Excessive "Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula.jws.json"

[cilia]

Output of brew config

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 4.1.19
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: 7f745d04d90eaec76c8d5830d6ce6a0d7db888b3
Last commit: 2 days ago
Core tap JSON: 08 Nov 05:08 UTC
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /opt/homebrew
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 8
Homebrew Ruby: 2.6.10 => /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/bin/ruby
CPU: octa-core 64-bit arm_firestorm_icestorm
Clang: 15.0.0 build 1500
Git: 2.42.1 => /opt/homebrew/bin/git
Curl: 8.1.2 => /usr/bin/curl
macOS: 13.6.1-arm64
CLT: 15.0.0.0.1.1694021235
Xcode: N/A
Rosetta 2: false

Output of brew doctor

Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry or file an issue; just ignore this. Thanks!

Warning: Some installed formulae are deprecated or disabled.
You should find replacements for the following formulae:
  openssl@1.1

Description of issue

It seems homebrew now does "Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula.jws.json" noticeably more often, whenever I do brew upgrade or brew cleanup, even if it's downloaded just a couple of hours ago. Is this normal behavior, or something is off?

[SMillerDev]

No, that is intended behaviour. It needs to know the latest state of all formulae for most operations. Especially brew upgrade

[cilia]

Ok, thanks for confirming.

[emmabasseyokon]

How do i upgrade openssl@1.1

[gromgit]

No different that upgrading any other Homebrew package:

• brew update to make sure you have the latest list of Homebrew packages, then
• brew upgrade openssl@1.1.

If you're really asking "how do I upgrade to a 1.1 release newer than 1.1.1w", then the answer is "you can't". From OpenSSL's own release strategy page:

Versions 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are no longer supported

Indeed, no release version below 3.x is supported any longer.