Cairo

Cairo is a framework — a low-level graphics library that is embedded inside applications rather than run standalone. It is not separately updatable; instead, any application or tool that bundles Cairo will include and update it as part of its own build. The search results show that Cairo itself has received improvements for macOS and Apple Silicon in recent releases (snapshot 1.17.8 from 2023 mentions "Support for macOS and Windows has been improved"), and native Apple Silicon builds are referenced in the conda-forge repository as of April 2025. However, whether your copy of Cairo is native depends entirely on whether the parent application that includes it was built as a native Apple Silicon binary. If you are using Cairo as part of an R package, a Cinder project, a graphics application, or a development tool, check whether that parent product has been updated to a native Apple Silicon build. For R users specifically, the R package "Cairo" (version 1.7-0 as of May 2026) and its underlying libcairo dependency should be built native if you are using a current native build of R for macOS. If your application is still running under Rosetta and you have no control over its source code, contact the vendor of that application to request a native Apple Silicon build. The framework itself will stop working when Apple removes Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (September 2028), so applications that embed Intel-only Cairo will also stop launching.