diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index f16c45ddc..4f837e5af 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         os:
           - ubuntu-latest
-          - macos-latest
           - windows-latest
           - macos-latest
           # GitHub Actions switched to macOS on amr64 by default. Keep
@@ -177,7 +176,7 @@ jobs:
           architecture: x64
 
       - name: Install Meson
-        run: python -m pip install "meson==${{ matrix.meson }}"
+        run: python -m pip install "meson ${{ matrix.meson }}"
         if: ${{ matrix.meson }}
 
       - name: Install
diff --git a/tests/test_sdist.py b/tests/test_sdist.py
index 4fc0bda1d..70a3e357e 100644
--- a/tests/test_sdist.py
+++ b/tests/test_sdist.py
@@ -222,11 +222,6 @@ def test_reproducible(package_pure, tmp_path):
 # containing symbolic links to absolute paths on Python 3.14.
 # See https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/15142
 @pytest.mark.skipif(sys.version_info >= (3, 14) and MESON_VERSION < (1, 9, 2), reason='incompatible Python version')
-# Python 3.15 tarfile module translates POSIX paths to Windows paths
-# when extracting tar archives on Windows, but does not implement the
-# inverse when creating archives. This results in invalid tar archives
-# and breaks this test. See https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/151671
-@pytest.mark.xfail(sys.version_info >= (3, 15) and sys.platform == 'win32', reason='Python 3.15 tarfile module bug')
 @pytest.mark.filterwarnings('ignore:symbolic link')
 def test_symlinks(tmp_path, sdist_symlinks):
     with tarfile.open(sdist_symlinks, 'r:gz') as sdist: