Ubuntu 26.04 Arm64 (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 26.04 LTS

• OS Version: 26.04 LTS
• Kernel Version: 7.0.0-1007-azure
• Image Version: 20260629.44.2
• Systemd version: 259.5-0ubuntu3

📣 What's changed?

Updated

Category	Tool name	Previous (20260623.39.1)	Current (20260629.44.2)
Language and Runtime	Node.js	24.17.0	24.18.0
Package Management	Homebrew	6.0.3	6.0.5
	Npm	11.13.0	11.16.0
	Pipx	1.14.1	1.15.0
	Vcpkg	(build from commit f919315bf2)	(build from commit a040002471)
Project Management	Gradle	9.6.0	9.6.1
CLI Tools	Azure CLI (azure-devops)	1.0.4	1.0.5
Browsers and Drivers	Mozilla Firefox	152.0.1	152.0.3

Installed apt packages

Name	Version
tar	1.35+dfsg-4
tar	1.35+dfsg-4ubuntu0.1

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