Chromium v139+ is dropping support for MacOS Big Sur v11, affects Electron v38 which will likely be used for Thorium after v3.2.2 (which shipped with Electron v37 / Chromium v138)

[danielweck]

Intel Mac hardware will continue to be supported, but not all computers! (I personally still own a MacMini 2018 so I will be able to test builds)

• https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v38.0.0
• https://developer.chrome.com/release-notes/139
• https://developer.chrome.com/release-notes/140

see also:

• v11: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Big_Sur

macOS Big Sur is the final version of macOS that supports Macs with Nvidia graphics cards, specifically the 15-inch dual graphics late 2013 and mid 2014 MacBook Pro models, as its successor, macOS Monterey, drops support for those models.

• v12: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Monterey

macOS Monterey is the final version of macOS that supports the 2015–2017 MacBook Air, Retina MacBook Pro, 2014 Mac Mini, 2015 iMac and cylindrical Mac Pro, as its successor, macOS Ventura, drops support for those models. It is the last version of macOS that can run on Macs with 4GB of RAM.

• v13: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Ventura

macOS Ventura is the last version of macOS supporting Macs released in 2017, including the 21.5-inch 2017 iMac and the 12-inch MacBook, with the exception of the iMac Pro, which is supported by releases up to macOS Sequoia.

[danielweck]

@gautierchomel doc minimum requirements: https://thorium.edrlab.org/en/th3/400_ressources/390_requirements/