Homebrew 7.0.0 Drops macOS 10.15 Support And Demotes Intel Macs To Tier 3
The package manager is spending its performance and security gains on a narrower platform base, cutting Catalina and demoting Intel to Tier 3 while pointing holdouts at MacPorts.
Reporting from 1 source: GIGAZINE.
Homebrew released version 7.0.0 on September 13, 2026, with faster parallel downloads, installs, and upgrades, plus fixes for two listed vulnerabilities and a new "brew vulns" command that scans installed Formulae. Support for macOS 10.15 Catalina ends, and Intel Mac support moves to Tier 3: it works until September 1, 2027, but Bottle builds and project support end.
Apple silicon on macOS 27 Golden Gate stays at Tier 1. macOS Sonoma 14 also drops to Tier 3, with an upgrade to macOS Sequoia 15 or later recommended for Bottles and .pkg installation. Packages still build from source for older setups, but Intel users are told to migrate to MacPorts.
The security work includes fixes for GHSA-rg9r-ppxp-87hm, where unsigned Cask deletion metadata could run sudo, and GHSA-5263-whxq-77hp, where a malicious Cask could use LaunchServices to run code outside the install sandbox.
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