Deprecation of the macOS-12 Hosted Pipeline Image

Oct 1, 2024Eric van Wijk

SummaryAI, from the source post

This post announces the deprecation of the `macOS-12` hosted pipeline image in Azure DevOps. It details the timeline for deprecation, including brownout periods where jobs using this image will temporarily fail. Users are instructed to update their pipelines to use `macOS-latest`, `macOS-13`, or `macOS-14`. The `macos-latest` image is now updated to use `macOS-14` (Sonoma).

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