Homebrew 7.0.0

mikemcquaid

Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 7.0.0. The most significant changes since 6.0.0 are faster installations and upgrades, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, built-in vulnerability checks and an advisory database, the end of macOS 10.15 support and Intel Macs moving to Tier 3 (announced last year).

touwer

Fantastic, thx for the effort!

roger_

Does installation still require root and a dedicated user account on Linux? That really put me off.

yard2010

Thank you so much for doing this, for years you make me feel like home, or the year 2010. Please don't ever stop!

basedpolymer

And that's the end of Homebrew for me as a user. I like the app, but my old Intel MacBook apparently can't handle it anymore. I'm back to the old installation methods !

asadhaider

Awesome, I just checked and had already upgraded at some point. I run the alias command below every now and then which keeps everything up to date. alias u="brew update && brew upgrade --greedy -y && brew upgrade --cask -y && brew cleanup"

aydgn

Farewell, Homebrew. It's been a good run. - 2019 Intel iMac user.

AbuAssar

the gui homebrew manager is a nice addition! it can be installed with: brew install homebrew-app

max979

Time to `brew update && brew upgrade` later today. Always a little nervous, but Homebrew usually makes it painless.

lrvick

Just remember that brew still must never be installed on a machine you need to be able to trust. The supply chain security policy of brew is basically non existent and optimized for low-friction contributions. Think wikipedia. No enforced commit signing, review signing, or multi-party release signing, and thus everything is honor system. Do not put brew anywhere near systems that access production or even on systems used to review production-bound code.

Sytten

I found that Mise handles all my needs for development and it is scoped so it doesn't try to update Python and break all my virtual env when I install something new /shrug

gdevenyi

Does it still need root on Linux? That makes it an instant no go.

internet2000

The GUI is pretty sharp, but I don’t like it uses emoji instead of SF symbols. Is it Claude or Codex built?

blixt

I was surprised to see my Homebrew consider my macOS a Tier 2 for using the very latest macOS version and Xcode version… But I think it's because I don't have Xcode 27.0, which is presumably releasing tomorrow?

simonw

TIL Homebrew has its own sandbox mechanism - looks like it's built around their own sandbox-exec wrapper, at least on macOS: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/d79ef822ab8136e393ed5f...

monocularvision

Not usually a “+1” or “Me too!” kinda guy but homebrew is incredible and makes dev on Mac quite seamless. Huge thanks to the team.

12345hn6789

Unfortunately this project has a case of dread with every update to me. To see what is being force changed, worse support or even removed features. Looks like this release breaks Intel Macs. Very very sad. Not even 5+ year old hardware is apparently supportable to some devs

throw0101a

As a MacPorts users (generally light-weight, just a few things here and there): Has anyone gone from MP to HB, or vice versa? Why did you switch from one to the other (and perhaps back again)? What did you find as the pros/cons of each?

pietz

Thanks for the hard work, but the Tahoe limitation for the GUI app is absolutely ridiculous.

jjice

Always a joy to see security and performance as a big highlight on a release. Brew is notably slow compared to the other package managers I use, but never in an unbearable way. I've always used it on my Mac work machines, but always used my native package managers on Linux. What are the reasons to run homebrew on Linux? Better newer package support when you're on something slower moving like a Debian distro? I've standardized my config scripts on using language managers for those tools (go, cargo, uv), which isn't perfect, so maybe brew is worth a chance.