Apple Deprecates hdiutil in macOS 27, Breaking Longtime Scripts
hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate
In macOS 27 Golden Gate, Apple has deprecated the command-line tool hdiutil, directing users to diskutil image instead. Developer Jeff Johnson tests the replacement, finding it faster and producing smaller disk images, but it lacks some hdiutil options, fails on permission errors without explanation, and doesn't include a scrub option. Johnson warns that deprecation could break apps like Knox that rely on hdiutil, and notes that a persistent bug with .bnnsir files remains unfixed.
I don’t understand why hdiutil needs to be deprecated when the same functionality will live on in diskutil.
- nrabulinski
Given xip has been deprecated for a long time now, yet still is the format Xcode is distributed in, I highly doubt hidutil will ever disappear from macOS. Apple just won’t really update it anymore, just like they haven’t changed xip (not like hidutil has seen any significant changes, but still)
- oefrha
I like how the $4.5T company can’t pay for the 100 engineering hours a year to maintain this, or just fork over the Claude tokens to do it, while they keep telling us how productive AI is making them (which, to be clear, has indeed made me a lot more productive).
- binaryturtle
So I guess ram disks are deprecated too? (AFAIR hdiutil was the only way to create them)
- stasomatic
It's in vogue to rag on Apple because of its size/influence/market cap. Annoying, very. They are hovering around 14% desktop marketshare. Is the other 86% fairing so much better?
I've used hdutil perhaps never.
- jstsch
Was the error visible somewhere through Console.app? This is a major annoyance for me with Cocoa/AppKit apps that basically have terminal usage secondary.