Although this previous feature request has been marked as closed or completed, regarding the growing architecture shift on Mac and regarding the limited performance, this would still be highly appreciated. :slight_smile:

Local 9.2.0 Much like the Beta release, the latest Stable version of Local is now fully Apple Silicon native! Download the latest version from the above link, or click “Local > Check for update” from an existing installation of Local!

Thank you @austinwendt and sorry for my late reply. I’m very happy to hear that this is still on the roadmap. :slight_smile: And yes it appears to actually affect performance to a noticable degree, especially regarding mysqld. I’ve tested this on M1 and M2. Yet as you know it’s difficult to put …

Quick perspective update from me as well: I’ll gladly admit it’s mostly about having a “clean” macOs, i.e. without any Rosetta overheads. But it’s also that when I compared using WP backend of the same site using Laravel Valet (fully Apple Silicon-native since what feels like forever) vs. LocalWP (o…

I don’t understand why the Apple silicon version of Local (currently at v8.1.0) still uses Intel binaries on arm64 (i.e. Apple Silicon) processors. Arm64 binaries for nginx/mysql/etc. have been available since forever. It’s getting ridiculous at this point. For those who don’t want to use Valet bec…

Thanks @pryley for the heads-up re: Herd – that’s the way it should be for macOS users, no Homebrew / Composer shenanigans and no Electron overhead. Now if only Herd understood WP Multisites… Spoke too soon: the «Using Laravel Herd to Set Up Local WordPress Dev Environment» conveniently leaves out…

@philby For the database, you can use DBngin if you don’t want to mess around with homebrew. Multisite works fine for me in Herd. DBngin is a database management tool for your local development environment. It lets you setup MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis databases with a single click. It’s as eas…

Thanks for the context on battery life - definitely a valid concern! The engineering team met on this this week and identified the 3 things we need to do to resolve this. Here’s our approach: Replace Mailhog with Mailpit in Local; rather than compile an abandoned tool for Silicon, we should switc…

It’s now almost 4 years since Apple announced their Silicon, and LocalWP still installs Intel executables. Took about 2 minutes to install and uninstall 8.3.1 :nerd_face:

To provide an update on progress, the latest Local Release v8.3.1 includes Mailpit, the replacement for Mailhog. This contains a native binary for Apple Silicon that we have bundled, removing one of Local’s remaining dependencies on Rosetta 2 for Apple Silicon users. Rosetta 2 is still required, but…

Any updates on this, now that this year’s WWDC is behind us?

We’re working on bundling a Silicon version of nginx in Local next. We have tickets for the remaining Intel-specific binaries in Local too. So this is still on our roadmap — thanks for your patience.

Apple Silicon M1 native support

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Apple Silicon M1 native support

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