Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 2.7.0. The most significant changes since 2.6.0 are API deprecations.

Changes and deprecations since 2.6.0:

• The prefix DSL for bottles is deprecated. It was not actually used by the code.
• deprecate! and disable! in formulae with missing or non-ISO 8601 dates is deprecated.
• depends_on :java, :x11, :osxfuse, :tuntap are all deprecated in formulae and casks.
• Additional API deprecations, disables and removals.
• GitHub basic authentication support is removed.
• brew update refuses to update shallow homebrew-core/cask clones (on request from GitHub).
• The HOMEBREW_CLEANUP_PERIODIC_FULL_DAYS environment variable allows customisation of how often a full brew cleanup is run.
• Installing formulae missing bottles from the homebrew-core or linuxbrew-core requires specifying --build-from-source.
• brew livecheck now supports casks.

Finally:

• Discourse and IRC are now deprecated as official communication methods in favour of GitHub Discussions. It will be made read-only on January 1st 2021.
• 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!