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macos runners covers the GitHub Actions runner images that macOS, iOS, and cross-platform teams rely on for continuous integration and signed builds. The tagged content focuses on lifecycle changes for these hosted runners, including GitHub's announced retirement of the macOS 14 (Sonoma) runner image on November 2, 2026, and the scheduled brownout windows in October that deliberately fail jobs still pinned to macos-14. It is a practical migration topic for developers and release engineers who need to update workflow files before pipelines break, rather than a security or macOS operating system issue.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    GitHub Actions macOS 14 Runner Retirement: Brownout Dates and Migration Guide

    If any of your CI pipelines still say runs-on: macos-14, you have about a month to change that. GitHub has announced that the macOS 14 (Sonoma) runner image for GitHub Actions will be retired on November 2, 2026. Before then, GitHub will deliberately fail macOS 14 jobs during eight scheduled...