Homebrew 5.0.0

Postedabout 2 months agoActiveabout 2 months ago

ingve

29 points

6 comments

brew.shTechstory

controversialmixed

Debate

60/100

HomebrewMacosApple

Key topics

Homebrew

Macos

Apple

The release of Homebrew 5.0.0 has sparked discussion around Apple's influence on package management and the future of Intel Mac support, with some users expressing disappointment and concern over certain changes.

Snapshot generated from the HN discussion

Discussion Activity

Light discussion

First comment

22m

Peak period

0-2h

Avg / period

Key moments

01Story posted
Nov 12, 2025 at 5:51 AM EST
about 2 months ago
Step 01
02First comment
Nov 12, 2025 at 6:13 AM EST
22m after posting
Step 02
03Peak activity
1 comments in 0-2h
Hottest window of the conversation
Step 03
04Latest activity
Nov 13, 2025 at 2:08 AM EST
about 2 months ago
Step 04

Generating AI Summary...

Analyzing up to 500 comments to identify key contributors and discussion patterns

Discussion (6 comments)

Showing 6 comments

mikemcquaid

about 2 months ago

1 reply

Homebrew Project Leader here. Happy to answer any questions.

monocularvision

about 2 months ago

1 reply

Is the internal API mentioned something that can be used for a private tap?

mikemcquaid

about 2 months ago

No(t yet). It's a slimmer version of the existing JSON API that's similarly only used by homebrew/core and homebrew/cask for now, mainly because they are so huge that using Git for this had very poor performance.

hrvstr

about 2 months ago

1 reply

I was planning to keep using my Intel Mac for a few more years, so this is a bit disappointing. The note about “macOS Intel x86_64 will move to Tier 3, dropping CI support, and no additional bottles will be built” sounds like Homebrew is basically ending active support soon. Does anyone know what the timescale is for deprecating macOS Intel entirely? It feels like devs are moving on from Intel Macs even faster than Apple itself. Maybe I’m misunderstanding what “Tier 3” actually means here, but if no bottles are built anymore, that’s going to make installs a lot less convenient.

Found a link, and tier 3 sounds brutal. Time to look for alternatives... :(

https://docs.brew.sh/Support-Tiers

mikemcquaid

about 2 months ago

Yes, active support dropped for macOS Intel September 26, won’t work at all on macOS Intel September 27.

We’d love to support everything indefinitely but lack the resources as a volunteer run open source project to do so, particularly when GitHub Actions and macOS itself will be stopping elements of their support for macOS Intel on similar timescales.

QwenGlazer9000

about 2 months ago

I find the removal of --no-quarantine deeply disappointing. We should be pushing back against the idea that the manufacturer should have ANY say at all in what we install on our own hardware, and yet their deprecation of the flag seems like capitulation to apple.

Why does apple get a free pass for doing this on a laptop, when Google gets (rightfully) shit on for doing it on android?

View full discussion on Hacker News

ID: 45898637Type: storyLast synced: 11/20/2025, 1:30:03 PM

Want the full context?

Jump to the original sources

Read the primary article or dive into the live Hacker News thread when you're ready.

Open link View on HN