Apple has officially stopped selling the last batch of discs for older operating systems, including OS X Lion 10.7 and Mountain Lion 10.8. This change was spotted by @ClassicII_MrMac on X (formerly Twitter). Apple's disc era began to fade with the launch of OSXLion in July 2011, the first version of macOS available exclusively on the MacAppStore.
OSXLion introduces several features such as Mission Control, Launchpad, full-screen applications, and significant improvements to Mail and other core applications.
Due to customer demand, Apple briefly resumed providing physical installation media for Lion and Mountain Lion, primarily to meet the needs of users with limited Internet access or older machines without access to the Mac App Store. The same goes for "Mountain Lion" released in July 2012, which focused on digital distribution and introduced features such as notification center, AirPlay mirroring and "Messages" application.
The first macOS version to completely abandon physical release was OSX Mavericks (version 10.9) released in October 2013, and its digital update process remains unchanged to this day.
Although physical installation CDs are no longer used, Apple continues to provide free downloads of OSX Lion and OSX Mountain Lion for users who still need it.