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19 releases since Jun 22, 2026, busiest day 2

Changelog

6.0.22

Latest
Added 1
  • Add Formula#python3 for the direct Python dependency
Changed 12
  • Use quarterly reports for role suggestions
  • Cask audit now rejects verified parameter on all casks
  • Target Intel Clang under Rosetta
  • Update cargo fetch example in formula documentation
  • Formula creator adds deny network to some modes
  • Formula creator adds deny network for Go and Rust
Fixed 7
  • Doctor removes grep_v(String) from JSON output
  • Bump avoids overwriting skip message with autobump
  • Vulnerabilities correct upstream fix boundaries and add reviewed overrides
  • Cask uninstall does not quit or signal the host process
  • Keg remove_oldname_opt_records avoids early return
  • Stop fetching bottle manifests when creating tabs
  • Fix shim exec loops and reap timed-out commands

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6.0.21

Added 1
  • Add `--fix` command for cask audit
Changed 12
  • Harden build prefix relocation of poured bottles
  • Use `-Wno-author` in `std_cmake_args` for formulas
  • Support upcoming mas 8.0.0 in bundle/mac_app_store
  • Relativise absolute symlinks into the prefix when bottling
  • Add padded bottle build prefixes
  • Enable shorter-prefix bottle relocation
Fixed 2
  • Handle absent cask bundle version suffixes
  • Never install downloads with checksum mismatches

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6.0.20

Added 3
  • Add brew tests --load-only and break the install require cycle
  • Add package manager caches and isolate them in CI
  • Add formula fetch phase run before install
Changed 11
  • Migrate analytics to brew.sh proxy
  • Run privileged cask install steps in the parent process
  • Drive bottle pours from relocation metadata
  • upgrade: print the fetch heading before prefetching
  • livecheck/livecheck: rename some params to formula_or_cask
  • rubocops/cask/url: require each keyword parameter on its own line
Fixed 6
  • generate-zap: resolve apps from package receipts
  • cc shim: compare by canonicalizing both sides, fixing issues with symlinked HOMEs
  • pathname/disk_usage_extension: fix double path traversal
  • bundle: fail Flatpak entries when flatpak is not installed
  • utils/curl: fix curl_version memoization
  • Fix undefined method 'all' for class Cask::Cask in deps command

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6.0.19

Added 2
  • Support wildcards in cask artifact uninstall quit/signal
  • Add relocatable bottles plan
Changed 10
  • Set oldest GCC to 8 to enable -ffile-prefix-map
  • Clarify outdated cask version display
  • Mirror per-file quarantine approval across cask upgrades
  • Preserve an unquarantined app's state across cask upgrades
  • Read vulnerability advisory index from formulae.brew.sh
  • Add lldb to tools provided by macOS in rubocops
Fixed 9
  • Resolve untapped core dependencies in audit
  • Skip duplicate /v2/ when artifact domain already contains it
  • Fix help crash with -- arguments in CLI parser
  • Skip linking symlinks that point to other kegs
  • Fix cask extract integrity
  • Skip running patchelf on bun binaries in keg_relocate

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6.0.18

Added 5
  • Build and publish large runner docker image
  • Add supported_platforms to cask API data
  • Add purl external references for sources using Vulns::Identify in sbom
  • Add --repology flag to advisory-match to load a local index
  • Record startup phases in brew prof --timings
Changed 9
  • Use cask dependencies for platform support
  • Merge multiple conflicts_with stanzas in cask
  • Normalize hyphenated HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS option names
  • Retry, then skip packages on transient GitHub API errors in bump
  • Drop legacy option names when deserializing cask config
  • Show upgraded dependencies during installation
Fixed 6
  • Avoid nil cask versions during installation
  • Fix role used to push to ECR
  • Report unavailable cask platforms accurately
  • Only mutate describe-cache when .git is user-owned in utils/git
  • Anchor sha256 check to string in cask/audit
  • Keep one failure from aborting a batch install

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6.0.17

Added 1
  • Report skipped dependent upgrades
Changed 2
  • build pkg:brew purls via Vulns::Purl in sbom
  • Allow cask runs to access the network

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6.0.16

Added 5
  • Detect incorrect app case in cask audits
  • Add autobump option to tap-new
  • Add --fix-available and --no-fix-available flags to vulns command
  • Add quiet mode for automatic updates
  • Bundle can install cargo packages from a git URL or path
Changed 15
  • Start install downloads before local-only checks
  • Print fetch heading to stderr when stdout is not a TTY in download_queue
  • Allow linux-only casks in cask audits
  • Ignore `target` when selecting artifact stanza in api/cask
  • Retry API downloads without --time-cond on curl receive errors
  • Pass the download queue to FormulaInstaller when upgrading
Fixed 5
  • Tolerate missing bottle manifests in prefetches
  • Fix random time in tap-new
  • Fix cask Linux installs without `os` stanza
  • Fix AppImage's stanza name in cask DSL
  • Fix handling for Linux in macos_requirement
Removed 1
  • Remove the `base64` gem

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6.0.15

Added 3
  • Add PHP configuration action
  • Add Python bootstrap action
  • Add per-service user environment variable overrides
Changed 11
  • Align deprecation of 22.04 image in workflows/docker
  • Align shared install step interfaces
  • Align install step autocorrections
  • Bridge cask flight step migrations
  • Replace PyCall with subprocess in formula-analytics
  • Define cask/config instance variables in a consistent order
Fixed 4
  • Fix errors reported by Vale 3.17.0 in documentation
  • Keep download progress within terminal width
  • Isolate formula and cask fetch errors in install
  • Fix the formula test helper block typing in sorbet

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6.0.14

Added 4
  • Add advisory matcher and dev-cmd/advisory-match for vulnerability analysis
  • Add glibc runtime action
  • Add Clang system config action
  • Add explicit dylib ID helpers
Changed 10
  • Speed up warm-cache API loads and path lookups
  • Remove most forks from no-op brew startup
  • Speed up style checks for homebrew/core and homebrew/cask
  • Avoid repeated coverage simulation
  • Reduce vendored gem dependencies
  • Preserve locale during brew startup
Fixed 3
  • Fix shellenv INFOPATH missing the default in fish
  • Fix GitHub release version detection
  • Fix Ruby 4 CGI flaky test
Removed 1
  • Remove leftover code for --no-quarantine

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6.0.13

Added 4
  • Add phase timings to `brew prof`
  • Add `appimage` to cask stanza order
  • Add Linux Landlock sandbox
  • Add stop_timeout to service DSL for graceful stop timeout
Changed 10
  • Don't print the `--force` hint when `brew bundle cleanup` prompts
  • Use --end-of-options for Git arguments
  • Normalise systemd service labels
  • Count squash-merge commits into the contributions count
  • `brew search --desc`: show casks without descriptions
  • List formulae from untrusted taps
Fixed 6
  • Skip unavailable xattrs in cask audits
  • Remove Caskroom symlinks broken by cask uninstall, and warn when they exist
  • Handle missing bottle mirror metadata
  • Cask migrator: do not copy a cask into itself through a rename alias
  • Handle cask mount failures and interrupts
  • Cask audit: fix nil crash in min_os check

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6.0.12

Added 1
  • Add JSON output method for doctor
Changed 16
  • Rename vulns advisory database repo to Homebrew/advisory-database
  • Bump vendored portable-ruby to 4.0.6
  • Map resolves information from API in formulary
  • Skip repeated checksum verification of the same file in downloadable
  • Enable cask FFI helpers for all users
  • Don't show upgrade size with --build-from-source flag
Fixed 3
  • Raise ArgumentError when get_make_var variable is missing
  • Stop silently ignoring bottle manifest download failures
  • Don't enable developer mode when copying xattrs in cask quarantine

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6.0.11

Added 2
  • Add brew vulns command
  • Accept --brewfile as an input source for brew deps command
Changed 7
  • Enable more cask metadata migration to JSON for all users
  • Skip rewriting Mach-O binaries when delete_rpath changes nothing
  • Use RubyMacho 6.0.0
  • Preserve cask container metadata
  • Show application of file and data patches
  • Start bottle downloads before dependency fetches
  • Prewarm Bootsnap caches after brew update
Fixed 4
  • Fix brew outdated --greedy crash on installed casks without a URL
  • Keep the current internal package API file on brew cleanup -s
  • Fall back to verbatim head URL for non-forge repos in vulns scanner
  • Merge into existing records instead of overwriting in vulns OSV export
Removed 1
  • Remove dead API methods and move generated_hash! to tests

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6.0.10

Added 6
  • Scrub internal package API cache files on `brew cleanup -s`
  • Support GitHub App JWTs in u/g/api.rb
  • Add install step keychain cleanup
  • Add Utils.parallel_map for performance improvements in tap-info and services list
  • Pre-stage cask downloads
  • Allow no-CLT cask installs
Changed 6
  • Speed up StemParser in version/parser
  • Skip incompatible cask upgrades
  • Make `Homebrew._system` private and move `quiet_system` off `Kernel`
  • Convert quarantine script to use FFI rather than Swift
  • Migrate more cask metadata to JSON for developers
  • Read all settings with one git invocation per repository
Fixed 8
  • Send bundle check failures to stderr
  • Avoid generated rmdir for shared file lists
  • Fix test setup crash when multiple package APIs are cached
  • Fix spurious test-bot missing `:all` bottle warning
  • Fix misleading HEAD upgrade summary
  • Skip unavailable sandbox sysctls
  • Fix autosquash behavior to default cherry_picked to false
  • Fix bundle/parallel_installer terminal output after interactive installs

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6.0.9

Added 3
  • Warn when all bottles are lost
  • Write cask receipts on upgrade
  • Add GCC 14 for compiler selection in Dockerfile
Changed 4
  • Defer reinstall keg backup and silence analytics curl output
  • Gather system configuration concurrently for approximately 31% faster performance
  • Use sudo user's tap trust
  • Avoid attempting same resource update in dev-cmd/bump-formula-pr
Fixed 5
  • Handle EUID/UID in install_steps like postinstall does
  • Don't lose the original exception when cask upgrade rollback itself fails
  • Don't crash cask upgrade when staged version directory is missing
  • Avoid filesystem checks from Pathname presence tests
  • Make the post-install quarantine release actually run during cask upgrade

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6.0.8

Added 2
  • Add source option to brew bundle uv tools
  • Add structured link install steps
Changed 2
  • Store bottle SBOM data in manifests
  • Clarify install output for durations and single deps
Fixed 1
  • Fix stale cask upgrade metadata

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6.0.7

Added 1
  • Add install step write cops
Changed 14
  • Set CC and CXX to unversioned gcc on Linux
  • Require curl dependencies to have a working HTTP mirror in audit
  • Force CMake to find shims before $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/bin
  • Set CC/CXX to real names for llvm_clang
  • Add CCACHE_FOUND=OFF to default CMake flags
  • Isolate the upgrade summary alignment spec from the formula API
Fixed 6
  • Fix type error in contributions
  • Fix bump with invalid arch
  • Fix infinite loop in array alphabetisation
  • Fix type error in cask/artifact/pkg
  • Avoid delegate for dylib_id in os/mac/mach
  • Error when bump-cask-pr update fails

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6.0.5

Added 1
  • Add `formula_opt_include` method to rubocop formula_path_methods
Changed 2
  • Use Process.spawn in system_command to avoid fork-unsafe exec3 child
  • Add prefix parameter and relative libdir support to formula `std_meson_args`
Fixed 2
  • Reject patch targets that escape the staged source tree
  • Expand deferred env in curl URLs

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6.0.4

Added 3
  • Add `bump-compatibility-version` command
  • Add `formula_opt_include` helper to utils/path
  • Add type and resolves DSL for annotating patches
Changed 6
  • Generate completions with style for default shells and auto corrections
  • Forward the `--quiet` flag to all `brew bundle` subcommands
  • Support path helpers in services
  • Filter info JSON package types
  • Align upgrade summary columns
  • Key Brewfile trust entries by custom tap remotes
Fixed 7
  • Rescue `MethodDeprecatedError` when attempting to load installed caskfiles
  • Rescue `MethodDeprecatedError` when loading from installed caskfile in installer
  • Fix HOMEBREW_FORBID_PACKAGES_FROM_PATHS bypasses
  • Fix core cask tap redirects
  • Warn about missing libraries in brew info
  • Bump-formula-pr: do not repeat release notes multiple times
  • Redact GitHub token in bump dry-run output
Removed 1
  • Remove dead Formula methods
Security 2
  • Disable tap Git credential prompts
  • Reject inline cask definitions passed to the MCP server

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6.0.3

Added 7
  • Allow tap trust in build sandbox
  • Add livecheck compressed option
  • Add install step config writes
  • Support tap trust in Brewfiles
  • Support splitting cask versions by arch
  • Add list command --no-installed-on-request switch
  • Add patch directory for local patch
Changed 7
  • Annotate upgradable dependencies in install plans
  • Don't bold upgradable dependencies in install plans
  • Preserve tap remotes in bundle dumps
  • Follow symlinked trust stores
  • Read user Git config for private downloads
  • Respect auto-update cask opt-out
  • Allow sometimes skipping the sandbox inside nested sandboxes
Fixed 6
  • Services command checks --sudo-service-user exists
  • Formula installer skips conflicts if not linking
  • Formula installer creates opt link even when skip_link
  • Fix brew bundle topological sort crash on missing dependency node
  • Fix caveats replacing order (HOMEBREW_PREFIX) in API formula reconstruction
  • Avoid duplicate upgrade warnings

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