Apple Silicon M1 native support

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Hi all - I was writing a Twitter response to an Apple Silicon question, and figured I’d just give a longer update here.

We’re making good progress! Nick’s post above summarized the remaining pieces well -

  1. MySQL - DONE, code is tested and merged and will be released in the next minor version of Local. (There is a patch version, v9.1.1, releasing this week that is bug fixes only, and the MySQL changes are not included).
  2. rsync and ssh - These are in progress by Nick right now.
  3. Apache - We’re bumping the Apache that Local uses to the latest (2.4.62) at the same time, and this is in PR. Once merged, we’ll get it set for Apple Silicon and this will be done as well.
  4. Sudo-prompt - Not started.

Timeline -
Local v9.1.1 - available later this week (~20-22 Nov), no Apple Silicon specific related changes
Local v9.2 - Native MySQL, rsync, ssh, and Apache. I’d expect some if not all of these out in December.

That will leave sudo-prompt as the only remaining Intel binary left to slay. Hopefully this updated timeline is helpful!