Continuing the discussion from Hugo 0.55.1 released: Yes, homebrew and friends are great, but you don’t have to wait on them as you can always do something like the below
pushd /tmp
wget https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.55.1/hugo_extended_0.55.1_macOS-64bit.tar.gz
tar xzvf hugo_extended_0.55.1_macOS-64bit.tar.gz
cp hugo /usr/local/bin
popd
hugo version