[macOS] Default Xcode on Monterey image will be set to Xcode 13.3 on April, 4

[miketimofeev]

Breaking changes

Default Xcode will be changed to 13.3 on macOS 12.3 Monterey. Xamarin bundle will also be changed to the latest one that supports Xcode 13.3

Target date

Update propagation will start on April, 4 and will take 3-4 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 13.3 your build can be broken.
If your project is not compatible with the latest Xamarin bundle it can be broken.

Virtual environments affected

• Ubuntu 18.04
• Ubuntu 20.04
• macOS 10.15
• macOS 11
• macOS 12
• Windows Server 2016
• 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_13.2.1.app"

The list of all available Xcode versions can be found in the image documentation

You can also select any Xamarin version by running

XAMARIN_SDK=6_12_7
$VM_ASSETS/select-xamarin-sdk.sh $XAMARIN_SDK

The list of all available Xamarin bundles can be found in the image documentation

[eschwieb]

That should be "macOS 12.3 Monterey" in the first line.

[mrgrauel]

Is there a problem with the upgrade? All our jobs which should run on macos-12 are queued since yesterday.

Requested labels: macos-12
Job defined at: ...path...
Waiting for a runner to pick up this job...

[miketimofeev]

@mrgrauel we're investigating it at the moment

[eseay]

@mrgrauel we're investigating it at the moment

@mrgrauel Any update here? We're trying to figure out how to proceed since all of our workflows are hard-blocked.

[miketimofeev]

@mrgrauel @eseay could you try running new ones? The issue should be fixed

[eseay]

@miketimofeev Looks like we're back online. Thanks! Will keep you posted if things change.

[mrgrauel]

@miketimofeev looks good 👍 Thank you

[james-barker-sedgwick]

This issue still occurs for the project I am working on.

Error

##[warning]An image label with the label macOS-12 does not exist.
,##[error]The remote provider was unable to process the request.
Pool: [Azure Pipelines](https://dev.azure.com/***/***/_settings/agentqueues?poolId=&queueId=***)
Image: macOS-12
Started: 2022-04-06 at 3:33 PM CDT

Pipline YAML

- job: iOS
  pool:
      vmImage: 'macOS-12'

[niehusstaab]

Pipline YAML

- job: iOS
  pool:
      vmImage: 'macOS-12'

I could be wrong, but I think you've got a typo: should be macos-12 not macOS-12

[james-barker-sedgwick]

We tried that as well. Same issue.

[miketimofeev]

@james-barker-sedgwick Azure DevOps is not provisioned with macOS-12 yet.

[foxsin10]

Any update? 5338 merged, but action still will be queued when running on macos-12.

[miketimofeev]

@foxsin10 have you submitted the access request?

[foxsin10]

@miketimofeev thanks for responding.
Our GitHub Action will be queued, if set the runs-on to macos-12 as @mrgrauel mentioned.
As for the access request, if i need to submit an access request to use macos-12, could you tell me how, thanks.

[miketimofeev]

@foxsin10 Please complete this form In order to request access to the macOS 12 private beta. Once your request has been reviewed, we'll send an email confirming access has been provided with instructions for how to utilize the image in your workflows.

[miketimofeev]

The changes are now deployed

[bnidevs]

@miketimofeev what's the turnaround time on filling out the form? just curious, thanks.

[jonas-simkus-mw]

Any reason why macos-12 not mentioned in here https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments ?
Maybe it's not supported yet?
We had massive code changes, and all was done on Xcode 13.3, which seems to only be available on macos-12 env. And we can't revert to Xcode 13.2.x because it's very buggy and produces issues in production.
And the reason Xcode 13.3 builds can not be so easily reverted to any earlier versions seems to be something with

Resolve Package Graph
Package.resolved file is corrupted or malformed; 
fix or delete the file to continue: unsupported schema version 2 
xcodebuild: error: Could not resolve package dependencies: ...

This situation makes us hit a brick wall..

[miketimofeev]

@bnidevs we onboard users weekly.
@jonas-simkus-mw we do not mention the image until it is in private preview.

[bnidevs]

thank you @miketimofeev

[mattiacantalu]

@bnidevs we onboard users weekly. @jonas-simkus-mw we do not mention the image until it is in private preview.

Do you have an ETA for the public release?