5.0.0 — Homebrew

Today, I’d like to announce Homebrew 5.0.0. The most significant changes since 4.6.0 are download concurrency by default, official support for Linux ARM64/AArch64, timescales for deprecating macOS Intel and removing macOS Gatekeeper bypass behaviours. Major changes and deprecations since 4.6.0: HOMEBREW_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY=auto is set by default. This enables parallel downloads by default for all users. It can be disabled by setting HOMEBREW_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY=1. Concurrent downloads now have progress reporting. We expect there may be a long-tail of issues, please report them! Homebrew has promoted Linux ARM64/AArch64 to Tier 1 support. Casks without codesigning are deprecated. We will disable all Homebrew/homebrew-cask casks that fail Gatekeeper checks in September 2026. Homebrew now provides official macOS 26 (Tahoe) support. Homebrew’s future macOS support is noted in our Support Tiers document at https://docs.brew.sh/Support-Tiers#future-macos-support.