macOS Rosetta transition (end of life)

About Rosetta

Rosetta 2 enables a Mac with Apple silicon (e.g. an M5, M4 etc processor) to use apps that have been built for a Mac with an Intel processor.

You can tell which apps currently use Rosetta by viewing the application or process within Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor on macOS, then reviewing the Kind column. Apps written for Apple silicon will say Apple and those using Rosetta will say Intel.

Using Rosetta

If you don’t already have Rosetta installed, you’ll be asked if you want to install Rosetta automatically when you launch a PaperCut client or application. See If you need to install Rosetta from Apple.

Rosetta will still be available and supported in macOS 26 (Tahoe) and macOS 27 (not yet released). Following Apple’s previous yearly release cycle we’d expect macOS 27 to be released around September 2026.

Note that we have successfully tested Apple Silicon and Rosetta 2 with all PaperCut apps - including PaperCut NG/MF Application Server, Mobility Print Server, PaperCut Print Deploy Server, PaperCut Print Provider, PaperCut User Client, PaperCut Print Deploy Client, PaperCut Pocket client / Edge Node software and PaperCut Hive client / Edge Node software.

End of life for Rosetta

Apple announced last year that they plan to phase out support for Rosetta in late 2027, as documented on their About the Rosetta translation environment article.

Apple have also added warning notifications in the beta releases of macOS 26.4. These notifications have wording along the lines of “Support Ending for Intel-based Apps. This version of [application] will not open in a future release of macOS. Learn how to update to an Apple silicon version”. See Apple’s Using Intel-based apps on a Mac with Apple silicon article for more information. Apple have mentioned that sys admins can control the notification experience on managed devices - see the Tahoe 26.4 beta release notes for more information.

Note that there are two strands of support ending around “Intel”.

macOS Tahoe (version 26) will be the last release for Intel-based Mac computers. That means that version of macOS 27 will not be compatible with Intel-based Macs. However, Rosetta will still be supported on macOS 27 when released at the end of this year, and support for Rosetta ends with macOS 28.

PaperCut are planning on updating all products to ensure continued support on the latest macOS versions (without Rosetta). We hope to have early versions of Apple-Silicon-ready PaperCut apps later in 2026 or early 2027, but we will continue to update this page with progress.