Macos 14 docs out of date

[dingwilson]

Description

/Applications/Xcode_16_beta_6.app no longer exists for macos-14 runtime (https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/macos/macos-14-Readme.md)

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions - Standard Runners
• GitHub Actions - Larger Runners

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

Image version and build link

20240911.3

Is it regression?

yes, 20240903.5

Expected behavior

error: missing DEVELOPER_DIR path: /Applications/Xcode_16_beta_6.app/Contents/Developer

Actual behavior

DEVELOPER_DIR path should exist - /Applications/Xcode_16_beta_6.app/Contents/Developer

Repro steps

create github action and ENV var DEVELOPER_DIR="/Applications/Xcode_16_beta_6.app/Contents/Developer"

[sarathrajsrinivasan]

Hi @dingwilson ,

From Image 20240911.3, we have replaced Xcode 16.0 Beta 6 with Xcode 16 Release candidate (RC) for macOS14-arm64.

This is the updated path now: /Applications/Xcode_16_Release_Candidate.app

[dingwilson]

Hi @sarathrajsrinivasan - I tried that and go this:

error: missing DEVELOPER_DIR path: /Applications/Xcode_16_Release_Candidate.app/Contents/Developer

[dingwilson]

Also this issue is still relevant right? The docs remain out of date as far as I can tell.

[sarathrajsrinivasan]

Our deployment for macOS14-arm64 is still in progress. The document will be updated only when the deployment for all the regions complete.

[erik-bershel]

This is not an issue, the documentation that placed in the repository reflects only the current state of the images without taking into account the update process - it is not possible to reflect in human-readable format. When updating an image, we specify its status here and open a pull request with incoming changes here, also we have pre-release mechanism for the images in updating state that could be tracked here. You can see the list of packages that were installed on the runner in the Runner Image section of the Set up job step. For example:

Unfortunately, we cannot simultaneously provide two versions of the package for one major.minor Xcode release. To ensure more convenient work, we provide a symlink mechanism. You can access Xcode-16.0-whatever-there-was-version using the symlink /Applications/Xcode_16.0.app

[dingwilson]

I see - didn't know about the symlink! Will give that a try thanks!

[erik-bershel]

didn't know about the symlink

And this is the issue 😄 , but we are working on it here: #10568