[macOS] Default Xcode on macOS 15 Sequoia will be set to Xcode 16.4 on August, 25 #12751
Description
Breaking changes
Default Xcode will be changed to 16.4 on macOS 15 Sequoia.
Target date
The propagation will start on August, 25 and take 2-4 days
The motivation for the changes
New minor Xcode releases for this version are no longer expected; the most popular among users is the latest available version of the IDE. We would like to provide images with the latest stable updates as default ones and removed old patch version as per our guidelines.
Possible impact
If you use the default Xcode version and your project is not compatible with Xcode 16.0 your build can be broken.
Platforms affected
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub Actions
Runner images affected
- Ubuntu 22.04
- Ubuntu 24.04
- macOS 13
- macOS 13 Arm64
- macOS 14
- macOS 14 Arm64
- macOS 15
- macOS 15 Arm64
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2022
- Windows Server 2025
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 as well as maxim-lobanov/setup-xcode action:
sudo xcode-select -s "/Applications/Xcode_16.app"The list of all available Xcode versions can be found in the image documentation, for example: macos-15.