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Install

There are two GoReleaser distributions: OSS and Pro, each have a multitude of installation options.

You can see the instructions for each of them below.

Homebrew Tap 

brew install --cask goreleaser/tap/goreleaser

Homebrew


Community Owned
brew install goreleaser

Warning

The formula in homebrew-core might be slightly outdated. Use our homebrew tap to always get the latest updates.

NPM 

npm i -g @goreleaser/goreleaser

Snapcraft 

sudo snap install --classic goreleaser

Scoop 

scoop bucket add goreleaser https://github.com/goreleaser/scoop-bucket.git
scoop install goreleaser

Chocolatey


Community Owned
choco install goreleaser

Winget 

winget install goreleaser

Apt Repository 

echo 'deb [trusted=yes] https://repo.goreleaser.com/apt/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/goreleaser.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install goreleaser

Yum Repository 

echo '[goreleaser]
name=GoReleaser
baseurl=https://repo.goreleaser.com/yum/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
exclude=goreleaser-pro' | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/goreleaser.repo
sudo yum install goreleaser

AUR 

yay -S goreleaser-bin

Nixpkgs


Community Owned
nix-shell -p goreleaser

Warning

The package in nixpkgs might be slightly outdated, as it is not updated automatically. Use our NUR to always get the latest updates.

NUR

First, you’ll need to add our NUR to your nix configuration. You can follow the guides here.

Once you do that, you can install the packages.

{ pkgs, lib, ... }: {
  home.packages = with pkgs; [
    nur.repos.goreleaser.goreleaser
  ];
}

Docker

Registries:

Example usage:

docker run --rm --privileged \
  -v $PWD:/go/src/github.com/user/repo \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  -w /go/src/github.com/user/repo \
  -e GITHUB_TOKEN \
  -e DOCKER_USERNAME \
  -e DOCKER_PASSWORD \
  -e DOCKER_REGISTRY \
  goreleaser/goreleaser release

Warning

The provided docker image does not support the Snapcraft feature.

The DOCKER_REGISTRY environment variable can be left empty when you are releasing to the public docker registry.

If you need more things, you are encouraged to keep your own image. You can always use GoReleaser’s own Dockerfile as an example though and iterate from that.

Note

There are also :nightly tags available with the latest nightly builds.

Linux packages

Download the .deb, .rpm, or .apk packages from the releases page and install them with the appropriate tools.

Download

To install, after downloading the files, run:

dpkg -i goreleaser*.deb
rpm -ivh goreleaser*.rpm
apk add --allow-untrusted goreleaser*.apk

go install 

go install github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser/v2@latest

Requires Go 1.26.

Bash Script

This script does not install anything, it just downloads, verifies and runs GoReleaser. Its purpose is to be used within scripts and CIs.

curl -sfL https://goreleaser.com/static/run | bash VERSION=v2.14.3 -s -- check

Note

The VERSION environment variable can be omitted to get the latest stable version, or you can set it to nightly to get the last nightly build.

Manually

Download the pre-compiled binaries from the releases page and copy them to the desired location:

Download

Verifying the artifacts

Binaries

Signatures

All artifacts are checksummed, and the checksum file is signed with cosign.

  1. Download the files you want, and the checksums.txt, checksum.txt.pem and checksums.txt.sig files from the releases page:
wget 'https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser/releases/download/v2.14.3/checksums.txt'
wget 'https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser/releases/download/v2.14.3/checksums.txt.sigstore.json'
  1. Verify the signature:
cosign verify-blob \
  --certificate-identity 'https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser/.github/workflows/release.yml@refs/tags/v2.14.3' \
  --certificate-oidc-issuer 'https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com' \
  --bundle checksums.txt.sigstore.json \
  ./checksums.txt
  1. If the signature is valid, you can then verify the SHA256 sums match with the downloaded binary:
sha256sum --ignore-missing -c checksums.txt

Attestations

You can also verify the attestations:

gh attestation verify --owner goreleaser *.tar.gz
# PS: can be any file from the release

Docker images

Our Docker images are signed with cosign.

Verify the signatures:

cosign verify \
  --certificate-identity 'https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser/.github/workflows/release.yml@refs/tags/v2.14.3' \
  --certificate-oidc-issuer 'https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com' \
  goreleaser/goreleaser

Nightly builds

Nightly build are pre-releases of the current code into the main branch. Use it for testing out new features only.

Download the pre-compiled binaries from the nightly release and copy them to the desired location.

Docker images are also available, look for tags with a -nightly suffix for the last nightly of a specific release, or the :nightly tag, which is always the latest nightly build available.

You may also use the Bash Script method by setting the VERSION environment variable to nightly.

Packaging status

Packaging status

Community

Install options with the “Community Owned” badge are maintained by the community and might not always be up to date.

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