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Brew 4.6.1

Brew: 4.6.1 Release

Release date:

August 11, 2025

Previous version:

4.6.0 (released August 5, 2025)

Magnitude:

106 Diff Delta

Contributors:

2 total committers

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Commits:

27 Features Released with 4.6.1

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What's Changed

Update cask definition by @MikeMcQuaid in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20373
Add a flag to brew info to view the size of each formula and cask by @lukarajic in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20360
Add Cask::Installer#prelude to check before download queueing by @MikeMcQuaid in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20375
Fix file descriptor leak in Linux LD library path parsing by @MikeMcQuaid in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20377
diagnostic: Use git -C $path in uncommited modifications nudge by @colindean in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20381
RubyDoc output improvements by @EricFromCanada in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20383
Add rustc wrapper shim to fix RUSTFLAGS conflicts by @MikeMcQuaid in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20380
service: ensure JSON cron output can be null. by @MikeMcQuaid in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20389
docs: mention signing in deprecation criteria by @EricFromCanada in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20388
extend/pathname: accept String as target in write_env_script by @ZhongRuoyu in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20394
download_queue: display hash of rejected download by @EricFromCanada in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20390
handle false content_type by @jrouly in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20392
extend/pathname: fix type error. by @MikeMcQuaid in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20395
extend/pathname: fix another type error. by @MikeMcQuaid in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20396
docs: improve Autobump documentation by @AlternateRT in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20393
download_queue: add missing require. by @MikeMcQuaid in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20398
Revert "spdx: update license data." by @ZhongRuoyu in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20399
Skip rpath relocation of ELF files with protodesc_cold sections by @carlocab in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20403
cask/audit: iterate over artifacts in rosetta/signing audit by @bevanjkay in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20405
formula: append .log to formula build log filenames by @carlocab in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20407
patches audit: add tests for patches corrector by @Moisan in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20404
os/linux/ld: do not crash the program if the ld.so.conf entry is not readable by @XuehaiPan in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20412
os/linux/elf: fix file descriptor leak by @ZhongRuoyu in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20408
cask/audit: add skiplist for signing audit by @bevanjkay in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20413

New Contributors

@lukarajic made their first contribution in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20360
@jrouly made their first contribution in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20392
@AlternateRT made their first contribution in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/20393

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/compare/4.6.0...4.6.1