# Install ghr with Homebrew, Nix, winget

Upload multiple artifacts to GitHub Release in parallel. Version 0.18.3 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-25. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#ghr.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:ghr
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install ghr
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#ghr
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gh/ghr/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Windows

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id cataggar.ghr -e
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:ghr
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.18.3
- **Source summary:** Upload multiple artifacts to GitHub Release in parallel
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/tcnksm/ghr>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/tcnksm/ghr>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-25T20:55:22-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- ghr (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.18.3
## Project history and usage

ghr is a release-engineering CLI for creating GitHub Releases and uploading release artifacts in parallel.

### Project history

The ghr repository was created in July 2014, with an initial v0.1.0 release published days later. Its README presents a Go-oriented release workflow: build artifacts, tag a release, and use `ghr TAG PATH` to create a GitHub Release and upload the files.

The tool developed around the practical needs of release automation: reading repository information from `.git/config`, accepting `GITHUB_TOKEN`, supporting GitHub Enterprise through `GITHUB_API`, replacing or recreating assets, marking draft or prerelease releases, and later exposing a GitHub Action wrapper for workflow files.

### Adoption history

ghr became useful in the era when projects began publishing multi-platform binaries as GitHub Release assets. The README's demo centers on cross-compiled Go binaries, and the documented Action support shows how the same tool moved into CI-based release pipelines.

### How it is used

Practitioners use ghr after a build job has produced a directory of archives, checksums, installers, or other assets. A typical run supplies a tag and path, with optional title, body, commitish, draft, prerelease, replace, delete, generated notes, and parallel upload settings.

### Why package nerds care

Package nerds care about ghr because it is release plumbing: it turns build output into a GitHub Release page with assets, which downstream package managers and install scripts often consume.

### Timeline

- 2014: GitHub repository created.
- 2014: v0.1.0 initial release published.
- 2021: GitHub automatic release notes support arrived in GitHub, and ghr later documented a `-generatenotes` flag.
- 2020s: README documents a reusable GitHub Action interface.

### Related projects

- The README compares ghr with aktau/github-release and connects it to GitHub Releases, GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, Go cross-compilation, checksums, and CI build artifacts.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/tcnksm/ghr>
- <https://github.com/tcnksm/ghr>
- <https://github.com/tcnksm/ghr#readme>
- <https://github.com/tcnksm/ghr/releases/tag/v0.1.0>
- <https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/tcnksm/ghr>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - ghr: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gh/ghr/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - cataggar.ghr: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: cataggar.ghr from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/ghr.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/ghr.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph