brew install fails with "No matching version found for @sdods/agents ... with a date before"

Asked 21 Apr 20262,260 views3 answers

14votes

Tried to install the day a release went out and got this, which I cannot make sense of:

text

No matching version found for @sdods/agents@0.2.2 with a date before 2026-04-21T00:00:00.000Z

The version exists — I can see it on npm and npm i -g @sdods/cli works fine on the same machine. So why does brew think it does not?

asked by Paulo Mendes97 · 21 Apr 2026

3 answers

19votes✓
Accepted answer
The formula is correct and the package exists. It is too new.
Homebrew builds node formulae with std_npm_args, which passes --min-release-age. npm then refuses any dependency published inside that window, and the message it prints is the one you pasted — it reads like "this version does not exist" but it means "this version is younger than the floor I was given".
There is nothing to fix on your side. Wait for the packages to age past the window and the same command installs. If you need it today, npm has no such floor:
bash
```
npm install -g @sdods/cli
```
This is also why the formula is never pushed the same day the packages are published — it would be correct and uninstallable, which is the worst combination.
answered by Daniel Oyelaranmaintainer24,177 · 21 Apr 2026
7votes
Confirming from the other side of it: I hit the same message on Tuesday, changed nothing at all, and it installed on Thursday. Do not go editing the formula locally, you will only give yourself a second problem.
answered by Sergio Alcaraz415 · 22 Apr 2026
5votes
If you use the install script instead of brew you never see this either — it fetches the published packages directly and has no release-age policy of its own.
bash
```
curl -fsSL https://sdods.com/install.sh | sh
```
answered by Reeta Nandalmaintainer41,280 · 23 Apr 2026

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