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Xcode 26 Beta 5 is out, and good news: it's gotten noticeably smaller! For most people on Apple Silicon, the app's download size is down by about 22%, and it takes up roughly 25% less space on your drive. See what's changed in this quick overview.

Bitrise has launched a private beta for Remote Build Execution (RBE) with Bazel, enabling dramatically faster builds through parallel execution on scalable infrastructure. With RBE workers, CI runners, and cache co-located in the same data center, teams can achieve up to 13x faster builds.

Need to support multiple Gradle versions in your CI/CD setup? Learn how to create a flexible plugin strategy that handles both legacy and modern buildFinished APIs without breaking configuration cache compatibility.

At Bitrise, we continually invest in security best practices to ensure that our customer’s data stays safe and secure. As a part of an on-going effort, we are excited to announce that we’ve successfully completed our SOC 2 report.

Say hello to the Mini Orchard! No flaky builds because of “data‑center air” at Bitrise: we built our own chassis that can talk to the Bitrise scheduler, can pre‑cool itself, and squeezes 32 Mac minis into a 6 rack unit oversized pizza box.

When preparing to release an iOS app, creating an IPA file is a crucial step. But managing this process can become tedious and error-prone if done manually. Let's see what an IPA is, why it matters in CI/CD pipelines, and how you can seamlessly generate, sign, and distribute IPA files using Bitrise automation.

CI vs CD vs CT in DevOps: Understand what they mean, how they differ, and how each contributes to faster, more reliable software delivery.

Is your "one-size-fits-all" consolidation strategy slowing down your mobile teams and hurting your competitive advantage? Learn why a purpose-built mobile DevOps platform delivers better ROI than generic CI/CD tools that treat mobile as an afterthought.

Apple’s WWDC25 jump to uniform version-26 platforms brought Xcode 26 in Sept 2025, and Bitrise shipped a same-day stable stack. Discover the breaking-change highlights, testing timelines, and prep steps you’ll need before Apple makes Xcode 26 builds mandatory in April 2026.

The new data center is the first in the EU operated by a DevOps Platform, providing businesses with a fully-hosted and managed solution to meet the stringent data security and compliance requirements of the region.

Bitrise is now part of AWS's ISV Accelerate Program, designed for partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success on AWS. Read more about what this means!

Using the calculator is simple: just input your team size, hosting costs, and CI/CD workload. You’ll instantly see how much time and money you could be saving by using a mobile-focused platform for your mobile development workflows.

At Money20/20 last week, Dániel Balla, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Bitrise, delivered a provocative talk on a quietly growing risk in fintech: underestimating the strategic importance of mobile app development.

Bitrise Release Management now offers release note presets and per-release localization controls. Streamline multilingual app updates and reduce the repetitive work of writing release notes!

The fastest Apple Silicon machines are now available to accelerate your mobile CI/CD. Earlier this year, we launched the M4 Pro Early Access program, giving selected customers a chance to test Apple's most powerful chip yet. Now, we're rolling it out to all enterprise plan users. With up to 30-50% faster iOS Xcode compilation speeds compared to M2 Pro, M4 Pro offers the best performance and efficiency for mobile CI/CD workflows, exclusively available on Bitrise: the first mobile DevOps cloud platform to provide M4 Pro for iOS teams.

Drop by booth B47 on Wednesday, April 30 to chat about all things mobile development, from streamlining your CI/CD workflows to scaling efficiently on AWS. We’ve got top tips for every mobile team–read on for details!

How can you introduce more tests without slowing down your CI pipeline? The answer: test sharding! Dive into what test sharding is and get step-by-step instructions for how to reduce your build times by up to 50% using Bitrise’s out of the box sharding features.

Managing multiple apps with different store accounts just got easier! Until now, apps in Release Management had to share the same store connection as their Bitrise Project. Not anymore: you can now use your Bitrise Project’s connection or configure an app-level connection.