GH-51402: [CI][Release] Bump macos runner versions to supported version from Homebrew

[raulcd]

Rationale for this change

Due to homebrew dropping support for building bottles for macOS Intel several CI jobs started failing. Some other arm64 related jobs also failed because old bottles are also not built. There's a ML discussion about dropping support for macOS Intel, see for more details:

• https://lists.apache.org/thread/l3vmknbjhwf60crrfp3hwb7p5m4qjw7z

What changes are included in this PR?

Bump macOS arm runners to macos-26 and macOS Intel runners (that don't require homebrew bottles) to macos-26-intel.
Drop the macOS Intel source verification jobs that require Homebrew bottles in order to run.

Are these changes tested?

Yes on CI. The only untested ones are the bumps on binary verification.

Are there any user-facing changes?

No

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• GitHub Issue: [CI][Release] Verification jobs for macOS fail installing system dependencies #51402

[github-actions]

⚠️ GitHub issue #51402 has been automatically assigned in GitHub to PR creator.

[raulcd]

@github-actions crossbow submit verify-rc-source-cpp-macos-*

[github-actions]

Revision: 83a5541

Submitted crossbow builds: ursacomputing/crossbow @ actions-6a4aa4096f

Task	Status
verify-rc-source-cpp-macos-amd64
verify-rc-source-cpp-macos-arm64
verify-rc-source-cpp-macos-conda-amd64

[raulcd]

I am wondering whether we should try bumping several occurrences on the R packaging jobs, @thisisnic what are your thoughts?

arrow/dev/tasks/r/github.packages.yml

Lines 72 to 73 in c400f72

	- { runs_on: macos-15-intel, arch: "x86_64" }
	- { runs_on: macos-14, arch: "arm64" }

[raulcd]

@github-actions crossbow submit wheel-macos-*

[github-actions]

Revision: 83a5541

Submitted crossbow builds: ursacomputing/crossbow @ actions-aabc337f07

Task	Status
wheel-macos-monterey-cp311-cp311-amd64
wheel-macos-monterey-cp311-cp311-arm64
wheel-macos-monterey-cp312-cp312-amd64
wheel-macos-monterey-cp312-cp312-arm64
wheel-macos-monterey-cp313-cp313-amd64
wheel-macos-monterey-cp313-cp313-arm64
wheel-macos-monterey-cp314-cp314-amd64
wheel-macos-monterey-cp314-cp314-arm64
wheel-macos-monterey-cp314-cp314t-amd64
wheel-macos-monterey-cp314-cp314t-arm64
wheel-macos-monterey-cp315-cp315-amd64
wheel-macos-monterey-cp315-cp315-arm64
wheel-macos-monterey-cp315-cp315t-amd64
wheel-macos-monterey-cp315-cp315t-arm64

[thisisnic]

I am wondering whether we should try bumping several occurrences on the R packaging jobs, @thisisnic what are your thoughts?

I think they're not pinned to CRAN versions but just whatever was there when we updated CI, so should be fine - will just need to run the r-binary-packages job to make sure the specific XCode version we use is all good there.

[raulcd]

@github-actions crossbow submit r-binary-packages

[raulcd]

@github-actions crossbow submit verify-rc-source--macos-

[github-actions]

Revision: ec2e18e

Submitted crossbow builds: ursacomputing/crossbow @ actions-58291f6299

Task	Status
r-binary-packages

[github-actions]

Revision: ec2e18e

Submitted crossbow builds: ursacomputing/crossbow @ actions-7d35fc8af8

Task	Status
verify-rc-source-cpp-macos-arm64
verify-rc-source-integration-macos-arm64
verify-rc-source-python-macos-arm64
verify-rc-source-ruby-macos-arm64

[raulcd]

Binary verification jobs are expected to fail. The macOS intel wheels verification does not require Homebrew bottles so they are expected to work (same as building the wheels for macOS Intel).

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Copilot review overview

🟡 Changes recommended

Several Intel jobs still rely on unsupported Homebrew bottles, and a conda verification matrix was unnecessarily removed.

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• Intel macOS jobs still depend on failing Homebrew bottles · New

What changed in this PR

Updates macOS CI and release runners to supported macOS 26 images and removes affected Intel source-verification jobs.

Changes:

• Migrates runners to macos-26 and macos-26-intel.
• Updates R package and wheel verification matrices.
• Removes Intel source-verification task definitions.

File	Review
dev/​tasks/​tasks.yml	Updates wheel and verification runners; removes a conda verification matrix that should be retained.
dev/​tasks/​r/​github.packages.yml	Updates R package matrices, but some Intel jobs still depend on Homebrew bottles.
.github/​workflows/​verify_rc.yml	Updates macOS binary verification runners.

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