mosquitto
brew install mosquittoMessage broker implementing the MQTT protocol
License: EPL-1.0 OR BSD-3-Clause
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/mosquitto.json
Formula code: mosquitto.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
golden gate | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| tahoe | ✅ | |
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 2.1.2 |
Revision: 3
Depends on:
| cjson | 1.7.19 | Ultralightweight JSON parser in ANSI C |
| libwebsockets | 5.1.0 | C websockets server library |
| openssl@4 | 4.1.0 | Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit |
Depends on when building from source:
| cmake | 4.4.5 | Cross-platform make |
| pkgconf | 3.0.10 | Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit |
Uses from macOS: libxslt (build), libedit, sqlite
Binaries:
mosquitto,
mosquitto_ctrl,
mosquitto_db_dump,
mosquitto_passwd,
mosquitto_pub,
mosquitto_rr,
mosquitto_signal,
mosquitto_sub
Service:
| Start now and at login: | brew services start mosquitto |
| Run directly: | $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/mosquitto/sbin/mosquitto -c $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf |
| mosquitto has been installed with a default configuration file. You can make changes to the configuration by editing: $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf |
GitHub Packages downloads:
| Last 30 days | 26,314 |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 613,066 |
| Analytics install events (30 days) | 3,097 |
| Downloads / install events (30 days) | 8.5× |
Source: GitHub Packages, fetched 2026-11-08T00:54:34Z. Analytics dates: 2026-10-09 to 2026-11-08. Totals exclude downloads from Bintray before the migration to GitHub Packages. Downloads and install attempts measure different things; the difference does not count analytics opt-outs. Definitions and limitations.
Analytics:
| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installs | 3,088 | 5,584 | 24,445 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 9 | 13 | 47 |
| Installs on Request | 3,029 | 5,494 | 23,948 |
Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 9 | 13 | 47 |
| Build Errors | 4 |