Pour one out for our old friend /usr/bin/ruby on macOS 🍻.
• Formula installation and upgrades are less likely to require dependencies to be upgraded. This should reduce “brew upgrade foo upgraded everything on my system” problems.
• Homebrew/homebrew-core and Homebrew/homebrew-cask now store formulae/casks in “sharded” subdirectories for improved git and GitHub performance.
Homebrew can be configured with .env files.
• Homebrew supports macOS Sonoma.
• OS::Mac and MacOS usage in formulae on Linux is deprecated. Please guard all uses in formulae with if OS.mac? or if OS.linux? as appropriate.
• brew audit --new-formula and --new-cask options are deprecated. Please use brew audit --new instead.
• brew postgresql-upgrade-database is deprecated. It is not longer needed now that we use versioned postgresql formulae. Please use pg_upgrade directly instead.
• Casks can be, like formulae, deprecated and disabled. Relatedly, the use of discontinued? in casks is deprecated.
• Various other deprecations.
- - Other changes since 4.1.0 I’d like to highlight are the following:
• Homebrew detects Apple Silicon M3 processors.
• The macOS .pkg installer is signed (by me!).
• Casks support setting multiple download headers
• brew list --full-names properly output Homebrew organisation names for casks.
• Homebrew uses Sorbet for runtime error checking.
• Homebrew is importing parts of ActiveSupport to speed up command execution time.
• Homebrew supports the rc shell.
• Various sharding fixes
• Downloads from the Homebrew API better support if curl or system certificates are too old.
• brew deps no longer passes options to formulae.
• brew desc has improved handling of--eval-all with formulae.
• brew install will upgrade already installed casks (to be consistent with formulae.)
• brew pin‘d formulae don’t cause as many warnings or errors.
• brew setup-ruby is a new command to just install Homebrew’s Ruby, if needed.
• brew edit will suggest tapping core repositories if untapped.
• The macOS .pkg installer is a documented installation method.
• Formula support ENV.O3 again to allow passing -O3 compiler optimisations.
• brew install sets PIP_CACHE_DIR to cache more Python files when building bottles or from source.
• brew audit checks all relicensed HashiCorp formulae.
• sshpass has (finally?) been removed from the new formula deny list.
• Formula’s service blocks now support multiple sockets.
• bootsnap is used more often, speeding up repeated brew invocations.
• XDG_CACHE_HOME is used correctly again for logs and Homebrew’s cache on Linux."
Oct 10 2023
Version: 4.1.14
Since version 4.1.2, .pkg installer is available.
https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/releases
