Homebrew

Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 3.3.0. The most significant changes since 3.2.0 are the migration from Homebrew/linuxbrew-core to Homebrew/homebrew-core for all Homebrew on Linux users, the official support of macOS Monterey (and, as usual, dropping the support for Mojave due to us only supporting 3 macOS versions) and the addition of an opt-in HOMEBREW_INSTALL_FROM_API flag to avoid needing to have Homebrew/homebrew-core or Homebrew/homebrew-cask repositories tapped/cloned locally.

Major changes and deprecations since 3.2.0:

• brew update will migrate all Linux users from linuxbrew-core to homebrew-core. This will also trigger the upgrade of some formulae installed from linuxbrew-core due to revision differences.
• macOS Monterey is officially supported and requires Xcode 13.1. Monterey ships with Ruby 2.6.8 so we’ve released and use Portable Ruby 2.6.8.
• HOMEBREW_INSTALL_FROM_API is a new opt-in flag to install formulae and casks in homebrew/core and homebrew/cask taps using Homebrew’s API instead of needing the (large, slow) local checkouts of these repositories.
• brew bump-formula-pr --write has been deprecated in favour of brew bump-formula-pr --write-only.
• The Internet Archive uploader was broken and no-one noticed so it has been removed.
• Various additional deprecations, disables and code removals.

Other changes since 3.2.0 I’d like to highlight are the following:

• HOMEBREW_SSH_CONFIG_PATH sets the path a configuration file for using Git over SSH inside Homebrew.
• brew edit --print-path outputs the filename to be edited without opening an editor.
• brew developer makes it easier to enable/disable the Homebrew developer release channel.
• Artifactory and other private registries can be used for mirroring Homebrew bottles distributed through GitHub Packages.
• BuildPulse is used to detect and track Homebrew’s flaky tests.
• brew search does approximate matching of formula names.
• Homebrew’s ca-certificates will be installed when necessary on macOS <= 10.15.5 to allow connecting to various HTTPS sites.
• brew bump --start-with retrieves a subset of results.
• brew search can search Arch Linux and Repology.
• HOMEBREW_ADDITIONAL_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID can be used to report to an additional Google Analytics tracking ID.
• brew fetch --bottle-tag allows fetching a bottle for any specified tag (e.g. OS/architecture/macOS version).
• brew install and brew upgrade will fetch all formulae before attempting installation.
• brew install outputs all cask installations at the end (like formulae).
• brew will start the sandbox in a pseudoterminal (to avoid potential formula access to the parent terminal).
• brew style will check and fix more shell script style.
• brew tap --custom-remote allows changing the remote for an installed tap.
• brew typecheck can be run on Apple Silicon.
• Temurin will be recommended instead of the (deprecated) AdoptOpenJDK when installing casks that need Java.

Finally:

• Homebrew accepts donations through GitHub Sponsors and still accepts donations through Patreon. If you can afford it, please consider donating. If you’d rather not use GitHub Sponsors or Patreon (our preferred donation methods), check out the other ways to donate in our README.

Thanks to all our hard-working maintainers, contributors, sponsors and supporters for getting us this far.

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