# Install jreleaser with Homebrew, apk, MacPorts, scoop, winget

Release projects quickly and easily with JReleaser. Version 1.25.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-29.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:jreleaser
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install jreleaser
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install jreleaser
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: devel/jreleaser/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add jreleaser
```

  Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: jreleaser from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/jreleaser
```

  Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/jreleaser.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id JReleaser.jreleaser -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: JReleaser.jreleaser from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:jreleaser
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/jreleaser>
- **Version:** 1.25.0
- **Source summary:** Release projects quickly and easily with JReleaser
- **Homepage:** <https://jreleaser.org/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/jreleaser/jreleaser>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://jreleaser.org/guide/latest>
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/jreleaser/jreleaser/releases/download/v1.25.0/jreleaser-1.25.0.zip>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-29T10:51:23Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- jreleaser (cli)
- jreleaser (alias)

## Dependencies

- openjdk

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on all

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 1.25.0
- Package-manager updated: 2026-06-29
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/jreleaser/jreleaser
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.
## Project history and usage

JReleaser is a release automation tool for Java and non-Java projects. It packages release creation, artifact signing, checksums, changelogs, announcements, and publishing to package managers into a CLI and build-tool-oriented workflow.

### Project history

The project README describes JReleaser as a tool for releasing Java and non-Java projects, including Go, Rust, Elixir, and C#. Its goal is to simplify release creation and artifact publication while keeping distribution-specific options configurable.

### Adoption history

JReleaser has a comparatively broad packaging and integration footprint. The README points to Maven Central artifacts, the Gradle Plugin Portal, GitHub release downloads, Docker images, Flathub, Chocolatey, AppImage, Homebrew, and an Azure DevOps extension. The input batch also records packages in apk, Homebrew, MacPorts, Scoop, and winget.

### How it is used

JReleaser users describe distributions and release behavior in jreleaser.yml, jreleaser.toml, or jreleaser.json, then run the CLI or build-tool integrations from local development or CI/CD. The guide includes quick starts for the CLI, Maven, Gradle, and Ant, and concept pages for workflows, distributions, artifacts, templates, packagers, deployers, announcers, and signing.

### Why package nerds care

For package nerds, JReleaser is significant because it automates the unglamorous final mile of shipping: turning one project release into many ecosystem-specific packages. It is especially relevant to JVM projects but intentionally crosses language boundaries and treats package managers as first-class release targets.

### Timeline

- 2021: GitHub release pages recorded JReleaser v0.1.0 on 2021-04-10.
- 2022: GitHub release pages recorded JReleaser v1.0.0 on 2022-04-10.
- 2025: The release feed recorded a regular v1.x cadence through v1.22.0 on 2025-12-31.
- 2026: The release feed recorded v1.25.0 on 2026-06-29.

### Related projects

- JReleaser is related to Maven, Gradle, Ant, Docker, Homebrew, Chocolatey, Scoop, winget, MacPorts, Flathub, AppImage, and CI systems. It sits in the same release-automation space as build plugins, changelog tools, signing tools, and package-manager publishing bots.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/jreleaser.json>
- <https://github.com/jreleaser/jreleaser>
- <https://github.com/jreleaser/jreleaser/releases/tag/v0.1.0>
- <https://github.com/jreleaser/jreleaser/releases/tag/v1.0.0>
- <https://github.com/jreleaser/jreleaser/releases/tag/v1.25.0>
- <https://jreleaser.org/>
- <https://jreleaser.org/guide/latest/index.html>


## 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: ./jreleaser.yml, ./jreleaser.toml, ./jreleaser.json

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.jreleaser/config.properties, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/jreleaser/config.properties
## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** jreleaser
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Other Package-Manager Records

- apk - jreleaser - 1.24.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: jreleaser from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Release projects quickly and easily with JReleaser | https://jreleaser.org/
- apk - jreleaser-doc - 1.24.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: jreleaser-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Release projects quickly and easily with JReleaser (documentation) | https://jreleaser.org/
- MacPorts - jreleaser: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/jreleaser/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Scoop - main/jreleaser: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/jreleaser.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - JReleaser.jreleaser: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: JReleaser.jreleaser 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.
- [openjdk](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/openjdk/) - Runtime 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.
- [fastlane](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/fastlane/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, deployment, developer-tools, release-automation.
- [goreleaser](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/goreleaser/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, packaging, release-automation.
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- [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.
- [release-it](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/release-it/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, release-automation.
- [abi3audit](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/abi3audit/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, packaging.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/jreleaser.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/jreleaser.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
