Homebrew cask will be disabled, "brew install --cask --no-quarantine" does not work

[tisba]

Hey there!

With Homebrew/homebrew-cask#248381, homebrew will disable the tomatobar cask on 2026-09-01, because it fails the macOS Gatekeeper check.

Also, homebrew does no longer have a --no-quarantine flag as mentioned in the README; brew install --cask --no-quarantine tomatobar does not work. This was dropped in 4.7 (via Homebrew/brew#20755).

When you're using a current version of homebrew, the workarond until September 2026 is to remove the quarantine attribute manually via: xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /opt/homebrew/Caskroom/tomatobar/3.6.1/TomatoBar.app.

See also #97.

[mahyarmirrashed]

% brew install --cask tomatobar
==> Fetching downloads for: tomatobar
Warning: tomatobar has been deprecated because it does not pass the macOS Gatekeeper check! It will be disabled on 2026-09-01.
✔︎ Cask tomatobar (3.6.1)                                                                                                                                         Verified      5.2MB/  5.2MB
Warning: tomatobar has been deprecated because it does not pass the macOS Gatekeeper check! It will be disabled on 2026-09-01.
==> Installing Cask tomatobar
==> Moving App 'TomatoBar.app' to '/Applications/TomatoBar.app'
🍺  tomatobar was successfully installed!

[tikumo]

the xattr fixed it for me, it wouldn't let me start it because of security.

[vladcheck]

hey, is this issue up? 👀

[usr42]

Any plan to fix this soon?