MacOS 12 ("Monterey") End of Support

[ashnaga]

MacOS 12 ("Monterey") reached end of life according to this - https://endoflife.date/macos Also, MacOS 12 ("Monterey") received last update on July 29, 2024. Mac official one

This issue is created to track progress to remove support for MacOS 12 ("Monterey") from .NET 6.0 and .NET 8.0.

Repos team to update:

• [ ] Remove installers for the outdated distro
• [ ] Remove build support
• [ ] Remove test assets

Infrastructure Team Accountabilities/Deliverables:

• [ ] Notification to NetCore Engineering Partners
• [ ] Remove the outdated version from the hardware pool

Release Team

• [ ] Send Notification to every team in .NET for upcoming addition
• [ ] Supported OS content gets updated on GitHub and marketing sites.
• [ ] Update release manifest files.
• [ ] Docker files which are used for install testing needs to be updated.

Document updates:

• [ ] Add/Remove OS prerequisites to the dependencies document
• [x] Update distro install page

[xtqqczze]

macOS 12 ("Monterey") reached end-of-life on 2024-09-16

[adegeo]

@ashnaga This was completed 2 weeks ago for the .NET Docs page. (I checked the Update distro install page now) https://github.com/dotnet/docs/pull/43045

[sykhro]

Pulling an OS from the build matrix of something tagged "Long-Term Support" doesn't feel particularly long term supported... does this only apply to 8.0.11?

[xtqqczze]

@sykhro Please see .NET Supported OS Policy § Lifecycle Policy.