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Ubuntu 24.04 Arm64 (20260531) Image Update

03 Jun 10:19

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Ubuntu 24.04

  • OS Version: 24.04.4 LTS
  • Kernel Version: 6.17.0-1015-azure
  • Image Version: 20260531.15.1
  • Systemd version: 255.4-1ubuntu8.15

Installed Software

Language and Runtime

  • Bash 5.2.21(1)-release
  • Clang: 16.0.6, 17.0.6, 18.1.3
  • Clang-format: 16.0.6, 17.0.6, 18.1.3
  • Clang-tidy: 16.0.6, 17.0.6, 18.1.3
  • Dash 0.5.12-6ubuntu5
  • GNU C++: 12.4.0, 13.3.0, 14.2.0
  • GNU Fortran: 12.4.0, 13.3.0, 14.2.0
  • Kotlin 2.3.21-release-298
  • Node.js 22.22.3
  • Perl 5.38.2
  • Python 3.12.3
  • Ruby 3.2.3
  • Swift 6.3.1

Package Management

  • cpan 1.64
  • Helm 3.21.0
  • Homebrew 5.1.14
  • Npm 10.9.8
  • Pip 24.0
  • Pip3 24.0
  • Pipx 1.13.0
  • RubyGems 3.4.20
  • Vcpkg (build from commit f9ffbaa46a)
  • Yarn 1.22.22

Environment variables

Name Value
CONDA
VCPKG_INSTALLATION_ROOT /usr/local/share/vcpkg

Homebrew note

Location: /home/linuxbrew
Note: Homebrew is pre-installed on image but not added to PATH.
run the eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)" command
to accomplish this.

Project Management

  • Ant 1.10.14
  • Gradle 9.5.1
  • Lerna 9.0.7
  • Maven 3.9.12

Tools

  • Ansible 2.20.6
  • AzCopy 10.32.4 - available by azcopy and azcopy10 aliases
  • Bazel 9.1.0
  • Bazelisk 1.28.1
  • Buildah 1.33.7
  • CMake 3.31.6
  • Docker Amazon ECR Credential Helper 0.12.0
  • Docker Compose 2.38.2
  • Docker-Buildx 0.34.1
  • Docker Client 28.0.4
  • Docker Server 28.0.4
  • Fastlane 2.235.0
  • Git 2.54.0
  • Git LFS 3.7.1
  • Git-ftp 1.6.0
  • Haveged 1.9.14
  • jq 1.7
  • Kind 0.31.0
  • Kubectl 1.36.1
  • Kustomize 5.8.1
  • MediaInfo 24.01
  • Mercurial 6.7.2
  • Minikube 1.38.1
  • n 10.2.0
  • Newman 6.2.2
  • nvm 0.40.4
  • OpenSSL 3.0.13-0ubuntu3.9
  • Packer 1.15.3
  • Parcel 2.16.4
  • Podman 4.9.3
  • Pulumi 3.244.0
  • Skopeo 1.13.3
  • Sphinx Open Source Search Server 2.2.11
  • yamllint 1.38.0
  • yq 4.53.2
  • zstd 1.5.7
  • Ninja 1.13.2

CLI Tools

  • AWS CLI 2.34.57
  • AWS CLI Session Manager Plugin 1.2.814.0
  • AWS SAM CLI 1.161.1
  • Azure CLI 2.86.0
  • Azure CLI (azure-devops) 1.0.4
  • GitHub CLI 2.93.0
  • Google Cloud CLI 570.0.0

Java

Version Environment Variable
8.0.492+9 JAVA_HOME_8_X64
11.0.31+11 JAVA_HOME_11_X64
17.0.19+10 (default) JAVA_HOME_17_X64
21.0.11+10 JAVA_HOME_21_X64
25.0.3+9 JAVA_HOME_25_X64

PHP Tools

  • PHP: 8.3.6
  • Composer 2.10.0
  • PHPUnit 8.5.52
Both Xdebug and PCOV extensions are installed, but only Xdebug is enabled.

Rust Tools

  • Cargo 1.96.0
  • Rust 1.96.0
  • Rustdoc 1.96.0
  • Rustup 1.29.0

Packages

  • Rustfmt 1.9.0

Browsers and Drivers

  • Selenium server 4.44.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 151.0.2
  • Geckodriver 0.36.0

Environment variables

Name Value
CHROMEWEBDRIVER
EDGEWEBDRIVER
GECKOWEBDRIVER /usr/local/share/gecko_driver
SELENIUM_JAR_PATH /usr/share/java/selenium-server.jar

.NET Tools

  • .NET Core SDK: 8.0.127, 8.0.206, 8.0.319, 8.0.421, 9.0.117, 9.0.205, 9.0.314, 10.0.108, 10.0.204, 10.0.300
  • nbgv 3.9.50+6feeb89450

Databases

  • sqlite3 3.45.1

MySQL

  • MySQL 8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
User: root
Password: root
MySQL service is disabled by default.
Use the following command as a part of your job to start the service: 'sudo systemctl start mysql.service'

PowerShell Tools

  • PowerShell 7.4.16

PowerShell Modules

  • Az: 14.6.0
  • Microsoft.Graph: 2.37.0
  • Pester: 5.7.1
  • PSScriptAnalyzer: 1.25.0

Web Servers

Name Version ConfigFile ServiceStatus ListenPort
apache2 2.4.58 /etc/apache2/apache2.conf inactive 80
nginx 1.24.0 /etc/nginx/nginx.conf inactive 80

Installed apt packages

Name Version
acl 2.3.2-1build1.1
aria2 1.37.0+debian-1build3
autoconf 2.71-3
automake 1:1.16.5-1.3ubuntu1
binutils 2.42-4ubuntu2.10
bison 2:3.8.2+dfsg-1build2
brotli 1.1.0-2build2
bzip2 1.0.8-5.1build0.1
coreutils 9.4-3ubuntu6.2
curl 8.5.0-2ubuntu10.9
dbus 1.14.10-4ubuntu4.1
dnsutils 1:9.18.39-0ubuntu0.24.04.5
dpkg 1.22.6ubuntu6.6
dpkg-dev 1.22.6ubuntu6.6
fakeroot 1.33-1
file 1:5.45-3build1
findutils 4.9.0-5build1
flex 2.6.4-8.2build1
fonts-noto-color-emoji 2.047-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
ftp 20230507-2build3
g++ 4:13.2.0-7ubuntu1
gcc 4:13.2.0-7ubuntu1
gnupg2 2.4.4-2ubuntu17.4
haveged 1.9.14-1ubuntu2
iproute2 6.1.0-1ubuntu6.3
iputils-ping 3:20240117-1ubuntu0.1
jq 1.7.1-3ubuntu0.24.04.2
libgbm-dev 25.2.8-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
libnss3-tools 2:3.98-1ubuntu0.1
libsqlite3-dev 3.45.1-1ubuntu2.5
libssl-dev 3.0.13-0ubuntu3.9
libtool 2.4.7-7build1
libyaml-dev 0.2.5-1build1
locales 2.39-0ubuntu8.7
lz4 1.9.4-1build1.1
m4 1.4.19-4build1
make 4.3-4.1build2
mediainfo 24.01.1-1build2
mercurial 6.7.2-1ubuntu2.2
net-tools 2.10-0.1ubuntu4.4
netcat 1.226-1ubuntu2
openssh-client 1:9.6p1-3ubuntu13.16
p7zip-full 16.02+transitional.1
p7zip-rar 16.02+transitional.1
parallel 20231122+ds-1
patchelf 0.18.0-1.1build1
pigz 2.8-1
pkg-config 1.8.1-2build1
pollinate 4.33-3.1ubuntu1.3
python-is-python3 3.11.4-1
rpm 4.18.2+dfsg-2.1build2
rsync 3.2.7-1ubuntu1.4
shellcheck 0.9.0-1
sphinxsearch 2.2.11-8build1
sqlite3 3.45.1-1ubuntu2.5
ssh 1:9.6p1-3ubuntu13.16
sshpass 1.09-1
sudo 1.9.15p5-3ubuntu5.24.04.2
swig 4.2.0-2ubuntu1
systemd-coredump 255.4-1ubuntu8.15
tar 1.35+dfsg-3build1
telnet 0.17+2.5-3ubuntu4.1
texinfo 7.1-3build2
time 1.9-0.2build1
tk 8.6.14build1
tree 2.1.1-2ubuntu3.24.04.2
tzdata 2026a-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
unzip 6.0-28ubuntu4.1
upx 4.2.2-3
wget 1.21.4-1ubuntu4.1
xvfb 2:21.1.12-1ubuntu1.5
xz-utils 5.6.1+really5.4.5-1ubuntu0.2
zip 3.0-13ubuntu0.2
zsync 0.6.2-5build1

Ubuntu 22.04 Arm64 (20260531) Image Update

03 Jun 10:51

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Ubuntu 22.04

  • OS Version: 22.04.5 LTS
  • Kernel Version: 6.8.0-1052-azure
  • Image Version: 20260531.15.1
  • Systemd version: 249.11-0ubuntu3.20

Installed Software

Language and Runtime

  • Bash 5.1.16(1)-release
  • Clang: 14.0.0, 15.0.7
  • Clang-format: 14.0.0, 15.0.7
  • Clang-tidy: 14.0.0, 15.0.7
  • Dash 0.5.11+git20210903+057cd650a4ed-3build1
  • GNU C++: 10.5.0, 11.4.0, 12.3.0
  • GNU Fortran: 10.5.0, 11.4.0, 12.3.0
  • Kotlin 2.3.21-release-298
  • Mono 6.12.0.200
  • MSBuild 16.10.1.31701 (Mono 6.12.0.200)
  • Node.js 22.22.3
  • Perl 5.34.0
  • Python 3.10.12
  • Ruby 3.0.2p107
  • Swift 6.3.1

Package Management

  • cpan 1.64
  • Helm 3.21.0
  • Homebrew 5.1.14
  • Npm 10.9.8
  • NuGet 6.6.1.2
  • Pip 22.0.2
  • Pip3 22.0.2
  • Pipx 1.13.0
  • RubyGems 3.3.5
  • Vcpkg (build from commit f9ffbaa46a)
  • Yarn 1.22.22

Environment variables

Name Value
CONDA
VCPKG_INSTALLATION_ROOT /usr/local/share/vcpkg

Homebrew note

Location: /home/linuxbrew
Note: Homebrew is pre-installed on image but not added to PATH.
run the eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)" command
to accomplish this.

Project Management

  • Ant 1.10.12
  • Gradle 9.5.1
  • Lerna 9.0.7
  • Maven 3.9.12

Tools

  • Ansible 2.17.14
  • apt-fast 1.10.0
  • AzCopy 10.32.4 - available by azcopy and azcopy10 aliases
  • Bazel 9.1.0
  • Bazelisk 1.28.1
  • Buildah 1.23.1
  • CMake 3.31.6
  • Docker Amazon ECR Credential Helper 0.12.0
  • Docker Compose 2.38.2
  • Docker-Buildx 0.34.1
  • Docker Client 28.0.4
  • Docker Server 28.0.4
  • Fastlane 2.235.0
  • Git 2.54.0
  • Git LFS 3.7.1
  • Git-ftp 1.6.0
  • Haveged 1.9.14
  • jq 1.6
  • Kind 0.31.0
  • Kubectl 1.36.1
  • Kustomize 5.8.1
  • MediaInfo 21.09
  • Mercurial 6.1.1
  • Minikube 1.38.1
  • n 10.2.0
  • Newman 6.2.2
  • nvm 0.40.4
  • OpenSSL 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.23
  • Packer 1.15.3
  • Parcel 2.16.4
  • Podman 3.4.4
  • Pulumi 3.244.0
  • Skopeo 1.4.1
  • Sphinx Open Source Search Server 2.2.11
  • SVN 1.14.1
  • Terraform 1.15.5
  • yamllint 1.38.0
  • yq 4.53.2
  • zstd 1.5.7
  • Ninja 1.13.2

CLI Tools

  • AWS CLI 2.34.57
  • AWS CLI Session Manager Plugin 1.2.814.0
  • AWS SAM CLI 1.161.1
  • Azure CLI 2.86.0
  • Azure CLI (azure-devops) 1.0.4
  • GitHub CLI 2.93.0
  • Google Cloud CLI 570.0.0
  • Netlify CLI 26.1.0
  • OpenShift CLI 4.21.17
  • Vercel CLI 54.6.1

Java

Version Environment Variable
8.0.492+9 JAVA_HOME_8_X64
11.0.31+11 (default) JAVA_HOME_11_X64
17.0.19+10 JAVA_HOME_17_X64
21.0.11+10 JAVA_HOME_21_X64
25.0.3+9 JAVA_HOME_25_X64

PHP Tools

  • PHP: 8.1.2
  • Composer 2.10.0
  • PHPUnit 8.5.52
Both Xdebug and PCOV extensions are installed, but only Xdebug is enabled.

Rust Tools

  • Cargo 1.96.0
  • Rust 1.96.0
  • Rustdoc 1.96.0
  • Rustup 1.29.0

Packages

  • Bindgen 0.72.1
  • Cargo audit 0.22.1
  • Cargo clippy 0.1.96
  • Cargo outdated 0.19.0
  • Cbindgen 0.29.3
  • Rustfmt 1.9.0

Browsers and Drivers

  • Selenium server 4.44.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 151.0.2
  • Geckodriver 0.36.0

Environment variables

Name Value
CHROMEWEBDRIVER
EDGEWEBDRIVER
GECKOWEBDRIVER /usr/local/share/gecko_driver
SELENIUM_JAR_PATH /usr/share/java/selenium-server.jar

.NET Tools

  • .NET Core SDK: 8.0.127, 8.0.206, 8.0.319, 8.0.421, 9.0.117, 9.0.205, 9.0.314, 10.0.108, 10.0.204, 10.0.300
  • nbgv 3.9.50+6feeb89450

Databases

  • sqlite3 3.37.2

MySQL

  • MySQL 8.0.45-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
User: root
Password: root
MySQL service is disabled by default.
Use the following command as a part of your job to start the service: 'sudo systemctl start mysql.service'

PowerShell Tools

  • PowerShell 7.4.16

PowerShell Modules

  • Az: 14.6.0
  • MarkdownPS: 1.10
  • Microsoft.Graph: 2.37.0
  • Pester: 5.7.1
  • PSScriptAnalyzer: 1.25.0

Web Servers

Name Version ConfigFile ServiceStatus ListenPort
apache2 2.4.52 /etc/apache2/apache2.conf inactive 80
nginx 1.18.0 /etc/nginx/nginx.conf inactive 80

Installed apt packages

Name Version
acl 2.3.1-1
aria2 1.36.0-1
autoconf 2.71-2
automake 1:1.16.5-1.3
binutils 2.38-4ubuntu2.12
bison 2:3.8.2+dfsg-1build1
brotli 1.0.9-2build6
bzip2 1.0.8-5build1
coreutils 8.32-4.1ubuntu1.3
curl 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.24
dbus 1.12.20-2ubuntu4.1
dnsutils 1:9.18.39-0ubuntu0.22.04.4
dpkg 1.21.1ubuntu2.6
dpkg-dev 1.21.1ubuntu2.6
fakeroot 1.28-1ubuntu1
file 1:5.41-3ubuntu0.1
findutils 4.8.0-1ubuntu3
flex 2.6.4-8build2
fonts-noto-color-emoji 2.047-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
ftp 20210827-4build1
g++ 4:11.2.0-1ubuntu1
gcc 4:11.2.0-1ubuntu1
gnupg2 2.2.27-3ubuntu2.5
haveged 1.9.14-1ubuntu1
imagemagick 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3ubuntu0.22.04.5
iproute2 5.15.0-1ubuntu2.1
iputils-ping 3:20211215-1ubuntu0.1
jq 1.6-2.1ubuntu3.2
libc++-dev 1:14.0-55~exp2
libc++abi-dev 1:14.0-55~exp2
libc6-dev 2.35-0ubuntu3.13
libcurl4 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.24
libgbm-dev 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.3
libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-7ubuntu2
libgsl-dev 2.7.1+dfsg-3
libgtk-3-0 3.24.33-1ubuntu2.2
libmagic-dev 1:5.41-3ubuntu0.1
libmagickcore-dev 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3ubuntu0.22.04.5
libmagickwand-dev 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3ubuntu0.22.04.5
libnss3-tools 2:3.98-0ubuntu0.22.04.3
libsecret-1-dev 0.20.5-2
libsqlite3-dev 3.37.2-2ubuntu0.5
libssl-dev 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.23
libtool 2.4.6-15build2
libunwind8 1.3.2-2build2.1
libxkbfile-dev 1:1.1.0-1build3
libxss1 1:1.2.3-1build2
libyaml-dev 0.2.2-1build2
locales 2.35-0ubuntu3.13
lz4 1.9.3-2build2
m4 1.4.18-5ubuntu2
make 4.3-4.1build1
mediainfo 22.03-1
mercurial 6.1.1-1ubuntu1
net-tools 1.60+git20181103.0eebece-1ubuntu5.4
netcat 1.218-4ubuntu1
openssh-client 1:8.9p1-3ubuntu0.15
p7zip-full 16.02+dfsg-8
p7zip-rar 16.02-3build1
parallel 20210822+ds-2
pass 1.7.4-5
patchelf 0.14.3-1
pigz 2.6-1
pkg-config 0.29.2-1ubuntu3
pollinate 4.33-3ubuntu2.3
python-is-python3 3.9.2-2
rpm 4.17.0+dfsg1-4build1
rsync 3.2.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.6
shellcheck 0.8.0-2
sphinxsearch 2.2.11-8
sqlite3 3.37.2-2ubuntu0.5
ssh 1:8.9p1-3ubuntu0.15
sshpass 1.09-1
subversion 1.14.1-3ubuntu0.22.04.1
sudo 1.9.9-1ubuntu2.6
swig 4.0.2-1ubuntu1
systemd-coredump 249.11-0ubuntu3.20
tar 1.34+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1.22.04.2
telnet 0....
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macos-15-arm64 (20260527) Image Update

28 May 09:34

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Announcements
[macOS] macos-latest label will use macos-26 in June 2026
[All OS] PowerShell will be updated from 7.4 to 7.6 LTS on all runner images
[All OS] Default Node.js version will be changed from 20 to 22 and Node.js 20 will be removed from runner images
[macOS] The macOS 14 Sonoma based runner images will begin deprecation on July 6th and will be fully unsupported by November 2nd for GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps

🖥️ Actions Runner Image: macOS 15

  • OS Version: macOS 15.7.7 (24G720)
  • Kernel Version: Darwin 24.6.0
  • Image Version: 20260527.0100.1

📣 What's changed?

Updated

Category Tool name Previous (20260520.0085.1) Current (20260527.0100.1)
Package Management Homebrew 5.1.12 5.1.14
Vcpkg 2026 (build from commit e5a4f54c0d) 2026 (build from commit 9b965a1168)
Tools AWS CLI 2.34.50 2.34.54
AWS SAM CLI 1.160.1 1.161.0
CodeQL Action Bundle 2.25.4 2.25.5
Fastlane 2.234.0 2.235.0
Browsers Microsoft Edge 148.0.3967.70 148.0.3967.83
Microsoft Edge WebDriver 148.0.3967.70 148.0.3967.83
Mozilla Firefox 151.0 151.0.2
Cached Tools Node.js 24.15.0 24.16.0
PowerShell Tools PowerShell 7.4.15 7.4.16

For comprehensive list of software installed on this image please click here.

Windows Server 2025 (20260525) Image Update

26 May 15:01

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Announcements
[All OS] PowerShell will be updated from 7.4 to 7.6 LTS on all runner images
[ARM] Arm64 runner images now maintained by GitHub
[All OS] Default Node.js version will be changed from 20 to 22 and Node.js 20 will be removed from runner images
[Windows] windows-latest and windows-2025 image-label will use Windows Server 2025 with Visual Studio 2026 image in June 2026
[Windows] The Windows Server 2025 with Visual Studio 2026 is now generally available in GitHub Actions

🖥️ Actions Runner Image: Windows Server 2025

  • OS Version: 10.0.26100 Build 32860
  • Image Version: 20260525.149.1

📣 What's changed?

Added ➕

Category Tool name Current (20260525.149.1)
Tools Docker Compose 2.40.3

Deleted ➖

Category Tool name Previous (20260518.141.1)
Tools Docker Compose v2 2.40.3

Updated

Category Tool name Previous (20260518.141.1) Current (20260525.149.1)
Package Management Vcpkg (build from commit 432412eeca) (build from commit d015e31e90)
Tools CodeQL Action Bundle 2.25.4 2.25.5
ImageMagick 7.1.2-22 7.1.2-23
Pulumi 3.241.0 3.243.0
CLI Tools AWS CLI 2.34.48 2.34.53
AWS SAM CLI 1.160.1 1.161.0
Browsers and Drivers Google Chrome 148.0.7778.168 148.0.7778.179
Chrome Driver 148.0.7778.167 148.0.7778.178
Microsoft Edge 148.0.3967.70 148.0.3967.83
Microsoft Edge Driver 148.0.3967.70 148.0.3967.83
Mozilla Firefox 150.0.3 151.0.1
Cached Tools Node.js 24.15.0 24.16.0
Ruby 4.0.4 4.0.5
PowerShell Tools PowerShell 7.4.15 7.4.16
PowerShell Tools >
Powershell Modules
AWSPowershell 5.0.214 5.0.218

Web Servers

Name Version ConfigFile ServiceName ServiceStatus ListenPort
Nginx 1.31.0 C:\tools\nginx-1.31.0\conf\nginx.conf nginx Stopped 80
Nginx 1.31.1 C:\tools\nginx-1.31.1\conf\nginx.conf nginx Stopped 80

Visual Studio Enterprise 2022

Name Version Path
Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 17.14.37301.10 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise
Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 17.14.37314.3 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise

Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 > Workloads, components and extensions

Package Version
Component.VisualStudio.GitHub.Copilot 17.14.37230.8
Component.VisualStudio.GitHub.Copilot 17.14.37312.16

For comprehensive list of software installed on this image please click here.

Windows Server 2025 with Visual Studio 2026 (20260525) Image Update

26 May 14:59

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Announcements
[All OS] PowerShell will be updated from 7.4 to 7.6 LTS on all runner images
[ARM] Arm64 runner images now maintained by GitHub
[All OS] Default Node.js version will be changed from 20 to 22 and Node.js 20 will be removed from runner images
[Windows] windows-latest and windows-2025 image-label will use Windows Server 2025 with Visual Studio 2026 image in June 2026
[Windows] The Windows Server 2025 with Visual Studio 2026 is now generally available in GitHub Actions

🖥️ Actions Runner Image: Windows Server 2025

  • OS Version: 10.0.26100 Build 32860
  • Image Version: 20260525.121.1

📣 What's changed?

Added ➕

Category Tool name Current (20260525.121.1)
Tools Docker Compose 2.40.3

Deleted ➖

Category Tool name Previous (20260518.113.1)
Tools Docker Compose v2 2.40.3

Updated

Category Tool name Previous (20260518.113.1) Current (20260525.121.1)
Package Management Vcpkg (build from commit 432412eeca) (build from commit d015e31e90)
Tools CodeQL Action Bundle 2.25.4 2.25.5
ImageMagick 7.1.2-22 7.1.2-23
Pulumi 3.241.0 3.243.0
CLI Tools AWS CLI 2.34.48 2.34.53
AWS SAM CLI 1.160.1 1.161.0
Browsers and Drivers Google Chrome 148.0.7778.168 148.0.7778.179
Chrome Driver 148.0.7778.167 148.0.7778.178
Microsoft Edge 148.0.3967.70 148.0.3967.83
Microsoft Edge Driver 148.0.3967.70 148.0.3967.83
Mozilla Firefox 150.0.3 151.0.1
Cached Tools Node.js 24.15.0 24.16.0
Ruby 4.0.4 4.0.5
PowerShell Tools PowerShell 7.4.15 7.4.16
PowerShell Tools >
Powershell Modules
AWSPowershell 5.0.214 5.0.218

Web Servers

Name Version ConfigFile ServiceName ServiceStatus ListenPort
Nginx 1.31.0 C:\tools\nginx-1.31.0\conf\nginx.conf nginx Stopped 80
Nginx 1.31.1 C:\tools\nginx-1.31.1\conf\nginx.conf nginx Stopped 80

Visual Studio Enterprise 2026

Name Version Path
Visual Studio Enterprise 2026 18.6.11806.211 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\18\Enterprise
Visual Studio Enterprise 2026 18.6.11819.183 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\18\Enterprise

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Windows Server 2022 (20260525) Image Update

26 May 18:29

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[All OS] PowerShell will be updated from 7.4 to 7.6 LTS on all runner images
[ARM] Arm64 runner images now maintained by GitHub
[All OS] Default Node.js version will be changed from 20 to 22 and Node.js 20 will be removed from runner images
[Windows] windows-latest and windows-2025 image-label will use Windows Server 2025 with Visual Studio 2026 image in June 2026
[Windows] The Windows Server 2025 with Visual Studio 2026 is now generally available in GitHub Actions

🖥️ Actions Runner Image: Windows Server 2022

  • OS Version: 10.0.20348 Build 5139
  • Image Version: 20260525.178.1

📣 What's changed?

Added ➕

Category Tool name Current (20260525.178.1)
Tools Docker Compose 2.40.3

Deleted ➖

Category Tool name Previous (20260518.170.1)
Tools Docker Compose v2 2.40.3

Updated

Category Tool name Previous (20260518.170.1) Current (20260525.178.1)
Package Management Vcpkg (build from commit 432412eeca) (build from commit d015e31e90)
Tools CodeQL Action Bundle 2.25.4 2.25.5
ImageMagick 7.1.2-22 7.1.2-23
Pulumi 3.241.0 3.243.0
CLI Tools Alibaba Cloud CLI 3.3.15 3.3.16
AWS CLI 2.34.48 2.34.53
AWS SAM CLI 1.160.1 1.161.0
Browsers and Drivers Google Chrome 148.0.7778.168 148.0.7778.179
Chrome Driver 148.0.7778.167 148.0.7778.178
Microsoft Edge 148.0.3967.70 148.0.3967.83
Microsoft Edge Driver 148.0.3967.70 148.0.3967.83
Mozilla Firefox 150.0.3 151.0.1
Cached Tools Node.js 24.15.0 24.16.0
Ruby 4.0.4 4.0.5
PowerShell Tools PowerShell 7.4.15 7.4.16
PowerShell Tools >
Powershell Modules
AWSPowershell 5.0.214 5.0.218

Web Servers

Name Version ConfigFile ServiceName ServiceStatus ListenPort
Nginx 1.31.0 C:\tools\nginx-1.31.0\conf\nginx.conf nginx Stopped 80
Nginx 1.31.1 C:\tools\nginx-1.31.1\conf\nginx.conf nginx Stopped 80

Visual Studio Enterprise 2022

Name Version Path
Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 17.14.37301.10 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise
Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 17.14.37314.3 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise

Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 > Workloads, components and extensions

Package Version
Component.VisualStudio.GitHub.Copilot 17.14.37230.8
Component.VisualStudio.GitHub.Copilot 17.14.37312.16

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Windows Desktop 11 Arm64 (20260525) Image Update

26 May 14:57

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[All OS] PowerShell will be updated from 7.4 to 7.6 LTS on all runner images
[ARM] Arm64 runner images now maintained by GitHub
[All OS] Default Node.js version will be changed from 20 to 22 and Node.js 20 will be removed from runner images
[Windows] windows-latest and windows-2025 image-label will use Windows Server 2025 with Visual Studio 2026 image in June 2026
[Windows] The Windows Server 2025 with Visual Studio 2026 is now generally available in GitHub Actions

🖥️ Actions Runner Image: Windows 11 Enterprise

  • OS Version: 10.0.26200 Build 8457
  • Image Version: 20260525.56.1

📣 What's changed?

Updated

Category Tool name Previous (20260518.48.1) Current (20260525.56.1)
Language and Runtime Node 24.15.0 24.16.0
Package Management NPM 11.12.1 11.13.0
Vcpkg (build from commit 2b65c20fc6) (build from commit d015e31e90)
Tools CMake 4.3.2 4.3.3
CodeQL Action Bundle 2.25.4 2.25.5
ImageMagick 7.1.2-22 7.1.2-23
Pulumi 3.239.0 3.243.0
CLI Tools Alibaba Cloud CLI 3.3.15 3.3.16
AWS CLI 2.34.48 2.34.53
AWS SAM CLI 1.160.1 1.161.0
Browsers and Drivers Google Chrome 148.0.7778.168 148.0.7778.179
Chrome Driver 148.0.7778.167 148.0.7778.178
Microsoft Edge 148.0.3967.70 148.0.3967.83
Microsoft Edge Driver 148.0.3967.70 148.0.3967.83
Mozilla Firefox 150.0.3 151.0.1
Cached Tools Node.js 24.15.0 24.16.0
PowerShell Tools PowerShell 7.4.15 7.4.16
PowerShell Tools >
Powershell Modules
AWSPowershell 5.0.213 5.0.218

Web Servers

Name Version ConfigFile ServiceName ServiceStatus ListenPort
Nginx 1.31.0 C:\tools\nginx-1.31.0\conf\nginx.conf nginx Stopped 80
Nginx 1.31.1 C:\tools\nginx-1.31.1\conf\nginx.conf nginx Stopped 80

Visual Studio Enterprise 2022

Name Version Path
Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 17.14.37301.10 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise
Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 17.14.37314.3 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise

Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 > Workloads, components and extensions

Package Version
Component.VisualStudio.GitHub.Copilot 17.14.37230.8
Component.VisualStudio.GitHub.Copilot 17.14.37312.16

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Ubuntu 24.04 (20260525) Image Update

26 May 15:02

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[All OS] PowerShell will be updated from 7.4 to 7.6 LTS on all runner images
[ARM] Arm64 runner images now maintained by GitHub
[All OS] Default Node.js version will be changed from 20 to 22 and Node.js 20 will be removed from runner images

🖥️ Actions Runner Image: Ubuntu 24.04

  • OS Version: 24.04.4 LTS
  • Kernel Version: 6.17.0-1015-azure
  • Image Version: 20260525.161.1
  • Systemd version: 255.4-1ubuntu8.15

📣 What's changed?

Added ➕

Category Tool name Current (20260525.161.1)
Tools Docker Compose 2.38.2

Deleted ➖

Category Tool name Previous (20260518.149.1)
Tools Docker Compose v2 2.38.2

Updated

Category Tool name Previous (20260518.149.1) Current (20260525.161.1)
Kernel Version 6.17.0-1013-azure 6.17.0-1015-azure
Package Management Homebrew 5.1.11 5.1.14
Vcpkg (build from commit 2b65c20fc6) (build from commit d015e31e90)
Tools Ansible 2.20.5 2.20.6
CodeQL Action Bundle 2.25.4 2.25.5
Docker-Buildx 0.34.0 0.34.1
Pulumi 3.239.0 3.243.0
CLI Tools AWS CLI 2.34.48 2.34.53
AWS SAM CLI 1.160.1 1.161.0
Google Cloud CLI 568.0.0 569.0.0
Haskell Tools GHCup 0.1.50.2 0.2.5.0
Browsers and Drivers Google Chrome 148.0.7778.167 148.0.7778.178
ChromeDriver 148.0.7778.167 148.0.7778.178
Microsoft Edge 148.0.3967.70 148.0.3967.83
Microsoft Edge WebDriver 148.0.3967.70 148.0.3967.83
Mozilla Firefox 150.0.3 151.0.1
Cached Tools Node.js 24.15.0 24.16.0
Ruby 4.0.4 4.0.5
PowerShell Tools PowerShell 7.4.15 7.4.16

Installed apt packages

Name Version
dnsutils 1:9.18.39-0ubuntu0.24.04.3
rsync 3.2.7-1ubuntu1.2
dnsutils 1:9.18.39-0ubuntu0.24.04.5
rsync 3.2.7-1ubuntu1.4

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Ubuntu 22.04 (20260525) Image Update

26 May 15:02

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[All OS] PowerShell will be updated from 7.4 to 7.6 LTS on all runner images
[ARM] Arm64 runner images now maintained by GitHub
[All OS] Default Node.js version will be changed from 20 to 22 and Node.js 20 will be removed from runner images

🖥️ Actions Runner Image: Ubuntu 22.04

  • OS Version: 22.04.5 LTS
  • Kernel Version: 6.8.0-1052-azure
  • Image Version: 20260525.156.1
  • Systemd version: 249.11-0ubuntu3.20

📣 What's changed?

Added ➕

Category Tool name Current (20260525.156.1)
Tools Docker Compose 2.38.2

Deleted ➖

Category Tool name Previous (20260518.146.1)
Tools Docker Compose v2 2.38.2

Updated

Category Tool name Previous (20260518.146.1) Current (20260525.156.1)
Package Management Homebrew 5.1.12 5.1.14
Vcpkg (build from commit 432412eeca) (build from commit d015e31e90)
Tools CodeQL Action Bundle 2.25.4 2.25.5
Docker-Buildx 0.34.0 0.34.1
Pulumi 3.241.0 3.243.0
Terraform 1.15.3 1.15.4
CLI Tools Alibaba Cloud CLI 3.3.15 3.3.16
AWS CLI 2.34.49 2.34.53
AWS SAM CLI 1.160.1 1.161.0
Google Cloud CLI 568.0.0 569.0.0
OpenShift CLI 4.21.15 4.21.16
Vercel CLI 54.1.0 54.4.1
Haskell Tools GHCup 0.1.50.2 0.2.5.0
Browsers and Drivers Google Chrome 148.0.7778.167 148.0.7778.178
ChromeDriver 148.0.7778.167 148.0.7778.178
Microsoft Edge 148.0.3967.70 148.0.3967.83
Microsoft Edge WebDriver 148.0.3967.70 148.0.3967.83
Mozilla Firefox 150.0.3 151.0.1
Cached Tools Node.js 24.15.0 24.16.0
Ruby 4.0.4 4.0.5
PowerShell Tools PowerShell 7.4.15 7.4.16

Installed apt packages

Name Version
dnsutils 1:9.18.39-0ubuntu0.22.04.3
rsync 3.2.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.4
dnsutils 1:9.18.39-0ubuntu0.22.04.4
rsync 3.2.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.6

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macos-26 (20260525) Image Update

26 May 14:57

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[All OS] PowerShell will be updated from 7.4 to 7.6 LTS on all runner images
[All OS] Default Node.js version will be changed from 20 to 22 and Node.js 20 will be removed from runner images
[macOS] The macOS 14 Sonoma based runner images will begin deprecation on July 6th and will be fully unsupported by November 2nd for GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps

🖥️ Actions Runner Image: macOS 26

  • OS Version: macOS 26.4 (25E246)
  • Kernel Version: Darwin 25.4.0
  • Image Version: 20260525.0161.1

📣 What's changed?

Updated

Category Tool name Previous (20260521.0148.1) Current (20260525.0161.1)
Language and Runtime Node.js 24.15.0 24.16.0
Package Management Homebrew 5.1.12 5.1.13
NPM 11.12.1 11.13.0
Vcpkg 2026 (build from commit f7f94113c3) 2026 (build from commit d015e31e90)
Tools AWS CLI 2.34.51 2.34.53
AWS SAM CLI 1.160.1 1.161.0
CodeQL Action Bundle 2.25.4 2.25.5
Browsers Microsoft Edge 148.0.3967.70 148.0.3967.83
Microsoft Edge WebDriver 148.0.3967.70 148.0.3967.83
Mozilla Firefox 151.0 151.0.1
Cached Tools Node.js 24.15.0 24.16.0
PowerShell Tools PowerShell 7.4.15 7.4.16

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