Ubuntu 26.04 (20260804) 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
[Ubuntu] Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 26.04 Arm is now available as a public preview

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🖥️ Actions Runner Image: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

• OS Version: 26.04 LTS
• Kernel Version: 7.0.0-1009-azure
• Image Version: 20260804.94.1
• Systemd version: 259.5-0ubuntu3

📣 What's changed?

Updated

Category	Tool name	Previous (20260720.80.1)	Current (20260804.94.1)
Language and Runtime	Node.js	24.18.0	24.19.0
Package Management	Homebrew	6.0.12	6.0.15
	Npm	11.16.0	11.17.0
	Pipx	1.16.1	1.16.6
	Vcpkg	(build from commit 07425ae85e)	(build from commit 9db9ee4daf)
Tools	Bicep	0.45.15	0.46.1
	CMake	4.4.0	4.4.2
	CodeQL Action Bundle	2.26.1	2.26.2
	Docker-Buildx	0.35.0	0.36.1
	Kubectl	1.36.2	1.36.3
	OpenSSL	3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2	3.5.5-1ubuntu3.3
	Packer	1.15.4	1.16.0
CLI Tools	AWS CLI	2.36.3	2.36.16
	AWS SAM CLI	1.163.0	1.165.0
	Azure CLI	2.88.0	2.89.0
	GitHub CLI	2.96.0	2.97.0
	Google Cloud CLI	576.0.0	579.0.0
Browsers and Drivers	Google Chrome	150.0.7871.128	151.0.7922.75
	ChromeDriver	150.0.7871.124	151.0.7922.76
	Chromium	150.0.7871.0	151.0.7922.0
	Microsoft Edge	150.0.4078.83	151.0.4129.59
	Microsoft Edge WebDriver	150.0.4078.83	151.0.4129.59
	Mozilla Firefox	152.0.6	153.0.3
PowerShell Tools	PowerShell	7.6.3	7.6.4
PowerShell Tools > PowerShell Modules	Microsoft.Graph	2.38.1	2.39.0

Java

Version	Environment Variable
11.0.31+11	JAVA_HOME_11_X64
17.0.19+10	JAVA_HOME_17_X64
21.0.11+10	JAVA_HOME_21_X64
25.0.3+9 (default)	JAVA_HOME_25_X64
11.0.32+9	JAVA_HOME_11_X64
17.0.20+8	JAVA_HOME_17_X64
21.0.12+8	JAVA_HOME_21_X64
25.0.4+7 (default)	JAVA_HOME_25_X64

Android

Package Name	Version
Android SDK Platform-Tools	37.0.0
Android SDK Platforms	android-37.2-beta1 (rev 1) android-37.1 (rev 1) android-37.0 (rev 2) android-36.1 (rev 1) android-36-ext19 (rev 1) android-36-ext18 (rev 1) android-36 (rev 2) android-35-ext15 (rev 1) android-35-ext14 (rev 1) android-35 (rev 2) android-34-ext8 (rev 1) android-34-ext12 (rev 1) android-34-ext11 (rev 1) android-34-ext10 (rev 1) android-34 (rev 3)
Android SDK Platform-Tools	37.0.1
Android SDK Platforms	android-37.2-beta2 (rev 2) android-37.2-beta1 (rev 1) android-37.1 (rev 1) android-37.0 (rev 2) android-36.1 (rev 1) android-36-ext19 (rev 1) android-36-ext18 (rev 1) android-36 (rev 2) android-35-ext15 (rev 1) android-35-ext14 (rev 1) android-35 (rev 2) android-34-ext8 (rev 1) android-34-ext12 (rev 1) android-34-ext11 (rev 1) android-34-ext10 (rev 1) android-34 (rev 3)

Installed apt packages

Name	Version
libssl-dev	3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2
locales	2.43-2ubuntu2
tar	1.35+dfsg-4ubuntu0.3
tzdata	2026b-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
libssl-dev	3.5.5-1ubuntu3.3
locales	2.43-2ubuntu2.3
tar	1.35+dfsg-4ubuntu0.4
tzdata	2026c-0ubuntu0.26.04.1

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