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Azure Pipelines' GitHub-hosted agents go GA, and your pool label now spends money

Microsoft has made GitHub-hosted agents with pay-as-you-go pricing generally available in Azure Pipelines, billing per minute by agent SKU instead of pre-purchased parallel jobs. macOS SKUs are GA; Linux and Windows SKUs are in public preview.

Oct 10, 2026 · Tomás Vega Runners & infrastructure

Xcode 27 runner image on GitHub-hosted macOS moves to macOS 27

GitHub bumped the operating system underneath its public-preview Xcode 27 runner image from macOS 26 to macOS 27, per the September 10 changelog. The runner labels stay the same, so the OS shift lands on the next job that requests them, with no workflow edit.

Sep 11, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Runners & infrastructure

Azure Pipelines opens an arm64 macOS preview with Xcode 27 in the pay-as-you-go pool

Microsoft added Apple Silicon macOS agents carrying Xcode 27 to Azure DevOps as a public preview, delivered through the pay-as-you-go GitHub-hosted Agents pool. For iOS and macOS pipelines that have been running Xcode on Rosetta-under-Intel agents, the native arm64 path is finally in reach on a Microsoft-hosted fleet.

Aug 19, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Runners & infrastructure

Xcode 27 lands on GitHub-hosted runners, and the naming rule quietly changed

GitHub Actions added an Xcode 27 image in public preview on its arm64 macOS runners. The bigger shift is buried in the changelog: images are now keyed to the Xcode major version instead of the OS, one Xcode per image.

Jul 19, 2026 · Priya Nair