# Install goreleaser with Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop, winget, zypper Deliver Go binaries as fast and easily as possible. Version 2.17.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-05. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:goreleaser ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install goreleaser ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install goreleaser ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: devel/goreleaser/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#goreleaser ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/go/goreleaser/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S goreleaser ``` Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: goreleaser from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install goreleaser ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: goreleaser from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst ### Windows - Scoop (92%): ```sh scoop install main/goreleaser ``` Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/goreleaser.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - winget (92%): ```sh winget install --id goreleaser.goreleaser -e ``` Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: goreleaser.goreleaser from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:goreleaser - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 2.17.0 - **Source summary:** Deliver Go binaries as fast and easily as possible - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** MIT - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-07-05T03:37:31Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - goreleaser (cli) - goreleaser (alias) ## Build dependencies - go ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 2.17.0 - Package-manager updated: 2026-07-05 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser - info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## Project history and usage GoReleaser is a release automation tool that turns tagged source code into cross-platform artifacts, release notes, package-manager updates, container images, checksums, signatures, and CI-driven publishing workflows. ### Project history The GitHub repository was created on December 21, 2016, and the project's own anniversary post identifies that date as the first-commit milestone. GoReleaser spent nearly five years in a v0 release stream before the v1.0.0 announcement, where the maintainer described 467 releases and 3299 commits before stabilizing the v1 line. The project grew from a Go binary release helper into a broader release-engineering system. Official documentation describes a configuration-driven workflow, CI integration from the first commit, generated changelogs, SCM releases, archives, checksums, package-manager publishing, container images, and supply-chain features. By v2, the project framed the major release mainly as cleanup of deprecated options after the v1.26 series. ### Adoption history GoReleaser became closely associated with Go CLI distribution because it solved the recurring package-maintainer chore of producing binaries for many operating systems and publishing them to GitHub Releases, Homebrew taps, Scoop, Docker registries, and other downstream channels. Its README advertises local and CI installation paths, and the Homebrew formula records distribution through Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, Scoop, winget, and zypper. The GoReleaser project also developed an ecosystem around documentation, a GitHub Action, sponsorship, Pro features, examples, and related tools such as nfpm. Later announcements expanded the supported build story beyond Go, including Rust, Zig, TypeScript, Python, Bun, and Deno-oriented release workflows. ### How it is used A typical project keeps a .goreleaser.yaml file in the repository, runs goreleaser init or hand-writes the configuration, validates it with goreleaser check, and lets a CI job run GoReleaser on a release tag. The tool then builds artifacts, archives them, generates changelogs, and publishes them according to the configured release, package, and registry sections. GoReleaser matters in CI because it encodes release policy in source control. Maintainers can review a single YAML file for binary matrix, archive naming, checksums, signing, Homebrew or Scoop publication, Docker images, and release-note behavior instead of keeping bespoke shell scripts in every repository. ### Why package nerds care Package nerds care about GoReleaser because it is both a tool and a package-production pattern. It popularized a repeatable path from Git tags to bottled binaries, generated formulas, checksums, SBOM/provenance-related outputs, and package-manager pull updates, reducing the hand-maintained release scripts that often bit-rot in CLI projects. Its configuration precedence list and schema support are also packaging-significant: editors, CI, and downstream automation can reason about a stable release manifest rather than ad hoc release instructions. ### Timeline - 2016-12-21: Repository created and first-commit anniversary date - 2021-12-03: v1.0.0 announced after 467 releases and 3299 commits - 2021-12-21: v1.2 marked five years since the first commit - 2024-06-04: GoReleaser v2 announced - 2024-12-15: v2.5 announcement highlighted multi-language support and the eighth anniversary - 2025-04-29: v2.9 announcement introduced Python builds through Poetry and uv ### Related projects - goreleaser-action runs GoReleaser from GitHub Actions workflows. - nfpm is a related packaging tool used in the GoReleaser ecosystem. - Homebrew, Scoop, winget, Docker registries, GitHub Releases, GitLab, and Gitea are common publication targets. - Cosign and SLSA-related workflows appear in GoReleaser's supply-chain documentation and blog history. ### Sources - - - - - - - - - ## Security Notes narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: .config/goreleaser.yml, .config/goreleaser.yaml, .goreleaser.yml, .goreleaser.yaml, goreleaser.yml, goreleaser.yaml ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** goreleaser - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Nix - goreleaser: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/go/goreleaser/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman - goreleaser - 2.14.0-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: goreleaser from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Deliver Go binaries as fast and easily as possible | https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser - zypper - goreleaser - 2.16.0-1.1: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: goreleaser from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | CLI tool for release engineering in Go, Rust, Zig and TypeScript | https://goreleaser.com/ - MacPorts - goreleaser: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/goreleaser/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Scoop - main/goreleaser: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/goreleaser.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - winget - goreleaser.goreleaser: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: goreleaser.goreleaser from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Related links - [Package publisher tools](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/package-publishers/) - Belongs to a package publishing or registry command family. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata. - [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [cargo-dist](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cargo-dist/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, packaging, release-automation. - [jreleaser](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/jreleaser/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, packaging, release-automation. - [bump-my-version](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/bump-my-version/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, release-automation. - [bumpp](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/bumpp/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, release-automation. - [cargo-release](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cargo-release/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, release-automation. - [fastlane](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/fastlane/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, release-automation. - [release-it](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/release-it/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, release-automation. - [changie](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/changie/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, go, release-automation. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/goreleaser.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/goreleaser.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph