Homebrew 7.0.0

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Homebrew 7.0.0

mikemcquaid

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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).
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.
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
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...
pietz
Thanks for the hard work, but the Tahoe limitation for the GUI app is absolutely ridiculous.
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?
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.
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?
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.
internet2000
The GUI is pretty sharp, but I don’t like it uses emoji instead of SF symbols.Is it Claude or Codex built?
AbuAssar
the gui homebrew manager is a nice addition!it can be installed with:brew install homebrew-app
roger_
Does installation still require root and a dedicated user account on Linux?That really put me off.
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 !
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
touwer
Fantastic, thx for the effort!
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.
gdevenyi
Does it still need root on Linux? That makes it an instant no go.
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!
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