Is there any planned release date for macos-26-arm64 on 'macOS-latest' VM image?

[KristofKuli]

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Hi!

One of our customer has the following concern:

We have a ios project using macOS-latest for building and publishing by azure devops pipeline which is Sequoia 15 mac OS using xCode 18.

But since April 2026, all iOS and iPadOS apps must be built with the iOS 26 SDK or later, included in Xcode 26 or later, in order to be uploaded to App Store Connect or submitted for distribution.

Can we have macOS-26 (https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/macos/macos-26-arm64-Readme.md) in devOps?

Can you please let us know, if there's any release date?

Thanks,
Kristof

[Diogenes28]

Hello,

macOS-26 ARM64 is available as a beta/public preview image now.

There’s no announced planned date yet for when it will become the macos-latest GA image on GitHub Actions.

[ImElk]

At this time, there is no announced release date for when macOS-26-arm64 will become the default macos-latest image.

The macOS-26 ARM64 runner is available in preview, and you can explicitly target it in pipelines by setting runs-on: macos-26. However, promotion to macos-latest happens only after stability and tooling (Xcode, SDKs) are fully validated.

For now, to meet the iOS 26 / Xcode 26 requirement, update your pipeline to explicitly use macos-26 rather than relying on macos-latest.

Any changes to the default alias will be announced via GitHub Actions runner image release notes.

Really hope that answered your question!

[KristofKuli]

Hi All,

Thank you for the answers.

Our customer tried using macOS-26 image, but the pipeline failed with the below error:
##[error]No image label found to route agent pool Azure Pipelines.
Pool: Azure Pipelines
Image: macOS-26

Is this image not available in Azure Pipelines pool?

[KristofKuli]

Hi All,

Could you please give us an update?

Thanks,
Kristof

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