If you’re a macOS user, you probably know about Homebrew, a repository of easy to install apps and libraries. I use it all the time because it’s so much easier than hunting up all the dependencies required for compiling them yourself.
If you’re a Linux user, you may or may not be familiar with Homebrew. It provides the same services for Linux but my—possible wrong—impression is that its Linux take-up is not as great as it is in macOS.
Regardless, if you’re on Linux or macOS, you should definitely check it out. The TL;DR of this post is that Homebrew has just released version 7.0.0, a major release. That probably wouldn’t be worth an Irreal post except for the “major release” part. On the macOS side, macOS 10.5 and earlier are no longer supported. Being a Mac-head, I didn’t check discontinued versions on Linux so if you’re using Homebrew on Linux you should check that out.
The other big change for Mac-heads is that Intel Macs are moved to Tier 3. You can check out the announcement for exactly what that means but basically it indicates that support is limited and end-of-life is approaching (in September of 2027).
Homebrew is an excellent repository and well worth investigating if you’re not familiar with it. I still have an Intel Mac so it’s a bit of a pain that support is diminishing but I need to upgrade anyway so this is probably the push I need.