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List:       macports-users
Subject:    Re: macOS 11 Big Sur and MacPorts
From:       Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign () macports ! org>
Date:       2020-11-12 18:24:00
Message-ID: 8FB10FCE-7060-40D9-A369-A842D1352D42 () macports ! org
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On Nov 11, 2020, at 22:27, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > Apple has announced that macOS 11 Big Sur will be released tomorrow, November 12, \
> > 2020. In the coming days we will either release an installer for MacPorts 2.6.3 \
> > for macOS 11 or will release a new version of MacPorts with installers for all OS \
> > versions including macOS 11.
> 
> Thanks for the heads-up; I think my MacBook Pro will be stuck forever on Sierra \
> 10.12.6 (although admittedly I haven't tried High Sierra on this one) and MacPorts \
> 2.6.3 is likely as far as it will go.

Future versions of MacPorts base will be compatible with macOS 10.12 for a long time; \
we're still compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 even and try not to break compatibility \
with old OS versions if we can avoid it.

You should always run the latest version of MacPorts base. A few weeks after a new \
version of MacPorts is released, we might start updating ports to take advantage of \
new features introduced in that version, so if you update your ports collection but \
don't update MacPorts base, some ports might not work. This is why MacPorts reminds \
you every few weeks to selfupdate since that will update both ports and base.


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