--- date: 2022-01-26 slug: goreleaser-v1.4 categories: - announcements authors: - caarlos0 --- # Announcing GoReleaser v1.4 — the AUR release GoReleaser can now create and publish Arch Linux `PKGBUILD` files to Arch User Repositories! <!-- more -->  This amazing new feature was sponsored by [Charm](https://charm.sh/). ## **How does it work?** The AUR is basically a group of Git repositories that, if you push the right set of files, are installable on an Arch Linux box using a tool like [yay](https://github.com/Jguer/yay). To push there, you'll need to create an account on [the AUR website](https://aur.archlinux.org/) and inform them of the public key you'll be using to push. Then you just need to [add some configuration to your goreleaser.yaml](https://goreleaser.com/customization/aur) file and...you're done! GoReleaser will build everything for you, clone the repository, update the files, commit everything, and push it back. **And that's it!** You can now instruct your users to install your package with a command like `yay -S goreleaser-bin` or `yay -S goreleaser-pro-bin`. How awesome is that!? ## **Other notable features** - [GoReleaser Pro](https://goreleaser.com/pro) now allows you to use `-snapshot` without a `-key`. This should help users without a license key test things locally, or on a CI job with fewer privileges (e.g. GitHub Actions on a pull request). - And finally, both the OSS and Pro distributions now have man pages: run `man goreleaser` or `man goreleaser-pro` to check them out. - On [GoReleaser Pro](https://goreleaser.com/pro), custom variables should now be [prefixed with `.Var`](https://goreleaser.com/deprecations/#variables). ## **Other news** - We still don't have a new date for our first community call. Personal life a little too busy lately, will try my best to schedule it ASAP. [Link](https://github.com/goreleaser/community/pull/2). - GoReleaser now has ~9.5k stars and 262 contributors! Thanks, everyone! - Our Discord server is getting new members almost daily. [Join and chat with us](https://discord.gg/RGEBtg8vQ6)! --- Full disclosure: [Charm](https://charm.sh/) is my current employer. Shameless plug: Definitely [check us out](https://charm.sh/), we are [building a bunch of cool OSS stuff](https://github.com/charmbracelet)!