Install liquibase with Homebrew, apk, chocolatey, Nix, scoop, winget

Project links

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream docs
• Package manager page

Commands and aliases

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Project history

Nathan Voxland founded the Liquibase open-source project in 2006 to make database changes easier to track. The project developed into a Java-based database migration ecosystem with command-line usage, embeddable libraries, build-tool integrations, and commercial governance products around the same core workflow.

The main source repository is the liquibase/liquibase GitHub project. The documentation site distinguishes Liquibase Community from Liquibase Secure, but both build around the same core concepts of changelogs, changesets, checksums, update operations, rollback operations, and database history tables.

Adoption history

Liquibase adoption followed the rise of database DevOps: teams wanted schema changes reviewed, versioned, and deployed alongside application code instead of kept as ad hoc DBA scripts. Support for SQL, XML, YAML, and JSON changelogs made it usable across teams with different preferences.

Package managers carry Liquibase because developers and CI workers need a reproducible CLI. The Homebrew formula also records packaging details that differ from the cask path: it uses the liquibase formula name, depends on openjdk, and tells users to set LIQUIBASE_HOME to the formula libexec directory.

How it is used

A typical Liquibase project stores changelogs in the repository, points Liquibase at a target database and JDBC driver, then runs update or rollback commands. Liquibase records execution in DATABASECHANGELOG and uses checksums to notice changes to previously deployed changesets.

The Homebrew formula is the package-manager-oriented CLI path for brew install liquibase. In this batch it records stable version 4.33.0, while the cask:liquibase-community package records the vendor Community cask at version 5.0.3.

Why package nerds care

Liquibase is a classic developer-tool package because it lives in local shells, CI images, Docker workflows, and build systems but acts on external databases. Correct packaging has to balance Java runtime dependency, driver extensibility, config-file conventions, and command-line reproducibility.

The formula/cask split is package-nerd useful: the formula presents Liquibase as a Homebrew-managed CLI with an OpenJDK dependency and LIQUIBASE_HOME guidance, while the cask presents Liquibase Community as a vendor-distributed application archive.

Timeline

• 2006: Nathan Voxland founded the Liquibase open-source project.
• 2010s: Liquibase expanded from a Java database migration library into a broader DevOps command-line and integration ecosystem.
• 2020: Liquibase company branding aligned with the project name and the product family around Community and commercial offerings.
• 2025: Liquibase documentation described Community changelogs in SQL, XML, YAML, and JSON and continued documenting DATABASECHANGELOG behavior.
• 2026: The Homebrew formula record for this batch identifies liquibase stable 4.33.0 with an OpenJDK dependency and LIQUIBASE_HOME guidance.

Related projects

• Flyway is Liquibase's closest package-manager neighbor in database migration tooling.
• Related tooling includes JDBC drivers, Maven and Gradle plugins, Docker images, database diff tools, CI/CD systems, and commercial database DevOps products.

Sources

• https://docs.liquibase.com/
• https://docs.liquibase.com/community/user-guide-5-0-3/what-is-a-changelog
• https://docs.liquibase.com/secure/user-guide-5-2/what-is-the-databasechangelog-table
• https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/liquibase-community
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/liquibase
• https://github.com/liquibase/liquibase
• https://www.liquibase.com/company/leadership