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What did we do? 2024 edition

Developments we made · Since the last annual update in December 2023, we have released several minor versions of Homebrew. We also concluded work on our...

Published on December 29, 2024 by Colin Dean

What did we do? 2023 edition

2023 was a productive year for Homebrew. Herein are things we did thanks to your generous contributions. Developments we made · Moved to Influx from Google Analytics Announced in February and...

Published on December 17, 2023 by Colin Dean

What did we do?

This Year · API Project As reported in our update in September, we started a project to allo...

Published on December 21, 2022 by Sean Molenaar

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from Sam Ford to Homebrew • July 1, 2025

-$900.00 USD

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Maintenance and Development

from Klaus Hipp to Homebrew • July 1, 2025

-€764.04 EUR

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Credit from James Kingdon to Homebrew • July 1, 2025

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$344,043.22 USD

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