[macOS] Default Xcode on macOS 12 Monterey will be set to Xcode 14.0.1 on October, 3

[miketimofeev]

Breaking changes

Default Xcode will be changed to 14.0.1 on macOS 12 Monterey

Target date

The propagation will start on September, 26 October, 3 and take 2-3 days

The motivation for the changes

We would like to provide images with the latest stable updates as default ones

Possible impact

If you use the default Xcode version and your project is not compatible with Xcode 14.0.1 your build can be broken.
If your project is not compatible with the latest Xamarin bundle it can be broken.

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions

Virtual environments affected

• Ubuntu 18.04
• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 22.04
• macOS 10.15
• macOS 11
• macOS 12
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

Mitigation ways

Please consider switching Xcode in runtime to the version that you need to build an app.
The following snippet can be used to switch Xcode:

sudo xcode-select -s "/Applications/Xcode_13.4.1.app"
The list of all available Xcode versions can be found in the image documentation

[miketimofeev]

UPD: the default Xcode will be 14.0.1

[retyui]

@miketimofeev can be closed ?

[mikhailkoliada]

@retyui not really, the propagation of the changes is going to start today

[egg-r]

Has this been delayed? Rollout progress is showing old image.
https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/releases/macOS-12/20220917/images/macos/macos-12-Readme.md

[slajar]

it is not in the current deployed image. Is this delayed?

[Baza207]

Still waiting as well, but the description does say this:

The propagation will start on September, 26 and take 2-3 days

So they still have a day or so 🙃

[miketimofeev]

@egg-r @slajar @Baza207 I'm afraid this change shifted to next week due to some issue that came up

[Sam-Spencer]

Is the propagation still confirmed to begin today?

[mikhailkoliada]

@Sam-Spencer yes

[romandrahan]

20220929.2 image is already available, while https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/macos/macos-12-Readme.md is still outdated.

[mustafaozhan]

Is there any period of time we should wait until this will be available for all the hosts ? My host is still have Xcode_13.4.1 even though the OS is macOS 12

[mikhailkoliada]

@mustafaozhan propagation is gradual and take 3-4 days, most ETA is Thursday, maybe earlier for you, but not later

[mikhailkoliada]

@romandrahan it is only updated once all the deployments are completed.

[mustafaozhan]

@mikhailkoliada thank you for the clarification!

[mikhailkoliada]

The new image has been deployed and should be available to anyone shortly

[tumata]

Linking to CocoaPods/CocoaPods#11402 for people who may be wondering why all their builds are suddenly failing

[gee-whiz]

Good day, just checking if this was updated to Xcode 14 yet

[mustafaozhan]

@gee-whiz Yeap it is