Also, if you read to the end you get to see me in a stupid beer outfit the other maintainers made me wear.
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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.
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I've been using HOMEBREW_INSTALL_FROM_API for months and it's honestly a game changer! 🔥 All installs with this method are *much* faster and I hadn't noticed any downsides. twitter.com/MikeMcQuaid/st
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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.
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Homebrew is joining Google Summer of Code again this year! If you're interested in joining as a contributor, you can learn more at our GSoC repository on GitHub:
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Are you a user or contributor? We've got three interesting talks lined up: A deep dive by , Caleb Xu talks about how Homebrew keeps up with 10000+ packages and on improved Linux support for Homebrew!
pretalx.com/packagingcon-2
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Homebrew found really useful. It finds and tracks our flaky tests so we can fix (or delete) them to improve the reliability of our test suite. It even notifies us in Slack:
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#Homebrew is a great tool for macOS, but people who don't have a lot of experience with packet managers often struggle using it. So I wrote a beginner-level introduction that covers all the basics. Check it out and share it! #macOS
mouselike.de/introduction-t
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A security researcher identified a vulnerability in the homebrew-cask* repositories' GitHub Actions.
A cask was compromised with a harmless change in a demonstration PR until it was reverted. No user action is required.
For more details read:
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`brew install gcc` will now install gcc-10 on Linux, which is the same behaviour as on macOS (it previously installed gcc-5 on Linux). If you need gcc 5, you can `brew install gcc@5`.
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👋🏻 from the Homebrew 2021 AGM. We wish were at but Zoom will have to do. Stay safe and take care everyone! ❤️
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It’s here! 🎉 An awesome podcast episode featuring none other than !
We talk of Mike’s experience as project lead & how #opensource maintainers help themselves setting clear expectations; work as a team; using bots & thinking ahead to the future
Check it out here 📢
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Homebrew 2.7.4 is out! This is a minor bugfix which was released ahead of schedule to resolve an issue several users were experiencing with upgrading certain packages.
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Homebrew taps (3rd-party repositories) now support a GitHub Actions-based workflow hosting their bottles (binary packages) on GitHub Releases (rather than Bintray).
This should make it significantly easier to distribute macOS and/or Linux bottles.
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it’s not a coincidence that dynamic binary translation and dialectical behavior therapy share an acronym
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New blog post, where I talk about my experience with continuous integration, and how used Actions to automate building binary packages (bottles) for Linux users, making life easier for both maintainers and users.
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Homebrew will remove the python@2 formula on Monday 10 February. If you need python@2 after this date please use `brew extract` to maintain it in your personal tap.
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Python 3: install: 504,980 / install-on-request: 249,969
Python@2: install: 75,761 / install-on-request: 34,027
(Install count on mac over the last 30 days)
pythonclock.org
The pull request for the Python@2 deletion has been opened!
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There were a number of CVE's fixed in the latest version of git: github.com/git/git/blob/v If you haven't updated to the latest version, you should do so now. choco upgrade git and brew upgrade git
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MongoDB maintains their custom Homebrew tap, for installation, questions and support, see
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PSA: we are removing MongoDB from 's core formulas. MongoDB was migrated to a non open-source license, and the older version we had been shipping for some time does not build anymore. Check this link below for more details: github.com/Homebrew/homeb
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Linux bottles ( / @Linuxbrew) are now built on . Thank you to all the maintainers and developers who helped setting this up!
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We've posted about the Homebrew Maintainer Meeting in February. If you're interested why we met up, what we did and how much it cost: this is for you:
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Homebrew will be just fine without system ruby. Minor re-write of our installer, in order, but we have a "portable ruby" that we can use in a pinch! Also, please don't fret over /usr/local. Mahalo. 🌈🍻
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I’ve seen people express concern that Apple’s Ruby announcement will affect Homebrew. Don’t worry - we’ve been shipping our own Ruby where needed for a few years now. We’re in a good position to adapt, and we’ll be ready long before the change actually happens.
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Homebrew has had more unique contributions than any open source project ever. Thank you to everybody for every contribution, no matter the size. Special thanks to those that stepped up to be maintainers; a thankless task, a task that often came with abuse; they made brew possible
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Happy birthday, Homebrew! 10 years ago today I pushed your first commit. Standing on the shoulders of giants, you were everybody’s ideas, both old and new. You’ve stood the test of time, a staple of toolboxes everywhere. An easy reach. A trusted tool.
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Have opinions on how should handle the Python 2 EOL in 2020? Join the conversation in here: discourse.brew.sh/t/python-2-eol
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We’re considering moving to for Homebrew formulae and @HomebrewCasks that require Java. See GitHub pull request github.com/Homebrew/brew/ for details.
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With the latest PR, we now have licensing information available via `brew license` for 20% of all formulae! Check it out and/or contribute licensing information at
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users, please contribute changelog links here buff.ly/2TTqNyJ and help get this feature buff.ly/2SErz6n to easily view release notes across all your updated software into formulas and @homebrewcask.
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FYI: Homebrew has updated to the latest version of Docker in order to patch the runc security vulnerability.
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Here’s an excellent question asked by Homebrew user : How can you be sure you’re not going to catch a compromised formula or bottle, contributed by a malicious actor? A thread on ’s security.
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For bottled @MacHomebrew formulas, how is it ensured that there aren't malicious code in the user generated submissions, notwithstanding SHA digest. @MikeMcQuaid
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A community effort is ongoing to crowdsource adding license metadata to all Homebrew/core formulae: github.com/zachwick/homeb
Consider helping out with this great project!
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Note that VirusTotal does flag the nozlib version as malicious; however, that’s almost certainly a false positive: the same VT alert comes up for the (known clean) go-pear.phar from GitHub, too.
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We have looked into the issue, and can confirm that Homebrew has always used the nozlib version, which according to , shows no indication of compromise. twitter.com/sapphirepaw_or
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