{"id":69539,"date":"2024-10-01T04:44:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T12:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=69539"},"modified":"2024-12-02T08:13:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T16:13:17","slug":"upcoming-deprecation-of-macos-12-hosted-pipeline-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/upcoming-deprecation-of-macos-12-hosted-pipeline-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Deprecation of the macOS-12 Hosted Pipeline Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update: the retirement date of macOS-12 has been moved to January 8.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Azure DevOps is starting the deprecation process for the <code>macOS-12<\/code> (Monterey) <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/azure\/devops\/pipelines\/agents\/hosted?view=azure-devops&amp;tabs=yaml#software\">hosted pilelines image<\/a>. While the image is being deprecated, you may experience longer queue times during peak usage hours. Deprecation will begin on October 7 and the image will be fully unsupported by January 8, 2025. Pipeline jobs using the <code>macOS-12<\/code> image label should be updated to use <code>macOS-latest<\/code>, <code>macOS-13<\/code> or <code>macOS-14<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>To raise awareness of the upcoming removal, we will temporarily fail jobs using <code>macOS-12<\/code>. Pipeline jobs that are scheduled to run during the brownout periods will fail. The brownouts are scheduled for the following dates and times:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>November 4, 14:00 UTC &#8211; November 5, 00:00 UTC<\/li>\n<li>November 11, 14:00 UTC &#8211; November 12, 00:00 UTC<\/li>\n<li>November 18, 14:00 UTC &#8211; November 19, 00:00 UTC<\/li>\n<li>November 25, 14:00 UTC &#8211; November 26, 00:00 UTC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <code>macos-latest<\/code> Hosted pipelines agent image now uses <code>macOS-14<\/code> (Sonoma).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: the retirement date of macOS-12 has been moved to January 8. Azure DevOps is starting the deprecation process for the macOS-12 (Monterey) hosted pilelines image. While the image is being deprecated, you may experience longer queue times during peak usage hours. Deprecation will begin on October 7 and the image will be fully unsupported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26231,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ci"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Update: the retirement date of macOS-12 has been moved to January 8. Azure DevOps is starting the deprecation process for the macOS-12 (Monterey) hosted pilelines image. While the image is being deprecated, you may experience longer queue times during peak usage hours. Deprecation will begin on October 7 and the image will be fully unsupported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}