Actions new ship 🚢 - macOS 14 (Sonoma) and the new M1 macOS runner

[Akash1134]

We're excited to announce the launch of a new M1 macOS runner and introducing the new M1 macOS runner available to open source!

The all new macOS 14 (Sonoma) is now available 💯

This runner is available for all plans, free in public repositories, and eligible to consume included free plan minutes in private repositories. The new runner executes Actions workflows with a 3 vCPU, 7 GB RAM, and 14 GB of storage VM, which provides the latest Mac hardware Actions has to offer. The new runner operates exclusively on macOS 14 and to use it, simply update the runs-on key in your YAML workflow file to macos-14.

Introducing the new M1 macOS runner available to open source! 🚀

We are also making the macOS 14 runner image available to GitHub hosted runners. Workflows executed on this image will run exclusively on the 3 vCPU M1 runner announced earlier today. To use the runner, simply update the runs-on: key in your YAML workflow file to macos-14, macos-14-xlarge, or macos-14-large.

Note: The macOS 12 runner image will remain latest until migration of the latest YAML workflow label to macOS 14 in Q2 FY24 (April – June 2024). While macOS 13 is now generally available under the macos-13 label, this image will not be migrated to latest. Following this announcement, macOS 11 runner image will begin deprecation immediately with retirement expected to complete by June 2024.

The full list of software available for all macOS runner images can be found here. If there is software you require that is not installed on the image, please create an issue in the runner-images repository.

[hfhbd]

Thank you! My build time is cut in half now. I hope many missing (native) arm binaries will be finally published.

[Akash1134]

Thanks for sharing @hfhbd Our product team would love to hear about this. We'll share your feedback around ARM binaries with them. ❤️

[xenshehz]

Firstly, I'd really like to thank Github for making M1 macOS runners available! They are incredibly useful!

For some reason, ObjectCapture API is not supported on macos-14

Here is the current error I receive:

Object Capture is not available on this computer.
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

According to Apple's documentation this API should be included in macOS >= 12.0 SDK. Checking the runner readme for M1 (https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/macos/macos-14-arm64-Readme.md), it looks like it should be supported?

Any help in getting Object Capture API to work on macOS runners would be wonderful! Also, if this is not the right place to post this - please free to move it.

[geriux]

This is awesome! 🎉 Similar to the above, I tried to use this in this PR and I encountered:

lerna ERR! - /Users/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/node_modules/lerna/dist/cli.js
lerna ERR!     at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1144:15)
lerna ERR!     at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:985:27)
lerna ERR!     at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1235:19)
lerna ERR!     at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:176:18)
lerna ERR!     at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/runner/work/gutenberg/gutenberg/node_modules/nx/src/native/index.js:135:29)
lerna ERR!     at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1376:14)
lerna ERR!     at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1435:10)
lerna ERR!     at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1207:32)
lerna ERR!     at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1023:12)
lerna ERR! lerna Cannot find module '@nx/nx-darwin-arm64'
lerna ERR! lerna Require stack:

While installing the npm dependencies.

[boozook]

Time-to-time I'm getting errors about missed some pre-installed executable binaries. Totally strange behaviour!
This for example.

[vinayhegde1990]

@Akash1134 based on the full list mentioned in your comment - could you please confirm if the macos-13-arm64 tag can be used to have a runner with the M1 architecture and MacOS v13.x.x in GitHub Actions workflows on the Free Pricing Plan?

[outofcontrol]

When attempting to use macos-14-large on a Free plan at GitHub, with a public repository, we are seeing this error:

The job was not started because recent account payments have failed or your spending limit needs to be increased. Please check the 'Billing & plans' section in your settings.

Are Beta images not included in Free plans?

[hfhbd]

macos-14 is free, macos-14-large using more CPUs is not.

[outofcontrol]

Thank you @hfhbd. Of course now that you have answered, I clearly see the big banner that states "Larger runners are only available for organizations and enterprises using the GitHub Team or GitHub Enterprise Cloud plans."