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[macOS] GCC 11 will be removed from all macOS images on August 12 #10213

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Breaking changes

GCC 11 will be removed from all macOS images.

Target date

Image deployment is starting on August 12 and will take 3-4 days.

The motivation for the changes

As of the software support policy only 3 latest versions of GCC are supported i.e., GCC 12, 13 and 14.

Possible impact

If your builds depend on gcc@11 they can be broken.

Platforms affected

  • Azure DevOps
  • GitHub Actions

Runner images affected

  • Ubuntu 20.04
  • Ubuntu 22.04
  • Ubuntu 24.04
  • macOS 12
  • macOS 13
  • macOS 13 Arm64
  • macOS 14
  • macOS 14 Arm64
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2022

Mitigation ways

gcc@11 still may be installed in runtime by calling the brew install gcc@11 command.

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