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).

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...

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

The GUI is pretty sharp, but I don’t like it uses emoji instead of SF symbols.

Is it Claude or Codex built?

Farewell, Homebrew. It's been a good run.

- 2019 Intel iMac user.

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"

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 !

I've been using homebrew for so long, I can't tell you how much it has helped me to spend more hours developing and less managing packages and updates, etc. Thank you so much, congratulations on the update!

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.

I prefer to use Mise for everything nowadays. homebrew bootstrap specifically. A lot easier to manage all of my packages in one single file, homebrew, Node packages, etc.

https://mise.jdx.dev/bootstrap/packages/brew.html

Does installation still require root and a dedicated user account on Linux?

That really put me off.

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

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?

the gui homebrew manager is a nice addition!

it can be installed with:

brew install homebrew-app

Excellent update, very speedy on upgrades now. Amazing what a little (safe) concurrency will do.

Homebrew.app, however, has a show-stopper for me. "Failed to decode Homebrew JSON output" on the installed/upgrades panel. I'm guessing the Discover panel would normally indicate which Formulae/Casks are already installed, but because it couldn't parse the JSON output, that feature (if it exists) doesn't work.

I'll file an issue—I know HN isn't your bug tracker :)

Edit: there's an issue there already, and I sorted out the root cause: iTerm2's shell integration. If you're using zsh as your shell, the solution is here [^0] in the second comment.

[0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/BrewUI/issues/167/

I’ve really been enjoying nix as my package manager on macos. It’s on a separate volume so feels even more isolated from clobbering my macos and has, in my uninformed opinion, better sandboxing and reproducible builds

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?

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.

I am quite disappointed by their decision to remove wine[1] from brew. The utility of it is obvious, and it's very popular software.

[1] https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/wine-stable

Congrats on the release @mikemcquaid. I like how the trusted taps feature could be opted into early. It made it easier to migrate my setup before it became compulsory. Hope big changes like that can keep the same flow. Keep up the great work!

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

Fantastic, thx for the effort!

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

I guess the Hackintosh era is (finally) facing its death...

Tried the app. Just gives me the error message "Failed to decode Homebrew JSON output".

   ]brew -v 
   Homebrew 7.0.1

A new era of native macOS apps is upon us.

GUIs abound. Rejoice!

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

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

still needs fucking 'sudo'

does it self-uninstall cleanly (i.e. without leaving a footprint behind) yet? if not I don’t care about this or the next ‘upgrade’, and I can’t believe Homebrew project leaders push upgrades without addressing this basic flaw.

These release notes appear generated by LLM, with the usual extreme verbosity. Wish a human had done a better job editing these.