Ubuntu 26.04 Arm64 (20260714) 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: 20260714.62.1
• Systemd version: 259.5-0ubuntu3

📣 What's changed?

Updated

Category	Tool name	Previous (20260705.52.1)	Current (20260714.62.1)
	Kernel Version	7.0.0-1007-azure	7.0.0-1009-azure
Package Management	Helm	4.2.2	4.2.3
	Homebrew	6.0.6	6.0.10
	Vcpkg	(build from commit dfcb04008a)	(build from commit 5b9d9a6d0e)
Tools	Ansible	2.21.1	2.21.2
	Bazel	9.1.1	9.2.0
	CMake	4.3.4	4.4.0
CLI Tools	AWS CLI	2.35.15	2.35.22
	Azure CLI	2.87.0	2.88.0
	Azure CLI (azure-devops)	1.0.5	1.0.6
	Google Cloud CLI	575.0.0	575.0.1
PHP Tools	PHPUnit	8.5.52	8.5.53
Rust Tools	Cargo	1.96.1	1.97.0
	Rust	1.96.1	1.97.0
	Rustdoc	1.96.1	1.97.0
Browsers and Drivers	Selenium server	4.45.0	4.46.0
	Mozilla Firefox	152.0.4	152.0.5
.NET Tools	nbgv	3.10.85+c46e47c69b	3.10.91+e05abbcae4
PowerShell Tools > PowerShell Modules	Microsoft.Graph	2.38.0	2.38.1
	Pester	5.8.0	5.9.0

Installed apt packages

Name	Version
curl	8.18.0-1ubuntu2.2
openssh-client	1:10.2p1-2ubuntu3.2
ssh	1:10.2p1-2ubuntu3.2
tar	1.35+dfsg-4ubuntu0.1
tzdata	2026a-3ubuntu1
curl	8.18.0-1ubuntu2.3
openssh-client	1:10.2p1-2ubuntu3.4
ssh	1:10.2p1-2ubuntu3.4
tar	1.35+dfsg-4ubuntu0.2
tzdata	2026b-0ubuntu0.26.04.1

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