As announced previously, we’ve switched to an update Xcode 7.3 image as our default OS X build environment.

The Xcode 7.3 image is now live in production as our default image.

Difference between previous Xcode 6.1 image and current Xcode 7.3 image

Below is a summary of the major differences in versions of tools installed in each image and the changes you’ll see

Application	beta-xcode6.1	xcode7.3
brew list	-	-
	apple-gcc42 4.2.1-5666.3
	autoconf 2.69	autoconf 2.69
	automake 1.14.1	automake 1.15
	boost 1.55.0_2	boost 1.61.0_1
		carthage 0.18
	cgal 4.4	cgal 4.8.1 4.9
	cloog 0.18.1	cloog018 0.18.0
	cloog-ppl015 0.15.11
	cloog018 0.18.0
	cmake 3.0.2	cmake 3.6.2
		coreutils 8.25
	freexl 1.0.0g	freexl 1.0.2
	gcc 4.9.1	gcc49 4.9.3
	gcc46 4.6.4
	gcc48 4.8.3
	gdal 1.10.1 1.10.1_1 1.11.0	gdal 1.11.5_1
		gdbm 1.12
	geos 3.4.2	geos 3.5.0
	giflib 4.1.6	giflib 4.2.3
		git 2.10.0
	gmp 6.0.0a	gmp 6.1.1
	gmp4 4.3.2	gmp4 4.3.2
		gnupg 1.4.21
	go 1.1.2 1.2 1.2.1 1.2.2 1.3.1	go 1.7.1
	gpp 2.24	gpp 2.24
	isl 0.12.2
	isl011 0.11.1	isl011 0.11.1
	jpeg 8d	jpeg 8d
	json-c 0.11	json-c 0.12
		libevent 2.0.22
	libgeotiff 1.4.0	libgeotiff 1.4.1_2
	libgpg-error 1.16	libgpg-error 1.24
	libksba 1.3.1	libksba 1.3.5
	liblwgeom 2.1.1	liblwgeom 2.1.5_3
	libmpc 1.0.2
	libmpc08 0.8.1	libmpc08 0.8.1
	libpng 1.6.13	libpng 1.6.25
	libspatialite 4.2.0	libspatialite 4.3.0a_3
	libtiff 4.0.3	libtiff 4.0.6_2
	libtool 2.4.2	libtool 2.4.6_1
	libxml2 2.9.1	libxml2 2.9.4
	libyaml 0.1.6	libyaml 0.1.6_10.1.7
	lzlib 1.5	lzlib 1.8
	maven 3.2.3	maven 3.3.9
		md5deep 4.4
	mercurial 2.8 2.9 2.9.1 2.9.2 3.0 3.0.1 3.1.1	mercurial 3.9.1
	mpfr 3.1.2-p8	mpfr 3.1.4 3.1.5
	mpfr2 2.4.2	mpfr2 2.4.2
	node 0.10.32	node 6.6.0 6.7.0
	openssl 1.0.1e 1.0.1f 1.0.1g 1.0.1h 1.0.1i	openssl 1.0.2h_1 1.0.2j
	ossp-uuid 1.6.2_1
		pcre 8.39
	pkg-config 0.28	pkg-config 0.29.1 0.29.1_1 0.29.1_2
	postgis 2.1.1 2.1.2 2.1.3	postgis 2.2.2_1 2.2.2_3
	postgresql 9.3.5_1	postgresql 9.5.4 9.5.4_1
	ppl011 0.11
	proj 4.8.0	proj 4.9.3
		python 2.7.12 2.7.12_1
	pyenv 20140602 20140615 20140705
	readline 6.3.8	readline 6.3.8 7.0
	sfcgal 1.0.4 1.0.5	sfcgal 1.3.0_1 1.3.0_2
	sqlite 3.8.1 3.8.3 3.8.4.2 3.8.4.3 3.8.6	sqlite 3.14.2 3.14.2_1
	subversion 1.8.10_1	subversion 1.9.4
		swiftlint 0.12.0
		tmux 2.2 2.3
	wget 1.15_2	wget 1.18
	xctool 0.2.1	xctool 0.2.9
brew cask list
		java 1.8.0_60-b27 1.8.0_74-b02 1.8.0_92-b14
		clint 0.8.1 0.10.2 0.10.3,15.5.0
		rubymotion latest
		xquartz 2.7.7 2.7.8
xcodebuild	Xcode 6.1 Build version 6A1052c	Xcode 7.3.1 Build version 7D1014
nvm list
	-	v0.8.28
	-	v0.10.44
	-	v0.12.13
	-	iojs-v3.3.1
	-	v4.4.3
	-	v5.11.0
	-	v6.0.0
rvm list
	ruby-1.9.3-p547 [ x86_64 ]	-
	-	ruby-1.9.3-p551 [ x86_64 ]
	ruby-2.0.0-p481 [x86_64 ]	-
	ruby-2.0.0-p576 [ x86_64 ]	-
	-	ruby-2.0.0-p643 [ x86_64 ]
	-	ruby-2.0.0-p648 [ x86_64 ]
	ruby-2.1.2 [ x86_64]	-
	ruby-2.1.3 [ x86_64 ]	-
	-	ruby-2.1.5 [ x86_64 ]
	-	ruby-2.1.10 [ x86_64 ]
	-	ruby-2.2.1 [ x86_64 ]
	-	ruby-2.2.4 [x86_64 ]
	-	ruby-2.2.5 [ x86_64 ]
	-	ruby-2.3.0 [ x86_64 ]
	-	ruby-2.3.1 [ x86_64 ]
	-	jruby-1.7.19 [ x86_64 ]
	-	jruby-1.7.23 [ x86_64 ]
	-	jruby-1.7.25 [ x86_64 ]
	-	jruby-9.0.5.0 [ x86_64 ]
	-	jruby-9.1.0.0 [ x86_64 ]
python2.6	Python 2.6.8	Python 2.6.9
python2.7	Python 2.7.5	Python 2.7.12
CocoaPods	0.34.4	1.0.1
Carthage	-	0.18
xcpretty	0.1.7	0.2.2
xctool	0.2.1	0.2.9
RubyMotion	2.33	4.12

Simplifying our process by retiring some images

In order to give users who explicitly use some of our less common Xcode versions some time to transition, we’ll be maintaining all the current images through Monday, October 31st. On Oct. 31 we will be simplifying our image catalog to the following three available options:

• osx_image: xcode6.4 (with 10.10)
• osx_image: xcode7.3 (with 10.11 and default)
• osx_image: xcode8 (currently 10.11, but tentatively planned to be 10.12 once we’ve done some vSphere compatibility testing)

We may extend this time period, based on user feedback, and we will begin displaying a warning message to users who have explicitly chosen one of the less common Xcode versions in the first week of October.

Questions?

As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to email support@travis-ci.com