Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 2.5.0. The most significant changes since 2.4.0 are better brew cask integration, license support and API deprecations.

Major changes and deprecations since 2.4.0:

• Many brew cask commands have been replaced with brew commands and are deprecated. This continues our goal of better integration between brew and brew cask commands.
• Most Homebrew/homebrew-core formulae have their licenses stored and audited.
• brew typecheck provides the beginnings of Homebrew’s use of Sorbet for type-checking.
• Homebrew is currently experimenting with GitHub Discussions as a possible replacement for Discourse.
• brew livecheck has moved from its own tap to a Homebrew command and part of Homebrew/homebrew-core formulae.
• brew bump is a new command using brew livecheck and Repology to output outdated formulae in Homebrew/homebrew-core.
• Homebrew on Linux is moving towards a pure-Ruby ELF reading and writing implementation.
• Various other Homebrew (mostly internal) APIs have been deprecated

Other changes since 2.4.0 I’d like to highlight are the following:

• brew sh has a non-interactive mode.
• Disabled and deprecated formulae require a reason (to better explain to users).
• brew bump-revision accepts multiple formulae.
• brew cask --help output is supported for all brew cask commands.
• brew audit now has a --tap argument.
• brew tap-new makes use of Homebrew’s custom GitHub Actions (which are also used by Homebrew CI).
• brew audit is passing and mandatory for all changes on Homebrew/homebrew-core.
• brew update-python-resources is a new command that can be used to upgrade dependencies in Python formulae.
• brew tests retries failed tests by default.
• brew bundle runs brew update before if needed.
• Many brew audit checks were migrated to RuboCop checks for better performance and editor integration.
• Homebrew is working on support for macOS Big Sur (11.0).

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. Enjoy using Homebrew!