With the April 20 update, Roon Core will require macOS 12 or later. Does this also affect using an older Mac with macOS 11 as a Roon endpoint only? Or will endpoints still be supported on macOS 11? Thanks!

[image] DrTone: Auralic Aries G2 that won’t be getting any bridge updates. The device is Roon Ready, not using Bridge. Roon Ready doesn’t expect firmware updates on the endpoint to happen / be possible.

I believe so but I’ll dig into this a bit more because I feel like the answer isn’t a simple yes or no. I’m more worried about it auto-updating. If it slips my mind please reach out and bug/remind me to look into this.

As far as I can tell it wont auto update it looks to be a manual process, so fingers crossed.

looks like my M2 Mini is going to be more underutilized than it already is.

?? The M2 is not affected by this at all

[image] Gary_Proudfoot: As far as I can tell it wont auto update it looks to be a manual process, so fingers crossed. Depends on your update settings [image] Important: Roon Minimum System Requirements Are Changing on April 20, 2026 Can I stay on an older Roon version? We will make a pre-…

Innuos confirmed it is good to go and will stay that way.

I have to do 8 Channel 48khz pcm upsampling to stereo DSD256 to roughly use 20% cpu performance of 2 cores (out of 10). While running screen sharing trough Splashtop . that means processing speed of 5.x in roon with the cpu probably throttling its performance. (m4 base Mac mini) Mac OS27 could be …

Roon Suggested disabling automatic updates as one option. However, I can’t find any option to do so in room settings. How does one disable automatic updates?

Go to :gear: > About and click the :gear: by your Roon Server, then choose the “Ask” option… [image] You should do the same for your Roon Remotes as well, I think.

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Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you) April 9, 2026, 8:21pm 42

Depends on your update settings