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Ship iOS and Android builds twice as fast on GitHub Actions

Jun 1, 2026 By Naveen Nazimudeen In Bitrise
Last year, Nathan Hillyer's iOS platform engineering team at ForeFlight had self-hosted Mac hardware in their office, two engineers keeping them alive, and a codebase with over 2 million lines of Objective-C, Swift, and C++. Every Xcode update was a fire drill. Every capacity spike during a merge meant somebody was physically racking hardware in the Austin office. ForeFlight didn't want a new CI system. They wanted to stop being a data centre.
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Open Source Registries Are Changing: Here's How Bitrise Keeps Your Builds Running

May 29, 2026 By Viktor Benei In Bitrise
There is a shift happening in a previously quiet corner of the open source community. You may have experienced this in your own Android builds with an HTTP 429 ("Too Many Requests") error during dependency resolution from Maven Central. Over a period of a few days in late April to early May 2026, a subset of Bitrise users experienced these errors. Here's what happened, what we did about it, and what it means for you.
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CopyFail, Local Privilege Escalation, and what Bitrise customers should know

May 22, 2026 By Bitrise In Bitrise
With all the online chatter about Copy Fail, DirtyFrag, and Fragnesia, we prepared this simple explainer about what these local privilege escalation vulnerabilities are and how they affect Bitrise customers. Bitrise provides a full-stack, vertically integrated mobile DevOps solution that unites the tools, processes and testing frameworks engineering teams need to build best-in-class mobile experiences. Over 400,000 developers use Bitrise’s products: Bitrise CI, Build Cache, Release Management, and Insights.
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Q&A: Changing the game for creators: how Substack doubled mobile build speed with Bitrise

Apr 30, 2026 By Mackenzie Foote In Bitrise
When Substack first launched in 2017, the company set out to give writers a better business model, built on subscriptions and direct relationships with readers. Since then, Substack has expanded into multi-format publishing across text, audio, and video, while building powerful tools for community and discovery, for creators, writers, and thinkers of all kinds.
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What App Stores allow with OTA updates: Apple and Google policy explained

Apr 23, 2026 By Dan Žďárek In Bitrise
A critical bug is live in production. Your fix is ready. And now your team is staring at a potential multi-day wait for app store review. This is exactly what over-the-air (OTA) updates are designed to solve. Tools like Expo EAS Update, CodePush, Shorebird, Revopush or Stallion make it easy to push updates directly to users’ devices. But OTA updates don't bypass app store rules, they operate within boundaries that both Apple and Google have defined.
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Cross-workflow integration testing on iOS: a recipe for macOS + Docker pipelines

Apr 17, 2026 By Silvercast Nguyen In Bitrise
Running real integration tests for iOS projects is one of those problems that sounds straightforward until you're actually in it. The core tension: your backend runs on Linux, your iOS app can only build on Apple hardware. The two worlds don't meet naturally. Most teams end up mocking server responses in their mobile tests to isolate components without relying on backend services.
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Why your AI Agent needs both a key and a map

Apr 14, 2026 By Kaushal Vyas In Bitrise
You asked Claude to generate a bitrise.yml. It came back clean: right steps, reasonable workflow names, valid YAML. You almost merged it. Then you noticed it’s using before_run instead of step bundles. There are no version locks on steps. The triggers are structured in a format Bitrise deprecated months ago. It’s a valid config, but it would never pass code review. The quality of an agent's interaction with your CI/CD comes down to two things: what it can do and what it knows.
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GitHub Actions macOS runner alternative: M4 Pro with 54GB RAM and same-day Xcode

Apr 7, 2026 By Catherine Doyle In Bitrise
Bitrise Build Hub is a vertically integrated mobile CI/CD infrastructure layer that drops into GitHub Actions with one line of YAML. GitHub Actions runs your CI, but its Mac runners are holding your mobile builds back. Limited M1/M2 hardware, stale Xcode, no cache co-location, no macOS uptime SLA. The infrastructure wasn't built for mobile. Build Hub was. Build Hub upgrades the runner layer underneath.
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Lightning-fast infra for GitHub Actions: Bitrise Build Hub in 1 minute

Apr 7, 2026 By Bitrise In Bitrise
Bitrise Build Hub: A drop-in replacement for GitHub's macOS runners. The largest dedicated Apple Silicon fleet for mobile CI/CD. M4 Pro Apple Silicon with 54GB RAM, Xcode updates within 24 hours, co-located build cache. One line of YAML. Bitrise provides a full-stack, vertically integrated mobile DevOps solution that unites the tools, processes and testing frameworks engineering teams need to build best-in-class mobile experiences. Over 400,000 developers use Bitrise’s products: Bitrise CI, Build Cache, Release Management, and Insights.
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