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It took 3.4 days to have a new Xcode version available for developers on Bitrise, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and Travis CI. Bitrise came out as the fastest, but fell short of their aim to have new versions available within 48 hours. Xcode betas help prepare for new features, functionality, and – dreaded – deprecations. With WWDC 2021 around the corner, this topic is more relevant than ever. The research method was based on a sample of Xcode releases over a 12 month period.