+1 to dropping macOS Intel support. I think we can still allow source builds on Intel macOS on a best-effort basis, but without CI coverage or any guarantee that they will continue to work.
One question is how we want to handle macOS Intel binaries going forward, as without CI coverage they may eventually break as well. *Regards,* *Rossi SUN* On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 16:52 Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > As discussed on the PR/issue, I'm in favor of dropping MacOS x86 on the CI > (it will be hard to maintain longer). > > Regards > JB > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 10:36 AM Raúl Cumplido <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > We have started finding several issues [1], [2] on some of the Arrow > > repositories due to Homebrew stopping their builds (and support) for > > macOS Intel bottles [3]. > > > > macOS has stopped supporting macOS Intel on their latest (macos-27) > > release. > > > > I'd like to propose dropping support for macOS Intel as we can't test > > some of the setups anymore on our CI. > > > > Regards, > > Raúl > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow-java/pull/1306 > > [2] https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/51402 > > [3] https://docs.brew.sh/Support-Tiers#future-macos-support > > >
