GitHub Actions—scheduled jobs maximum frequency is changing

In order to provide a more reliable experience, we’ve set the minimum time period for scheduled runs to 5 minutes. A schedule of * * * * * which would previously run every minute will now run every five minutes.

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GitHub Actions: macOS virtual environment is updating to Catalina and dropping Mojave support

On November 4th, the macOS virtual environment for GitHub Actions will update to Catalina (v10.15), the latest version of macOS X. After the update, jobs using the macos-10.14 virtual environment will not run. Any jobs in your workflows that run on the macos-10.14 virtual environment must migrate to macos-latest.

We’re also making a few changes to the minimum supported versions of Xamarin and Xcode. Changes include:

  • Removed Xamarin.iOS SDK 12.*
  • Removed Xamarin.iOS SDK 11.*
  • Removed Xamarin.iOS SDK 10.*
  • Removed Xamarin.Android SDK 9.*
  • Removed Xamarin.Android SDK 8.*
  • Removed Xamarin.Android SDK 7.*
  • Removed Xamarin.Mac SDK – 5.*
  • Removed Xamarin.Mac SDK – 4.*
  • Removed Xamarin.Mac SDK – 3.*
  • Removed Xcode 10.*
  • Removed Xcode 9.*

To learn more about the different virtual environments and included software, please read Virtual Environments for GitHub Actions. Please contact GitHub Support if you run into any problems or need help.

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GitHub Actions – Windows Server 2016 virtual environment will be removed January 2020

The Windows Server 2016 virtual environment will be removed from GitHub Actions in January 2020. You will need to update your workflow files to run on windows-latest which will run on the Windows Server 2019 environment instead. Please leave feedback and questions in the actions/virtual-environments repository.

Updated 12/10: The deprecation date has been moved from December 3, 2019 to January 2020.
Updated 11/7: The deprecation date has been moved from November 7, 2019 to December 3, 2019.

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