Homebrew @MacHomebrew

Package manager for macOS (or Linux). Rude @mentions are blocked here and on GitHub (which means you can't file issues). Mastodon: @[email protected] brew.sh Joined September 2009

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Oscar Franco @ospfranco

a month ago

Brew now supports concurrent downloads and it's beautiful HOMEBREW_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY=auto to your .zshrc

Mike McQuaid @MikeMcQuaid

a month ago

Brew now supports concurrent downloads and it's beautiful HOMEBREW_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY=auto to your .zshrc https://t.co/3d52IgcDzs

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🍺 Homebrew 4.6.0 is out! Opt-in concurrent downloads (`HOMEBREW_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY`), early macOS 26 (Tahoe) support, a built-in `brew mcp-server` and lots of other fixes. Run `brew update` to get it. Full details at: brew.sh/2025/08/05/hom…

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Mike McQuaid @MikeMcQuaid

3 months ago

I just released @MacHomebrew 4.5.5. Normally patch releases aren't particularly notable but this one includes an MCP server for Homebrew (`brew mcp-server`): github.com/Homebrew/brew/… Let me know any thoughts or feedback!

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Mike McQuaid @MikeMcQuaid

4 months ago

Read the release notes at brew.sh/2025/04/29/hom… and discuss on Hacker News at news.ycombinator.com/item?id=438301…

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Mike McQuaid @MikeMcQuaid

4 months ago

Proud to release @MacHomebrew 4.5.0 today. The most significant changes since 4.4.0 are major improvements to brew bundle/services, preliminary Linux support for casks, official Support Tiers, Tier 2 ARM64 Linux support, Ruby 3.4 and several deprecations.

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Homebrew @MacHomebrew

10 months ago

Homebrew is pleased to congratulate @Workbrew_ on their 1.0 launch today. We understand that the community will, rightly, have questions. You’ll find some answers in the linked post. Homebrew itself is and will always remain OSS. brew.sh/2024/11/19/hom…

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Mike McQuaid @MikeMcQuaid

11 months ago

Discuss this on Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=417080…

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Mike McQuaid @MikeMcQuaid

11 months ago

Today, I’m proud to announce to announce @MacHomebrew 4.4.0. The most significant changes since 4.3.0 are official macOS Sequoia (15) support, INSTALL_RECEIPT.jsonfiles for casks, macOS Monterey (12) deprecation and various other deprecations. brew.sh/2024/10/01/hom…

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Mike McQuaid @MikeMcQuaid

a year ago

Nice write-up of an interview (link in replies) I did with @ChrisChinch talking about the history of @MacHomebrew and how and why I ended up cofounding @Workbrew_. Proudest part: > In short, if I meet a developer using a Mac, I can almost guarantee they’re using Homebrew.…

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Mike McQuaid @MikeMcQuaid

a year ago

Just finished this great conversation with Max Howell, creator of @MacHomebrew 🍺 to celebrate Homebrew's 15th birthday today! 🎂 Check it out on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=dY31NQ…

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Mike McQuaid @MikeMcQuaid

a year ago

Homebrew turns 15 years old tomorrow! (20th May 2024). Join me, Mike McQuaid, Homebrew Project Leader and CTO of @Workbrew_, and @mxcl, creator of @MacHomebrew and CEO of @pkgxdev, as we reminisce about Homebrew, package management, commercial open source, what we're doing now…

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Mike McQuaid @MikeMcQuaid

a year ago

Today, I’d like to announce Homebrew 4.3.0. The most significant changes since 4.2.0 are SBOM support, initial bottle attestation verification, new command analytics and uninstall autoremove by default. Read more at brew.sh/2024/05/14/hom… and discuss on Hacker News at…

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Mike McQuaid @MikeMcQuaid

2 years ago

Today I'm proud to announce the release of Homebrew 4.2.0. The major things this release are us finally getting off the ancient Ruby 2.6 onto shiny Ruby 3.1 and a bunch of nice other performance improvements. brew.sh/2023/12/18/hom…

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Trail of Bits @trailofbits

2 years ago

We’re adding cryptographically verifiable build provenance to @MacHomebrew, in partnership with @AlphaOmegaOSS and @openssf. This work will help secure the packages that millions of macOS and Linux developers depend on. buff.ly/46SzRtk

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Mike McQuaid @MikeMcQuaid

2 years ago

Homebrew 4.1.2 has been released. Normally we don't tell you about boring patch releases but this one is a bit special as it includes our new offline, signed, notarized Homebrew-4.1.2.pkg installer. Try it out and let us know what you think! github.com/Homebrew/brew/…

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Mike McQuaid @MikeMcQuaid

2 years ago

I'm delighted to announce Homebrew 4.1.0. The most significant changes are improvements to the >=4.0.0 JSON API, completion of the migration of analytics from GA in the US to InfluxDB in the EU and groundwork for later macOS Sonoma support. brew.sh/2023/07/20/hom…

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Mike McQuaid @MikeMcQuaid

2 years ago

Also: - existing data is now available in different forms on formulae.brew.sh/analytics/ Caveat: - we don't yet have 90 days of InfluxDB data so some of the older data is missing (but we wanted to complete this migration ASAP because: we said we would)

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Mike McQuaid @MikeMcQuaid

2 years ago

Homebrew users: we heard you. As-of Homebrew 4.0.23/2023-06-16: - we have migrated all analytics from Google Analytics to our EU InfluxDB instance - we have destroyed all existing GA data - no events are associated with individual users

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Mike McQuaid @MikeMcQuaid

3 years ago

Today I'm proud to announce the release of Homebrew 4.0.0. The most significant change since 3.6.0 enables significantly faster Homebrew-maintained tap updates by migrating from Git-cloned taps to JSON downloads. brew.sh/2023/02/16/hom…

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Homebrew @MacHomebrew

3 years ago

We’ve been getting some questions about Max Howell’s (creator of Homebrew’s) new Tea project. Homebrew’s leadership or maintainers were not aware of this project until the announcement post. Homebrew and Tea are run, built, lead and funded separately to solve different problems.