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Description of Change

  • Default the official pipeline's MacOSPool to AcesShared with ImageOverride -equals ACES_VM_SharedPool_GoldenGate, retaining os: macOS and caller-supplied pool overrides.
  • Set skipXcode: true in the official provisioning call to use the image-provided selected Xcode. Leave skipProvisioning, Windows settings, shared HostedMacImage defaults, and other pipeline consumers unchanged.
  • Add Pester regression coverage for pool selection, absence of hosted fallback, pool override pass-through to the macOS pack job, shared defaults, and Xcode provisioning. Preserve the existing OneLoc mirror-branch assertion.

Validation: All 7 tests in eng/pipelines/ci-official.Tests.ps1 pass. Against the old configuration, the 3 change-specific tests fail and the 4 preservation tests pass. YAML and PowerShell syntax checks and git diff --check pass.

Source evidence: Internal build 3086407 (20260924.5, source 86c2ae315db0128258240d3f60b1db13dc735258) succeeded, including Pack macOS and Pack Windows. Its supplied pool parameters matched the committed defaults semantically. This is evidence for the source configuration, not this PR's CI or validation of release-branch-only stages.

Issues Fixed

N/A — official-build configuration update targeting release/11.0.1xx-rc2.

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🔵 Needs a closer look

Final human review is recommended for the official build pipeline changes.

Review effort: Lite
Findings: None

What changed in this PR

Updates official macOS builds to use the GoldenGate AcesShared pool and image-selected Xcode, with regression coverage.

Changes:

  • Updates macOS pool and image settings.
  • Skips Xcode provisioning.
  • Adds regression tests for routing and preserved behavior.
File Description
eng/​pipelines/​ci-official.yml Configures GoldenGate macOS builds and skips Xcode provisioning.
eng/​pipelines/​ci-official.Tests.ps1 Adds regression coverage for pipeline behavior.

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### Description of Change

**Temporary RC2 workaround:** use the GoldenGate image from #38852 until
the standard macOS images provide Xcode compatible with the pinned Apple
SDK. Explicit source comments identify the workaround and its removal
condition in all three pipeline entry points and the shared
configuration.

All public and internal macOS pool defaults are aligned:

| Pipeline | macOS coverage |
|---|---|
| `maui-pr` (`ci.yml`) | Build, pack, and integration pool defaults |
| `maui-pr-uitests` (`ci-uitests.yml`) | Shared app builds, iOS UI runs,
and MacCatalyst UI runs |
| `maui-pr-devicetests` (`ci-device-tests.yml`) | Mono/CoreCLR app
builds and all macOS pool defaults |

- Use `AcesShared` with `ImageOverride -equals $(AcesMacImageOverride)`
throughout these macOS defaults. Select `ACES_VM_SharedPool_GoldenGate`
once in `common/variables.yml`, independently of Azure Pipelines'
hosted-image setting. No exact Xcode application paths are embedded in
pipeline demands.
- Accept the image-selected Xcode only when its reported major/minor
version matches `$(XCODE)`. This handles GoldenGate's nonstandard
prerelease bundle name while retaining the existing named-bundle
fallback and explicit incompatible-version failure. The fast path is
also marked temporary.
- Preserve simulator provisioning. Unlike the official pack-only job in
#38852, iOS UI-test jobs need simulator setup; copying `skipXcode: true`
would suppress it.
- Retain caller-supplied pool overrides, SDK/Xcode version pins, test
filters, Helix execution queues, and Windows/Android-Linux settings. The
separate official-pipeline change in #38852 is not modified here.
- Remove `eng/pipelines/ci.Tests.ps1`. No pipeline configuration tests
are added.

### Failure evidence

The old Aces Tahoe image contains Xcode 26.x, while RC2 requires Xcode
27:

- [UI build
1609520](https://dev.azure.com/dnceng-public/public/_build/results?buildId=1609520&view=logs):
`Required Xcode 27.0 is not installed on this agent`; installed versions
stop at 26.6.
- [Device build
1609521](https://dev.azure.com/dnceng-public/public/_build/results?buildId=1609521&view=logs):
the same failure in both Mono and CoreCLR app builds.
- [UI build
1607914](https://dev.azure.com/dnceng-public/public/_build/results?buildId=1607914&view=results)
also failed during iOS 27 simulator provisioning. Runtime provisioning
safeguards remain enabled.

### Validation

YAML parsing, configuration inspection of all 14 macOS pool defaults,
Bash syntax checks, and `git diff --check` pass. Full Azure DevOps
validation of the latest revision is pending.

### Issues Fixed

N/A — temporary RC2 CI provisioning workaround based on the linked
builds. Unrelated device-test assertion failures are outside this PR's
scope.

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### Description of Change

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Intentionally targets **net11.0**, based on
`8d04ca676fc51a8f940f65dfbec9a8085fa13615`, rather than main or RC2.
Ports the Apple-specific Xcode 27 adoption from `release/11.0.1xx-rc2`
without changing net11's SDK, runtime, Android, Extensions, or Arcade
pins.

- Pin all four .NET 11 Apple SDKs to **27.0.12211-net11-rc.2** from
macios commit `35d8bf5a42cd71edf4e2700b1e45f6c4b65f3fbe` (BAR 334217,
RC2 channel), and update current/default iOS, tvOS, Mac Catalyst and
macOS platform TFMs to 27.0.
- Align the .NET 10 Apple compatibility SDKs to **26.5.10322**, required
by all four selected .NET 11 workload manifests; update their
coherent-parent names and public feed. This is required manifest
alignment, not an unrelated .NET 10 upgrade.
- Raise managed and native iOS deployment minimums to **15.0**. Native
iOS 12 / Catalyst's mapped macOS 10.15 targets are rejected by Xcode 27.
The managed Catalyst minimum remains 17.0; templates already use iOS 15
/ Catalyst 17.
- Select **GoldenGate / Xcode 27** for public and internal Apple
framework, pack, integration, UI-app, device-app and official
compilation. Continue executing prebuilt iOS UI-test apps on **Tahoe /
Xcode 26.5**, and Catalyst UI tests on **macOS 14**.
- Remove the obsolete repository-wide Xcode 26.2/26.3 validation bypass
and unconditional `eng/Build.props` overrides. Normal builds now let the
workload validate Xcode; explicit test/review-runner overrides remain
available.
- Document build requirements and remaining image limitations in
`docs/DevelopmentTips.md`.

**Evidence and retained workarounds**

The RC2 adoption/CI changes are in #38787, #38788, #38853, #38855 and
#38892. #38806 deliberately omitted Apple 27 / minimum-version / pool
changes when forward-porting to net11; this supplies that missing Apple
configuration. Icon Composer changes from #38984 are already on net11
and are not duplicated.

- Keep the GoldenGate compilation fallback: standard Azure hosted macOS
26 currently provides only Xcode 26.0–26.6. The Xcode 27 preview pool is
not a proven standard Azure-hosted replacement; no paid pool is
introduced. [Azure image
availability](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/hosted?view=azure-devops),
[Xcode 27 image
discussion](actions/runner-images#14404 (comment)).
- Keep the Appium build/execution split: GoldenGate previously lacked
the required iOS 18.5 runtime / usable Simulator UI and failed Mac2
startup; corrected RC2 build 1611447 passed all 29 iOS jobs. Current RC2
UI failures occur during package restore and do not establish that
GoldenGate UI execution is fixed. macOS 14 retires November 2, 2026; its
replacement requires separate Mac2 validation.
- Keep simulator provisioning, architecture-specific downloads, bounded
recovery and explicit failure when required Xcode is missing. Do not
copy #38852's unmerged `skipXcode: true` shortcut.
- **Do not port** GoldenGate's prerelease selected-Xcode fast path: [RC2
build
1623906](https://dev.azure.com/dnceng-public/public/_build/results?buildId=1623906),
at RC2 HEAD `d32b79928709cf53b671336dabd0caef5a679fc2`, succeeded with
`/Applications/Xcode_27.app`, which the existing named fallback already
finds. This is source-configuration evidence, not validation of this PR.
- Do not copy later RC2 internal-SDK credentials, public-SDK fallbacks,
or internal feeds. They address different SDK/runtime pins. Retain
existing `TargetsCurrent`, local runner overrides and PowerShell
startup/recovery safeguards because Xcode 27 does not prove their
underlying issues resolved. The dedicated Copilot-review pipeline
retains its own older-branch overrides; it is not the standard net11
build lane.

**Validation**

- `.dotnet/dotnet build Microsoft.Maui.BuildTasks.slnf -c Release
-p:BuildTaskOnlyBuild=true -p:CI=true --verbosity quiet` — **passed**, 0
warnings / 0 errors, using the unchanged pinned SDK
`11.0.100-rtm.26480.113` in this worktree. This validates build
prerequisites, not Apple 27 app compilation.
- `DEVELOPER_DIR=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer xcodebuild
-project
src/Core/AppleNative/PlatformInterop/MauiPlatformInterop.xcodeproj
-scheme MauiPlatformInterop -configuration Release -sdk iphonesimulator
-destination 'generic/platform=iOS Simulator' -derivedDataPath
artifacts/native-validation CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED=NO build` — **passed**,
arm64 and x86_64 simulator framework compilation at iOS 15.0, using
installed **Xcode 26.6**, not Xcode 27. No simulator/app/test runner was
launched.
- `plutil -lint
src/Core/AppleNative/PlatformInterop/MauiPlatformInterop.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj`
and `git diff --check` — **passed**. Python `yaml.safe_load` / XML
parsing — **passed** for all changed pipeline and XML configuration
files. No pipeline tests were added.
- `.dotnet/dotnet msbuild Directory.Build.props -nologo
-getProperty:MauiPlatforms,MauiGraphicsPlatforms,IosTargetFrameworkVersionSdkDefault,MacCatalystTargetFrameworkVersionSdkDefault,ValidateXcodeVersion,TargetsCurrent`
— **passed**; current Apple TFMs resolve to 27.0 and the blanket
validation bypass is absent. Evaluating `eng/Versions.props` confirms
unchanged SDK/runtime/Android pins and all four Apple 27 pins.
- Downloaded and inspected all four exact Apple workload manifest
packages from the public dotnet11 feed — **passed**, confirming the .NET
10 compatibility SDK requirement is 26.5.10322.
- `dotnet format Microsoft.Maui.sln --no-restore --exclude Templates/src
--exclude-diagnostics CA1822` — attempted but **incomplete**: missing
restored references/workloads. Stopped it and removed its unrelated
generated formatting edits; no C# source changes are included.
- Initial unrestricted build-task attempts were blocked by missing
assets / Apple workloads. Repository bootstrap installed the exact
pinned SDK; full workload provisioning was stopped in favor of the
successful CI build-task-only command above.

Remote CI results for commit `e7a941cd121fff58bcd30892bbcf29e18882ac55`
(checked October 8, 2026):

- [maui-pr
1628491](https://dev.azure.com/dnceng-public/public/_build/results?buildId=1628491)
— **completed, failed overall**. Apple compilation, macOS pack and main
integration validation passed; the macOS build selected
`/Applications/Xcode_27.app`. The only failing main-pipeline task was
the Helix monitor: Windows Debug
`SkiaSharpSvgToolsTests.Resize.BasicNoScaleReturnsOriginalSize` failed
deleting a locked temporary file in `Resize.Dispose()`. This is a
**confirmed identical historical cleanup failure predating this PR**,
not evidence of an Xcode-adoption regression: September 29 [build
1616449](https://dev.azure.com/dnceng-public/public/_build/results?buildId=1616449),
the **net11.0-targeted #38984 merge build** (`refs/pull/38984/merge`,
not a direct `refs/heads/net11.0` baseline run), failed the same test in
Windows Release with the same `IOException` and `FileSystem.DeleteFile`
→ `Resize.Dispose()` line-25 stack; only the temporary filename differs.
See its actual [Helix
console](https://helixr1107v0xdeko0k025g8.blob.core.windows.net/dotnet-maui-refs-pull-38984-merge-c211216b883342c6ae/Microsoft.Maui.Resizetizer.UnitTests.dll/1/console.30a6023e.log?helixlogtype=result)
and [test-result
XML](https://helixr1107v0xdeko0k025g8.blob.core.windows.net/dotnet-maui-refs-pull-38984-merge-c211216b883342c6ae/Microsoft.Maui.Resizetizer.UnitTests.dll/1/testResults.xml?helixlogtype=result).
The fixture is byte-identical between exact base `8d04ca676f` and PR
head `e7a941cd12` (blob `a41ebe6e87b3809f952b51f98e594bf5faf2fe25`);
Skia/runtime pins and Windows execution pools are unchanged, and the
relevant configuration changes are Apple-specific. Together, this
supports **no causal link to Xcode adoption**. The latest exact-base
[net11.0 build
1628290](https://dev.azure.com/dnceng-public/public/_build/results?buildId=1628290)
passed; that does not negate the verified earlier occurrence. No cleanup
fix or rerun is included.
- [maui-pr-devicetests
1628492](https://dev.azure.com/dnceng-public/public/_build/results?buildId=1628492)
— **completed, succeeded**, including Mono/CoreCLR device-app
compilation. Cross-checked all nine Helix jobs: 71 terminal work items,
zero failing exits and no work items still running; this is a work-item
count, not a test-case count.
- [maui-pr-uitests
1628493](https://dev.azure.com/dnceng-public/public/_build/results?buildId=1628493)
— **completed, failed overall** at 21:42 UTC. UI-app compilation and the
complete **iOS CoreCLR UI stage passed**. The five failed/canceled
execution legs are MacCatalyst Layout, Navigation and Shell; Windows
Shell; and Android SafeAreaEdges. MacCatalyst Shell was canceled after
three hours during its retry, so its complete execution coverage remains
**unverified**, not passed.
- **Baseline-matched UI failures:** MacCatalyst `Issue59172RecoveryTest`
timeout matches [net11.0 build
1625634](https://dev.azure.com/dnceng-public/public/_build/results?buildId=1625634).
MacCatalyst `ValidateBackgroundColorDoesNotAffectInputTransparent`
timeout matches the exact-base [net11.0 build
1628291](https://dev.azure.com/dnceng-public/public/_build/results?buildId=1628291),
test run 45168562. MacCatalyst Shell
`SearchHandlerQueryIconUpdatesAtRuntime` (0.51% screenshot difference)
also matches that build, run 45168556;
`SearchHandlerClearPlaceholderIconUpdatesAtRuntime`, seen during the
interrupted retry, matches [net11.0 build
1626506](https://dev.azure.com/dnceng-public/public/_build/results?buildId=1626506),
run 45112430. Android
`SafeAreaNoWhiteSpaceAfterKeyboardDismissAndEdgeToggle` matches the same
assertion on [net11.0 build
1627873](https://dev.azure.com/dnceng-public/public/_build/results?buildId=1627873).
- **Unmatched UI failures:** MacCatalyst Shell
`SearchHandlerResetAllRestoresDefaultIcons` has a 0.52% screenshot
mismatch (published in run 45176448); it was not among failed results in
the five sampled net11.0 Shell runs. Windows
`VerifyShellSearch_TextTransformUppercase` has a 0.70% screenshot
mismatch; the corresponding Shell runs pass in all five sampled net11.0
UI builds. Neither is established as unrelated or PR-caused. The Shell
cancellation leaves additional coverage incomplete. No screenshot
baselines were updated to hide failures.
- [PowerShell Script Tests
37821050474](https://github.com/dotnet/maui/actions/runs/37821050474) —
**failed**: the unchanged `Review-Tests` contract expects an inline
GPT-5.6 model while the unchanged target-branch workflow imports
GPT-6.1. Both the assertion and its workflow subject are identical to
net11.0; no pipeline-test changes are included in this PR.

Xcode 27 is not installed locally; the Apple 27 compilation evidence
above is from remote CI. All three PR pipelines have finished, but
**full UI validation is not green**, MacCatalyst Shell coverage is
incomplete, and **official/internal signing remains pending**. The
unmatched failures need further investigation before claiming merge
readiness. These results do not justify removing the retained
execution-image safeguards. No XCTest/XCUITest or local UI automation
was run; global Xcode selection was not changed. The CI watch has been
stopped.

### Issues Fixed

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No separately filed issue; requested .NET 11 adoption of the
already-established RC2 Xcode 27 configuration.

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