Hello, Xcode 26 RC is available . When would it be available in CircleCI? Thanks.

+1. Could we please get an update of some sort of timeline when CircleCI will support Xcode 26?

Working on it right now. Target is EOW. Apologies for the delay.

Given that MacOS complications were the source of the delay last time CircleCI was unable to produce an updated Xcode image - does the jump from MacOS 15.5 to 15.6 have something to do with the delay here? Would CircleCI be willing to consider pursuing MacOS updates separately from Xcode, with an e…

Looks like the 26 final release image just got deployed (right in the middle of one of my workflow runs). Ruby version has again been bumped (now 3.4.6). Confirmed via SSH: VM-923cfc5335:~ distiller$ xcodebuild -version Xcode 26.0 Build version 17A324

I’m finding jobs are either queuing for a long time or spending many minutes on the “Preparing environment” step - is this just a consequence of the new images rolling out?

looking into preparing environment thing, will get back to you soon

@lukeredpath it’s a function of this being a new image. the underlying infra that scales out machines takes a little bit of time to “learn” the new “SKU” (image + execution env combo) it should get better over time especially as more users start leveraging the new image. message here if it still pe…

Hello. Xcode 26 GA has been released. The job queue times have also returned back to normal following a new image release as Sebastian has described. Changelog - Xcode 26 GA

I’m still seeing long environment preparation times here.

@lukeredpath looking into prep times. Unrelated to the environment preparation times mentioned above, we’ve also seen reports from our users hitting an OS issue (outlined here ) with XCode 26 where the device id is changing across VMs. We’ve opened a support ticket with Apple and encourage you to do…

Xcode 26 RC

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@sebastian-lerner Could this be related to?

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