Installation

brel ships as a single binary for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Linux (glibc and musl), and Windows. Pick whichever install path fits your environment:

Shell installer

Install the latest prebuilt binary with the release shell script:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/better-releases/brel/releases/latest/download/brel-installer.sh | sh

Homebrew

brew install better-releases/tap/brel

Cargo

Install from crates.io (builds from source, requires a Rust toolchain):

cargo install brel

npm

Run the published npm package without installing anything globally:

npx brel@latest --help

Binary download

Download a platform archive directly from the latest release page and place the binary on your PATH.

Verify the install:

brel --version

In CI you usually don’t install brel yourself: on GitHub the generated workflow uses the better-releases/setup-brel@v1 action, and the GitLab/Forgejo templates install a pinned version with cargo.

Next: the Quick Start.