# Weekly Virtual Machine / Stack update 2020.January.12

**URL:** <https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/weekly-virtual-machine-stack-update-2020-january-12/11537>\
**Category:** Changelog\
**Tags:** stack-updates\
**Created:** [January 10, 2020, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/weekly-virtual-machine-stack-update-2020-january-12/11537 "2020-01-10T07:07:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/weekly-virtual-machine-stack-update-2020-january-12/11537/1 "2020-01-10T07:07:22Z")

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### Android/Linux stacks

Npm package manager updated to 6.13.4 for security reasons

### Xcode stacks

Npm package manager updated to 6.13.4 for security reasons  
Brew python@2 has been upgraded to python@3 because of deprecation, affected packages were: ansible, mercurial, watchman

### Visual Studio for Mac stacks

- **Stable:** [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2019-mac-relnotes](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2019-mac-relnotes)
- **Beta** : [Visual Studio 2019 for Mac v8.10 - Preview Release Notes | Microsoft Learn](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2019-mac-preview-relnotes)

## This week’s changes (diffs)

> <https://github.com/bitrise-io/bitrise.io/pull/331>

## Stack System Reports

You can find the full system report of all of the available Stacks on GitHub: [https://github.com/bitrise-io/bitrise.io/tree/master/system\_reports](https://github.com/bitrise-io/bitrise.io/tree/master/system_reports).

If you’d like to add additional tools to be pre-installed you can find the instructions on [GitHub](https://github.com/bitrise-io/bitrise.io#request-a-tool-to-be-pre-installed-on-a-build-machine), for both the Linux and for the macOS stacks.

\_Information about **Stack types & update schedules** can be found here: [https://devcenter.bitrise.io/infrastructure/stack-update-and-removal-policy\_](https://devcenter.bitrise.io/infrastructure/stack-update-and-removal-policy_)

All stacks passed our tests and scheduled to be deployed on Saturday.

**Happy Building!**

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**Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.bitrise.io/t/weekly-virtual-machine-stack-update-2020-january-12/11537/2 "2020-04-09T07:07:24Z")

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