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Summary

AI summary

Updates Also in this release, UX and correctness fixes, and Acknowledgments across a mixed release.

Changes in this release

Feature Medium

Adds Bundles section with nine curated package stacks.

Adds Bundles section with nine curated package stacks.

Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15

Confidence: high

Feature Low

Introduces pin/unpin functionality for formulae and casks.

Introduces pin/unpin functionality for formulae and casks.

Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15

Confidence: high

Feature Low

Makes Activity console resizable in both shells.

Makes Activity console resizable in both shells.

Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15

Confidence: high

Feature Low

Adds reactive UI for brew command options (adopt/overwrite/force-remove).

Adds reactive UI for brew command options (adopt/overwrite/force-remove).

Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15

Confidence: high

Feature Low

Adds "Run brew doctor" and "Clean up cache…" actions to Storage card.

Adds "Run brew doctor" and "Clean up cache…" actions to Storage card.

Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15

Confidence: high

Bugfix Medium

Fixes GHSA `references` shape issue, enabling advisory enrichment.

Fixes GHSA `references` shape issue, enabling advisory enrichment.

Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15

Confidence: high

Bugfix Low

Fixes native catalog empty‑response guard for parity with Tauri.

Fixes native catalog empty‑response guard for parity with Tauri.

Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15

Confidence: high

Bugfix Low

Fixes outdated tap‑name undercount in native build.

Fixes outdated tap‑name undercount in native build.

Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15

Confidence: high

Bugfix Low

Fixes vulnerable‑footer navigation to jump to Library → Vulnerable.

Fixes vulnerable‑footer navigation to jump to Library → Vulnerable.

Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15

Confidence: high

Bugfix Low

Fixes install‑trend sparkline scaling artifact in both shells.

Fixes install‑trend sparkline scaling artifact in both shells.

Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-15

Confidence: high

Full changelog

brew-browser 0.7.0 / Brew Browser native 0.3.0 — Bundles

Signed + notarized release. Tauri is the macOS 13+ / Linux build; native is the
macOS 26 SwiftUI build. The two version numbers track the same feature batch
(native 0.3.0 ≙ Tauri 0.7.0); they differ only because each shell versions by
its own release history.

Headline: Bundles

Install a whole working setup in one place, not one package at a time.
Bundles are curated one-click package stacks — a local-LLM rig, an image-gen
studio, a web-dev starter — each with the packages it needs and the post-install
steps to make them actually work. A new Bundles section lands in both shells.

  • Nine recipes at launch, every token verified against brew info and
    drawing only on homebrew/core and homebrew/cask (zero third-party taps):
    Local LLMs, Image Generation, Graphics & Design, Media Toolkit, Web Dev
    Starter, Local Databases, Agentic Web Dev, LAMP Stack, and LEMP Stack.
  • Master list + Details pane. Bundles use the app's canonical master-list
    and right-side Details pane, matching Library and Trending exactly — nothing
    is auto-selected, the pane opens when you pick a bundle and closes when you
    dismiss it or switch sections.
  • Readiness gating. A zero-install system profile (RAM, architecture, GPU,
    disk) decides whether your Mac can actually run a stack, so an 8 GB machine
    isn't told to install a local-LLM bundle it can't support. A single header
    pill carries the verdict; a color-coded callout appears only when a bundle is
    marginal or blocked.
  • Intent up front. Each bundle leads with a short description paragraph
    explaining what the stack is for, rendered under the tagline.
  • Clickable inline package descriptions. Every package row is a disclosure
    that lazily fetches its one-line summary (catalog first, brew info
    fallback), cached, with multiple rows open at once.
  • Per-package Install. A "Not installed" package exposes an inline
    Install action that installs just that package through the streamed
    install path, keeps the Details pane open, and flips the row to Installed —
    independent of the description toggle.
  • Setup guidance that knows what it can automate. brew-native install steps
    run in-app and stream into the Activity drawer; external commands (model
    pulls, service bootstrapping, and the like) are presented copy-only rather
    than executed silently.
  • Contributor-friendly by design. Recipes are validated JSON files that
    anyone can PR against a published contract, with CI enforcing the schema. The
    long tail (Rails, Django, MEAN, and others) is open for community
    contributions.

Also in this release

Pin / unpin packages

Hold a package back from "Update all." Pinning works in both shells for
formulae and casks, with a Pinned filter tab in the Library, a
cask-aware pinned count, and a bottom status bar that leads with the active
filter's count. Closes the long-standing pin/unpin requests (#141; closes #90,
#134).

Resizable Activity console

The Activity console is now resizable in both shells, so you can give live
brew output as much room as you want (#136).

In-app brew command options

A reactive recovery UI surfaces adopt / overwrite / force-remove choices when a
brew job needs them, with an Advanced disclosure for greedy upgrades and
autoremove (#109; addresses #98 reactive, #47, #13, #102, #100).

Brew Doctor + Cleanup on the Dashboard

The Storage card gains two actions, both streamed into the Activity drawer:

  • Run brew doctor — runs brew doctor and shows diagnostics live
    (advisories are surfaced as info, not a failure).
  • Clean up cache…brew cleanup --prune=all to reclaim cached downloads,
    with a "frees ~X" estimate and a confirm step. --scrub (which also clears
    the current versions' downloads) is an opt-in toggle, off by default (#82,
    #83; issue #80).

Vulnerability scanning hardening

  • Exposure parity + native GHSA enrichment. The native build gains the
    source: live/cache label and GHSA enrichment, and the Tauri over-count is
    fixed, with unified card wording across both shells (#107).
  • Tap-name + JSON-salvage fixes. brew vulns now accepts tap-qualified
    formula names and salvages JSON from banner noise (#103; #62, #92).
  • Native catalog empty-response guard brings the native build to parity
    (#108).
  • GHSA advisory references shape fix. GHSA references are a string
    array, not [{url}]; the previous shape made enrichment a silent no-op. Now
    repaired and verified end-to-end (#110).

UX and correctness fixes

  • Native list scaling — content columns fit the narrow-window floor without
    clipping the sidebar (#142).
  • Install-trend sparkline scale — the sparkline no longer mixes cumulative
    and daily counts, removing the "cliff" artifact. Both shells (#143).
  • Tauri vulnerable-footer navigation — the vulnerable-count footer now jumps
    to Library → Vulnerable instead of the Dashboard (#144).
  • Native outdated tap-name undercount — tap-installed outdated packages are
    no longer dropped from the Outdated filter (#145).

Changes

  • Package metadata and docs aligned to the release train: Tauri 0.7.0, native
    0.3.0.

Acknowledgments

  • @cseelye — the resizable Activity console, contributed to both shells
    (#136).
  • @modeezie — the Brew Doctor / Cleanup cache-maintenance request, with a
    well-scoped "show me what it's doing" ask and the safer non-scrub default
    suggestion (#80).
  • @Arvuno — the catalog reject-empty-response fix that hardens the catalog
    refresh against upstream returning nothing (#101).
  • Everyone who filed the pin/unpin, brew-options, and vulnerability-scanning
    issues that shaped this batch.

Issues & feedback

github.com/msitarzewski/brew-browser/issues.
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Earlier breaking changes

  • v0.3.1 Bundle identifier changed from `dev.openbrew.browser` to `com.zerologic.brew-browser`, requiring re‑authorization on upgrade.

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