Ubuntu 22.04 (20260629) Image Update

Announcements
[Ubuntu] The Ubuntu 22 based runner images will begin deprecation on September 17th and will be fully unsupported by April 17th for GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps
Go versions <=1.23  will be removed from tool-cache
[Ubuntu] Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 26.04 Arm is now available as a public preview
[ARM] Arm64 runner images now maintained by GitHub

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🖥️ Actions Runner Image: Ubuntu 22.04

• OS Version: 22.04.5 LTS
• Kernel Version: 6.8.0-1059-azure
• Image Version: 20260629.205.1
• Systemd version: 249.11-0ubuntu3.21

📣 What's changed?

Updated

Category	Tool name	Previous (20260623.199.1)	Current (20260629.205.1)
Package Management	Homebrew	6.0.3	6.0.5
	Pipx	1.14.1	1.15.0
	Vcpkg	(build from commit 67b5ee32c6)	(build from commit fb67f8d525)
Project Management	Gradle	9.6.0	9.6.1
Tools	Heroku	11.7.0	11.7.1
	Pulumi	3.247.0	3.248.0
	R	4.6.0	4.6.1
	Terraform	1.15.6	1.15.7
CLI Tools	Alibaba Cloud CLI	3.4.0	3.4.2
	AWS CLI	2.35.11	2.35.12
	Azure CLI (azure-devops)	1.0.4	1.0.5
	Vercel CLI	54.15.1	54.18.4
Browsers and Drivers	Google Chrome	149.0.7827.196	149.0.7827.200
	Microsoft Edge	149.0.4022.80	149.0.4022.98
	Microsoft Edge WebDriver	149.0.4022.80	149.0.4022.98
	Mozilla Firefox	152.0.1	152.0.3
Cached Tools	Node.js	22.23.0, 24.17.0	22.23.1, 24.18.0
PowerShell Tools	PowerShell	7.6.2	7.6.3

Installed apt packages

Name	Version
libsqlite3-dev	3.37.2-2ubuntu0.5
sqlite3	3.37.2-2ubuntu0.5
tar	1.34+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1.22.04.2
libsqlite3-dev	3.37.2-2ubuntu0.6
sqlite3	3.37.2-2ubuntu0.6
tar	1.34+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1.22.04.3

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