Ubuntu 26.04 Arm64 (20260817) 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: 7.0.0-1011-azure
• Image Version: 20260817.95.1
• Systemd version: 259.5-0ubuntu3.4

📣 What's changed?

Added ➕

Category	Tool name	Current (20260817.95.1)
.NET Tools	.NET Core SDK	10.0.400

Updated

Category	Tool name	Previous (20260810.88.1)	Current (20260817.95.1)
Package Management	Helm	4.2.3	4.2.4
	Homebrew	6.0.16	6.0.18
	Pipx	1.16.6	1.16.7
	Vcpkg	(build from commit ddd110b8a0)	(build from commit 60f1f9edbe)
Tools	AzCopy	10.32.4 - available by 'azcopy' and 'azcopy10' aliases	10.32.7 - available by 'azcopy' and 'azcopy10' aliases
	Git	2.54.0	2.55.0
CLI Tools	AWS CLI	2.36.20	2.36.24
	Azure CLI	2.89.0	2.89.1
	Google Cloud CLI	579.0.0	580.0.0
PHP Tools	PHPUnit	8.5.53	8.5.54
Browsers and Drivers	Mozilla Firefox	153.0.3	153.0.4
.NET Tools	.NET Core SDK	8.0.129, 8.0.423, 9.0.119, 9.0.316, 10.0.110, 10.0.302	8.0.130, 8.0.424, 9.0.120, 9.0.317, 10.0.111, 10.0.303
PowerShell Tools	PowerShell	7.6.4	7.6.5

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