Announcing GoReleaser v2.14

Happy 2026! The first release of the year is here, and it is packed with goodies!

GitHub Secure Open Source Func

GoReleaser was one of the projects participating in session 3 of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund.

You can read the announcement here.

Finally, air-gapped license checks

If you need to release in an air-gapped environment, you may now export your key and validate it offline:

goreleaser license-export -k your-key -o goreleaser.key
goreleaser license-verify -k goreleaser.key

The license will be valid for at most 3 months, or your next billing cycle, whichever happens first.

As you may have noticed, the $GORELEASER_KEY and the --key flag can now also point to a file instead of plain text.

Note

This feature is only available in the Business and Enterprise plans.

Better changelogs

On nightly builds, you may now use github, gitlab, and gitea changelog implementations (instead of rolling back to git), which should help you have more similar-to-production changelogs.

You can now also include co-authors in the changelogs:

changelog:
  format: "{{ .SHA }}: {{ .Message }}{{ if .Logins }} ({{ .Logins | englishJoin }}){{ end }}"

macOS .pkg installers

GoReleaser Pro can now create, sign, and notarize .pkg installers for macOS!

A minimal example:

pkgs:
  - identifier: org.example.foo

See the documentation for more details.

Windows installers

You can also create Windows installers with the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS).

Example:

nsis:
  - script: ./path/to/script.nsis

You will, of course, need to create your own .nsis script file. Maybe we add a sensible default in the future, but for now, this is a requirement. You can of course use the example provided in the documentation and it should just work.

On the same note, MSI installers can now use hooks as well.

Docker v2 improvements

The next version of the Docker feature has a couple of improvements, like allowing to template the platforms field, better support for daemonless snapshot builds, and warning the user if it looks like they’re rebuilding the binaries inside the Dockerfile.

Homebrew Casks

Continuing our efforts to replace the old, hacky brews with Homebrew Casks, we now allow users to glob manpages, as well as fix the Cask generation for archives that use wrap_in_directory.

See the documentation and migration guide.

Dynamically linked binaries

GoReleaser will now detect if the binary is dynamically linked and better generate Nix derivations based on that (namely, use autoPatchelfHook, stdenv.cc, etc).

Better, safer output

We made some improvements to our internal gerrors package, which should allow us to give better, more detailed error outputs.

And speaking of outputs, all relevant exec.Command calls now have their output go through a redactor, which will replace secret-looking environment variables with their keys in the output.

We also made improvements to our logging library, so when you use --verbose, command outputs look a bit better.

Deprecations

The furies key always sounded weird to me, so it will be renamed to gemfury. Going forward, we will make all the keys that refer to a specific technology singular to prevent these weird readings.

GitHub Action

We also updated our GitHub Action. It now works on Node 24 and was converted to ESM.

See the complete release notes.

Other updates

• nfpm:
  • allow to filter by GOAMD64
  • added support to ARCHVARIANT for .deb
  • properly handle meta packages
• nix: add a formatter option
• winget: allow to set the package name
• tmpl: englishJoin function
• aur: fix invalid use of ${pkgver} in the SRCINFO file
• github: fix GitHub enterprise URLs
• dockers/v2: better log outputs and driver warning
• docker: fixed regression with new buildx versions
• sbom: better log output

Other news

• GoReleaser now has ~15.6k stars and 455 contributors! Thanks, everyone!
• We often discuss new features in our Discord server.  Join the conversation!
• nFPM had new releases as well,  check it out.
• The GoReleaser Action had new releases, check it out

Download

You can install or upgrade using your favorite package manager, or see the full release notes and download the pre-compiled binaries from GitHub:

Install v2.14.0 (OSS) v2.14.0 (Pro)

Helping out

You can help by reporting issues, contributing features, documentation improvements, and bug fixes. You can also sponsor the project, or get a GoReleaser Pro license.

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