[macOS] Default Xcode on Big Sur image will be set to Xcode 13.0 on October, 18

[miketimofeev]

Breaking changes

Default Xcode will be changed to 13.0 on macOS 11 Big Sur.

Target date

Update propagation will start on October, 18 and will take 2-3 days.

The motivation for the changes

We would like to provide images with the latest stable updates as default ones.

Possible impact

If you use the default Xcode version and your project is not compatible with Xcode 13.0 your build can be broken.

Virtual environments affected

• Ubuntu 16.04
• Ubuntu 18.04
• Ubuntu 20.04
• macOS 10.15
• macOS 11
• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

Mitigation ways

Please consider switching Xcode in runtime to the version that you need to build an app.
The following snippet can be used to switch Xcode:

sudo xcode-select -s "/Applications/Xcode_12.5.1.app"

The list of all available Xcode versions can be found in the image documentation

[dibir-magomedsaygitov]

The PR has been merged. Image with the default version of Xcode set to 13.0 should be available with the next week's image rollout. I'll post an update message.

[prashanthramakrishnan]

Do you have any update if this now rolled out and live for everyone?

[miketimofeev]

@prashanthramakrishnan the rollout just started and will take 2-3 days.

[miketimofeev]

The image has been deployed.