Homebrew 7.0.0 is out, here’s what changed for security

Sep 15, 2026 - 03:30
Homebrew 7.0.0 is out, here’s what changed for security

Homebrew installs command-line software and desktop applications from the terminal on macOS and Linux, and Mac developers use it to set up their machines. On Sunday the project shipped version 7.0.0 and closed eight security advisories with it. The most serious of them let unsigned removal metadata for a cask, Homebrew’s recipe for installing a prebuilt application, execute commands with sudo. Homebrew deleted the vulnerable recovery code and the API accessors that reached it. Seven … More

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