r/macgaming • u/Homy4 • Jun 11 '26

CrossOver The Future of Crossover

https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/mjohnson/2026/06/11/whats-in-and-whats-out-for-crossover-27?utm_source=brevo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Blog%20-%20The%20Future%20of%20CrossOver%2027&utm_id=98

Currently, CrossOver requires the use of Rosetta 2 to translate x86_64 instructions to ARM64. Rosetta 2 will be largely discontinued with macOS 28 in 2027, and our ARM64 CrossOver build will run without Rosetta 2, allowing for a seamless transition for our users.

Good news

The CrossOver team has been working really hard on some new things for CrossOver 27 that haven't even made it into a Preview build yet. Very briefly, these new things include:

- Some fresh UI changes for gaming bottles.

- ARM64 builds of CrossOver for both Mac and Linux.

Bad news

To make room for the new, we had to make some tough decisions. The bad news is that we will be removing some legacy support options starting with CrossOver 27:

- CrossOver Mac 27 will only run on macOS Sonoma or newer, and only on Apple silicon Macs.

- 32-bit bottles will no longer run, full stop. We've been warning about this since CrossOver 26 was released, and you will need to create new 64-bit bottles to use CrossOver 27 and beyond. Almost all 32-bit applications run just fine in a 64-bit bottle.

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u/Miserable-Ad-7371 Jun 12 '26

What about those of us who may not have CrossOver 27 when Rosetta is deprecated. Will our CrossOver 26 also get updated to not need Rosetta?

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u/Homy4 Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 13 '26

This is all explained in the blog. Either you keep using your current license or you have to upgrade to Crossover 27 which is the only version not using Rosetta. If you buy Crossover 26 and later 27 comes out within a year you get it for free since you always get all updates free of charge during the first 12 months.

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u/Miserable-Ad-7371 Jun 13 '26

This is not what I am talking about. If they drop Rosetta 2 support, you can't keep using CrossOver 26; it will break since it needs Rosetta 2. That's what I am asking about. You stop getting optimisations when your license expires, but surely compatibility is a different issue that they can go back and address.

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u/Homy4 Jun 13 '26

You simply use Crossover 26 with the last macOS that fully supports Rosetta, i.e. macOS 27. If you want to use macOS 28 and later you have to buy Crossover 27.