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macos-15-arm64 (20260527) Image Update

28 May 09:34

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[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

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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

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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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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 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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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 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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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

🖥️ 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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macos-26-arm64 (20260525) Image Update

26 May 14:58

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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: 20260525.0107.1

📣 What's changed?

Updated

Category Tool name Previous (20260520.0098.1) Current (20260525.0107.1)
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 e5a4f54c0d) 2026 (build from commit 775ba6e470)
Tools AWS CLI 2.34.50 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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macos-14-arm64 (20260525) Image Update

26 May 14:49

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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 14

  • OS Version: macOS 14.8.7 (23J520)
  • Kernel Version: Darwin 23.6.0
  • Image Version: 20260525.0091.1

📣 What's changed?

Updated

Category Tool name Previous (20260520.0082.1) Current (20260525.0091.1)
Package Management Homebrew 5.1.12 5.1.13
Vcpkg 2026 (build from commit e5a4f54c0d) 2026 (build from commit aa40adda53)
Tools AWS CLI 2.34.50 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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