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Add macOS 15 CI images with Xcode 16.4 #4083
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V8 builds now need at least Xcode 16.4, which requires us to bump macOS to at least 15.3.
See nodejs/node#58069
Example failing canary release: https://ci-release.nodejs.org/job/iojs+release/10961/
@ryanaslett Is this something that can be done? I don't know if we would have to use the newer version for all jobs or if can keep macOS 13 and 15 in parallel and select a version in the Jenkins jobs based on the Node.js version.
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ryanaslett commentedon May 21, 2025
Our current mac infra has 2 intel nodes and 2 arm nodes that are serving both release infra and test infra.
Each node is capable of having 2 VM's at a time on them, for a total of 4 concurrent intel nodes and 4 concurrent arm nodes.
I have set the test infra to never have more than 3 at a time running so that release always has an available node.
If the node version determines which macOS version we test, then it should be relatively simple to do, as we're not trying to test both versions of xcode with the same test (thus not incurring more tests)
ryanaslett commentedon Jun 2, 2025
Update on this:
We need to upgrade the underlying cluster from our current 3.0 to at least 3.2 in order to have Sequoia images available.
Orka is releasing 3.3 on Jun 11, so we can either wait until the new release is out (to avoid having to upgrade again), or, alternately we can ask to upgrade to 3.2 if we need this sooner.
targos commentedon Jun 3, 2025
Waiting SGTM
UlisesGascon commentedon Jun 3, 2025
+1 to wait
[-]Add macOS 15 CI images with Xcode 16[/-][+]Add macOS 15 CI images with Xcode 16.4[/+]mcollina commentedon Aug 2, 2025
@ryanaslett what's the status of this?
ryanaslett commentedon Aug 4, 2025
Hi Matteo, so the Orka cluster is upgraded now, but the images that were running (the macos13 ones) were broken, and required reconstructing.
Thats done, and we're back, and now, with an upgraded cluster, able to move forward with macos15 images with modern XCode builds, however the current priority is to reconstruct some ARM instances as our provider sprung a surprisingly short deadline on us (Friday) when they would be shutting down our Primary ARM hosts.
Once we have some temporary ARM hosts in place, to buy us some time to find a new permanent ARM home, I'll be able to pivot back to creating the new OSX Instances.
ryanaslett commentedon Aug 4, 2025
@mcollina (forgot to @ you)
mcollina commentedon Aug 29, 2025
@ryanaslett ping. This is now urgent, as it's blocking the V8 update for the Node.js 25 release.
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targos commentedon Sep 24, 2025
Looks like SEA tests are failing on x64:
@nodejs/single-executable
joyeecheung commentedon Sep 25, 2025
I think we can just mark SEA on x64 + macOS as "unsupported" if no one ends up fixing it.
ryanaslett commentedon Sep 29, 2025
Status update:
The packer builds are built for the arm release image and its running a v8-canary release build now: https://ci-release.nodejs.org/job/iojs+release/11286/nodes=osx13-release-pkg/console
That build is going to take quite a while to finish, as its freshly populating both ccaches for release.
Same goes for the x64 build: https://ci-release.nodejs.org/job/iojs+release/nodes=osx13-x64-release-tar/11287/console : those have to re-populate the ccache and will take a while.
Once those finish, I'll adjust the tags/labels to indicate that the releases are exclusively being built on osx15 images, and we should be able to land #4154.
Tomorrow I'll push up all the packer changes I've made along with re-documenting the whole stack.
ryanaslett commentedon Sep 30, 2025
The images needed more work.. they were missing some things to make them complete (ssh keys to node-www/ssh configs/and the notarization tool credentials wouldnt properly save. Finally got that worked out.
Theres a build running now that should run closer to the cached speed, and should be much more likely to work: https://ci-release.nodejs.org/job/iojs+release/11293/
ryanaslett commentedon Sep 30, 2025
Hooray!, all three builds ran https://ci-release.nodejs.org/job/iojs+release/11293/nodes=osx13-arm64-release-tar/ , https://ci-release.nodejs.org/job/iojs+release/11293/nodes=osx13-release-pkg/ , https://ci-release.nodejs.org/job/iojs+release/11293/nodes=osx13-x64-release-tar/
(those are macos15 despote the label mismatch)
So, all images are built now, and running.
jenkins: run on macOS 15 from Node.js 25 (#4154)
build: update minimum Xcode version to 16.4
doc: update macOS version used to build releases
ryanaslett commentedon Oct 1, 2025
Documentation for this new management regime is in : #4163 .
Images are built and deployed. Lets open new issues for any new complications that arise.
build: update minimum Xcode version to 16.4
doc: update macOS version used to build releases