Jekyll2017-01-15T13:14:12+00:00http://brew.sh//The missing package manager for macOS.2016-11-07T00:00:00+00:002016-11-07T00:00:00+00:00http://brew.sh/2016/11/07/homebrew-1.1.0<p>Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 1.1.0. We’ve had a great response to Homebrew 1.0.0 and been iterating on our work there. That 1.1.0 follows 1.0.9 is a happy coincidence due to breaking changes; in the future we may have a e.g. 1.1.10.</p> <p>1.1.0 contains some breaking changes:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/1451">Disable SHA-1 checksum support in formulae</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/1452">Disable running Homebrew as the <code class="highlighter-rouge">root</code> user (e.g. <code class="highlighter-rouge">sudo brew</code>)</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/1446">Bottles with <code class="highlighter-rouge">_or_later</code> tags no longer use <code class="highlighter-rouge">_or_later</code> in their filenames so the existing bottle can be reused</a></li> </ul> <p>Some of the changes since 1.0.0 I’d like to highlight are the following:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/1121">A branch named <code class="highlighter-rouge">stable</code> (rather than <code class="highlighter-rouge">master</code>) is used for following Homebrew/brew tags</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/homebrew/homebrew-test-bot"><code class="highlighter-rouge">brew test-bot</code> has moved to its own tap</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/1004"><code class="highlighter-rouge">brew info</code> now also lists <code class="highlighter-rouge">Requirements</code> (e.g. <code class="highlighter-rouge">depends_on :foo</code>) as well as dependencies</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/1128">Rubocop configured so Rubocop-supporting editors get the correct messaging for editing files in Homebrew/brew and <code class="highlighter-rouge">Library/Taps</code></a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/1205">External <code class="highlighter-rouge">brew</code> commands can now use <code class="highlighter-rouge">#:</code> comments to automatically have rich <code class="highlighter-rouge">--help</code> output</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/1214">The <code class="highlighter-rouge">brew.1</code> manpage points to official external commands (<code class="highlighter-rouge">brew bundle</code>, <code class="highlighter-rouge">brew cask</code>, <code class="highlighter-rouge">brew services</code>)</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/1279">OS X Mavericks (10.9) and above now use BSD tar’s libarchive LZMA support rather than needing to install <code class="highlighter-rouge">xz</code> </a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/1277">A <code class="highlighter-rouge">brew tap-new</code> command is available for creating a new tap with a <code class="highlighter-rouge">README</code> and preconfigured Travis CI file (<code class="highlighter-rouge">.travis.yml</code>)</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/1253">Bottle/binary package creation and extraction has been sped up</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/1380"><code class="highlighter-rouge">brew</code> output has been improved when <code class="highlighter-rouge">git</code> is not installed</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/1248">A new <code class="highlighter-rouge">brew cask reinstall</code> command was added</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/1308"><code class="highlighter-rouge">brew info</code> now lists required option builds in dependencies output</a></li> </ul> <p>Enjoy using Homebrew!</p>MikeMcQuaid

Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 1.1.0. We’ve had a great response to Homebrew 1.0.0 and been iterating on our work there. That 1.1.0 follows 1.0.9 is a happy coincidence due to breaking changes; in the future we may have a e.g. 1.1.10.

2016-09-21T00:00:00+00:002016-09-21T00:00:00+00:00http://brew.sh/2016/09/21/homebrew-1.0.0<p>Today I’m proud to announce Homebrew 1.0.0. In the seven years since Homebrew was created by <a href="https://github.com/mxcl">@mxcl</a> our community has grown to <a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/graphs/contributors">almost 6000 unique contributors</a>, a <a href="https://github.com/search?p=2&amp;q=homebrew-&amp;type=Repositories&amp;utf8=✓">wide-reaching third-party “tap” ecosystem</a> and <a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/tree/master/Formula">thousands of packages</a>.</p> <p>We’ve been working hard over the last year to make some major changes to Homebrew that we’ve been wanting for a long time. There have been some hiccups along the way but we now have a more stable base for using and developing Homebrew in the future.</p> <p>These include:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/2">Homebrew package management and formulae (package metadata) split into separate repositories</a></li> <li><a href="http://community.brew.sh">Homebrew Community site (using Discourse) for discussion</a></li> <li><a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2016/feb/22/homebrew-joins/">Homebrew joined the Software Freedom Conservancy</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/install/pull/60">Homebrew’s default repository installation location changed to <code class="highlighter-rouge">/usr/local/Homebrew</code> to keep your <code class="highlighter-rouge">/usr/local</code> cleaner</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/998">Homebrew/brew updates between release tags</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/pull/38361">Homebrew CI and homebrew/core use the macOS sandbox for build-time security</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/725">Homebrew Cask integrated into Homebrew/brew</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/pull/49848">Add new <code class="highlighter-rouge">brew bump-formula-pr</code> command to create new formula version pull requests</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/10">Add <code class="highlighter-rouge">brew --help</code> to <code class="highlighter-rouge">brew</code> subcommands</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/50">Homebrew auto-updates when needed</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/pull/49219"><code class="highlighter-rouge">brew update</code> sped up by only running <code class="highlighter-rouge">git fetch</code> if necessary</a></li> <li>Officially support <a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle"><code class="highlighter-rouge">brew bundle</code></a> (for <code class="highlighter-rouge">Brewfile</code>s and import/export) and <a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-services"><code class="highlighter-rouge">brew services</code></a> (for background services management).</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/168">Homebrew/brew passes tests on Linux and has generic backend for porting to other platforms in future</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/881">Provide access to developer commands and <code class="highlighter-rouge">brew update</code> workflow automatically</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/295">Use <code class="highlighter-rouge">curl</code> for all HTTP access for consistent proxy support</a></li> <li>Use <a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/ruby-macho">new Ruby Macho library</a> for reading and writing library macOS Mach O file locations.</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/404">Provide vendored, portable Ruby 2 binary for when system Ruby 2 is not available</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/584"><code class="highlighter-rouge">HEAD</code> package installations have versions and can be upgraded</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/344">Use Python virtualenvs to better handle Python dependencies</a></li> </ul> <p>And finally:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/96">Improves formula not found handling</a></li> </ul> <p>Thanks to all our users, contributors and maintainers past and present for getting us to this milestone. Enjoy using Homebrew!</p>MikeMcQuaid

Today I’m proud to announce Homebrew 1.0.0. In the seven years since Homebrew was created by @mxcl our community has grown to almost 6000 unique contributors, a wide-reaching third-party “tap” ecosystem and thousands of packages.