Ubuntu-latest workflows will use Ubuntu-24.04 image

[ijunaidm]

Rollout will begin on December 5th and will complete on January 17th, 2025.

Breaking changes
Ubuntu 24.04 is ready to be the default version for the "ubuntu-latest" label in GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.

Target date
This change will be rolled out over a period of several weeks beginning December 5th and will complete on January 17th, 2025.

The motivation for the changes
GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps have supported Ubuntu 24.04 in preview mode since May 2024, and starting from July 2024 Ubuntu 24.04 is generally available for all customers. We have monitored customer feedback to improve the Ubuntu 24.04 image stability and now we are ready to set it as the latest. There are a set of packages listed below that we have removed from the Ubuntu 24 image. Please review the list carefully to see if you will be impacted by these changes. We have made cuts to the list of packages so that we can maintain our SLA for free disk space. The images have grown so large we are in danger of violating our SLA if we keep the package list as-is.

The factors we took into consideration when removing packages are as follows:

• How long does it take to install the tool at runtime?
• How much space does it take up on the image?
• How many users are there of the tool?

We understand that our reasoning may not make sense to some of you out there, but please bear in mind that we tried to keep disruptions as minimal as possible, and tried to keep the best interests of the community at large in mind. There is a very large and diverse community using our images, and as much as we would like to, we cannot pre-install every tool on these images.

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions

Mitigation ways
Steps or options for impact mitigation
If you see any issues with your workflows during transition period:

• Switch back to Ubuntu 22 by changing workflow YAML to use runs-on: ubuntu-22.04 We support two latest LTS Ubuntu versions, so Ubuntu 22 will still be maintained for the next 2 years.
• File an issue in this repository

Software Differences
The Ubuntu 22.04 image has a different set of software than Ubuntu 24.04. The most significant changes are listed in the table below:

Tool name	Ubuntu 22.04	Ubuntu 24.04	Notes
Clang	13.* 14.* (default) 15.*	16.* 17.* 18.* (default)	The most recent versions are installed
GCC / GNU C++ / GNU Fortran	9.* 10.* 11.* 12.* 13.*	12.* 13.* 14.*	The most recent versions are installed
PHP	8.1.*	8.3.*	The most recent version are installed
Java	8.* 11.* (default) 17.* 21.*	8.* 11.* 17.* (default) 21.*	Default Java switched to 17.* for Ubuntu 24.04 image.
Python	3.7.* (cached) 3.8.* (cached) 3.9.* (cached) 3.10.* (default) 3.11.* (cached) 3.12.* (cached)	3.9.* (cached) 3.10.* (cached) 3.11.* (cached) 3.12.* (default)	Pre-cached versions currently unavailable. Default version switched to the latest one. On GitHub Actions, actions/setup-python can install any version on-flight so this change doesn't impact users
Go	1.20.* (cached) 1.21.* (default) 1.22.* (cached)	1.21.* (cached) 1.22.* (cached) 1.23.* (default)	If your use-case requires using any of these versions, consider using tasks to install Go on-flight: actions/setup-go (GitHub Actions) Go Tool Installer (Azure DevOps)
PyPy	3.7.* (cached) 3.8.* (cached) 3.9.* (cached) 3.10.* (cached)	3.9.* (cached) 3.10.* (cached)	Deprecated all the versions besides the most recent ones
Ruby	3.0.* (default) 3.1.* (cached)	3.2.* (default)	We need to update 3.3.5
Node.js	16.* (cached) 18.* (default) 20.* (cached)	16.* (cached) 18.* (cached) 20.* (default)	If your use-case requires using any of these versions, consider using tasks to install Node.js on-flight: actions/setup-node (GitHub Actions) Node.js Tool Installer (Azure DevOps) Node 16 will be replaced with Node 22
Heroku	latest available	-	Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
Leiningen	latest available	-	Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
Mono / MSBuild / NuGet	latest available	-	Software is not available for Ubuntu 24 at the moment.
Terraform	latest available	-	Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
R	latest available	-	Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
SVN	latest available	-	Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
Alibaba Cloud CLI	latest available	-	Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
Netlify CLI	latest available	-	Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
OpenShift CLI	latest available	-	Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
ORAS CLI	latest available	-	Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
Vercel CLI	latest available	-	Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
Bindgen / Cbindgen	latest available	-	Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
Cargo audit/clippy/outdated	latest available	-	Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
.NET Core SDK	6.* 7.* 8.*	8.*	Please consider using tasks to install any version on-flight: actions/setup-dotnet (GitHub Actions) Use .NET Core (Azure DevOps)
PostgreSQL	14.*	16.*	More recent version are installed
MS SQL Server Client Tools	sqlcmd / SqlPackage	-	Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
MarkdownPS Module	latest available	-	Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
Android Command Line Tools	9.0	12.0	The most recent version are installed
Android SDK Build-tools	34.0.0 33.0.0 33.0.1 33.0.2 33.0.3 32.0.0 31.0.0	34.0.0	The most recent version are installed
Android NDK	25.* (default) 26.*	27.* (default) 26.*	The most recent version are installed
Cached Docker images	alpine:3.16 alpine:3.17 alpine:3.18 debian:10 debian:11 moby/buildkit:latest node:16 node:16-alpine node:18 node:18-alpine node:20 node:20-alpine ubuntu:20.04 ubuntu:22.04	-	Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.

[ThibaultLesuisse]

Nuget and sqlpackage not being available is a major showstopper for us.

The more I look at this list the more I realize that 24.04 is a step back for a lot of people. People are going to complain when this becomes the ubuntu-latest. Be aware of this and maybe make sure this communication is shown on github/azure devops

But thanks for the heads up!

[MikeMcC399]

@ijunaidm

ubuntu-24.04 is still labeled beta in the overview on https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/README.md#available-images

Will you now be removing the beta tag?

[ijunaidm]

Yes @MikeMcC399 . Its updated and removed.

[zivkan]

@ThibaultLesuisse are you aware that NuGet refers specifically to NuGet.exe (which requires mono on Mac & Linux), as does Azure Pipeline's NuGetCommand, and GitHub Actions' nuget/setup-nuget action?

If you're building your projects with dotnet build, you're much better off restoring with dotnet restore, and not using NuGet.exe or mono at all.

[ThibaultLesuisse]

But we need NuGet.exe to sync our custom Artifacts store. And yes I know that commonly you need to run mono nuget.exe to run it on Mac/Linux. But it doesn't change the fact that a lot of tools are now missing for various reasons. This should be communicated.

[PathogenDavid]

We're also affected by the removal of Mono.

The official Mono repo only lists 20.04, but the package seem to work fine in newer versions–which is how the 22.04 image got Mono:

runner-images/images/ubuntu/scripts/build/install-mono.sh

Lines 15 to 18 in ae99c16

	# There are no packages for Ubuntu 22 in the repo, but developers confirmed that packages from Ubuntu 20 should work
	if is_ubuntu22; then
	os_label="focal"
	fi

Is there a reason this can't be done for 24.04 as well? I tested it briefly and it's working for our relatively simple needs.

Mono is fairly chunky so we'd rather not install it every single workflow run.

[sayhiben]

Hi there - my team is scrambling this morning due to this change. I have detailed the issue on the community forum here, but the tl;dr is that this version bump prevents Python packages from being installed for system Python. Unfortunately, it seems the evaluation of this issue was incorrect:

On GitHub Actions, actions/setup-python can install any version on-flight so this change doesn't impact users

In fact, my team has a large number of workflows created by many different engineers, and around a dozen of our workflows that didn't previously leverage actions/setup-python now have to go through our internal change management process in order to restore stability to our CI/CD

In the future, please announce breaking changes as a deprecation notice on the GitHub Blog. It's the one place we rely on to proactively catch and prevent stability issues from occurring in our pipelines

[obluff]

This morning, several of our CI pipelines broke due to these changes. It would be great to have compatibility with the following dependencies, allowing us to upgrade the ubuntu version in the future without complicating our pipelines 🙇 .

• `gcloud
• `sbt
• libncurses.so.5

[perlun]

@ijunaidm, as far as this is concerned:

GCC / GNU C++ / GNU Fortran

...it could make sense to mark (in the initial description for this issue) that on Ubuntu 22.04, gcc and g++ version 12 11 is the default, whereas on 24.04 version 13 is the default (see https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=gcc for verification).

In other words, if you try to build a regular CMake project which doesn't override the CC or CXX in any way, you get GCC 12 on Ubuntu 22.04 and GCC 13 on Ubuntu 24.04. This has ramifications for some project, e.g. since GCC 13 enables new warnings that may cause existing projects to fail to build (this was the case for us, https://gitlab.perlang.org/perlang/perlang/-/commit/de8dbe3ace6adf1547ffcfb62c9600407728672a#note_3573).

Thoughts on this?

[jommeke22f]

De uitrol start op 5 december en zal op 17 januari 2025 voltooid zijn.

Belangrijke wijzigingen Ubuntu 24.04 is klaar om de standaardversie te worden voor het label 'ubuntu-latest' in GitHub Actions en Azure DevOps.

Streefdatums Deze wijziging wordt over een periode van enkele weken doorgevoerd, te beginnen op 5 december en zal op 17 januari 2025 voltooid zijn.

De motivatie voor de wijzigingen GitHub Actions en Azure DevOps ondersteunen Ubuntu 24.04 in preview-modus sinds mei 2024 en vanaf juli 2024 is Ubuntu 24.04 algemeen beschikbaar voor alle klanten. We hebben feedback van klanten gemonitord om de stabiliteit van de Ubuntu 24.04-image te verbeteren en nu zijn we klaar om deze als de nieuwste in te stellen. Hieronder staan ​​een aantal pakketten die we uit de Ubuntu 24-image hebben verwijderd. Bekijk de lijst zorgvuldig om te zien of deze wijzigingen gevolgen voor u hebben. We hebben de lijst met pakketten ingekort, zodat we onze SLA voor gratis schijfruimte kunnen behouden. De images zijn zo groot geworden dat we het risico lopen onze SLA te schenden als we de Pakketlijst ongewijzigd laten.

Bij het verwijderen van pakketten hebben wij rekening gehouden met de volgende factoren:

• Hoe lang duurt het om de tool tijdens runtime te installeren?
• Hoeveel ruimte neemt het in beslag op de afbeelding?
• Hoeveel gebruikers hebben de tool?

We begrijpen dat onze redenering voor sommigen van jullie misschien niet logisch is, maar houd er rekening mee dat we hebben geprobeerd om verstoringen zo minimaal mogelijk te houden en de beste belangen van de community in het algemeen in gedachten te houden. Er is een zeer grote en diverse community die onze images gebruikt en hoe graag we dat ook zouden willen, we kunnen niet alle tools vooraf op deze images installeren.

Betrokken platforms

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub-acties

Manieren om de impact te beperken Stappen of opties voor Impactbeperking Als u problemen ondervindt met uw workflows tijdens de overgangsperiodes:

• Schakel terug naar Ubuntu 22 door de workflow TALK te wijzigen. runs-on: ubuntu-22.04We ondersteunen de twee nieuwste LTS Ubuntu-versies, dus Ubuntu 22 wordt de komende 2 jaar nog steeds onderhouden.
• Dien een probleem in deze repository in

Softwareverschillen De Ubuntu 22.04-image heeft een andere set software dan Ubuntu 24.04. De belangrijkste wijzigingen staan ​​in de onderstaande tabel:

Gereedschapsnaam Ubuntu 22.04 Ubuntu 24.04 Notities
Klant

• 13.*

• 14.* (default)

• 15.*

• 16.*

• 17.*

• 18.* (default)

The most recent versions are installed
GCC / GNU C++ / GNU Forten

• 9.*

• 10.*

• 11.*

• 12.*

• 13.*

• 12.*

• 13.*

• 14.*

The most recent versions are installed
PHP 8.1.* 8.3.* The most recent version are installed
Java

• 8.*

• 11.* (default)

• 17.*

• 21.*

• 8.*

• 11.*

• 17.* (default)

• 21.*

Default Java switches to 17.* forum Ubuntu 24.04 image.
Python

• 3.7.* (cached)

• 3.8.* (cached)

• 3.9.* (cached)

• 3.10.* (default)

• 3.11.* (cached)

• 3.12.* (cached)

• 3.9.* (cached)

• 3.10.* (cached)

• 3.11.* (cached)

• 3.12.* (default)

Pre-cached versions currently in available. Default version switched to the latest one. On GitHub Actions, actions/setup-python van install any version on-flight so this changelog doesn't impact users
Go

• 1.20.* (cached)

• 1.21.* (default)

• 1.22.* (cached)

• 1.21.* (cached)

• 1.22.* (cached)

• 1.23.* (default)

If your user-case requires using any of these versions, consider using tasks to install Go on-flight:

• actions/setup-go (GitHub Actions)
• Go Tool Installer (Azure DevOps)

PyPy

• 3.7.* (cached)

• 3.8.* (cached)

• 3.9.* (cached)

• 3.10.* (cached)

• 3.9.* (cached)

• 3.10.* (cached)

Dieptecoated all the versions versies the most recent ones
Ruby

• 3.0.* (default)

• 3.1.* (cached)

• 3.2.* (default)

We need to update 3.3.5
Node.js

• 16.* (cached)

• 18.* (default)

• 20.* (cached)

• 16.* (cached)

• 18.* (cached)

• 20.* (default)

If your user-case requires using any of these versions, consider using tasks to install Node.js on-flight:

• actions/setup-node (GitHub Actions)
• [Node.js Tool Installer](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/tool/node-js?view=azure-de opslag) (Azure DevOps)
• Node 16 will bericht relaxed Withaar Node 22

Heelkunde latest available - Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
Leningen latest available - Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
Mono / MS build / Budget latest available - Software is not available die Ubuntu 24 art the moment.
Terraformulier latest available - Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
R latest available - Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
SVN latest available - Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
Alibaba Cloud CLI latest available - Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
Niet-lift CLI latest available - Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
Openshift CLI latest available - Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
KRAS CLI latest available - Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
Vergelijk CLI latest available - Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
Bindgen / Cbindgen latest available - Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
Cargo audit/clippy/outdated latest available - Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
.NET Core SDK

• 6.*

• 7.*

• 8.*

• 8.*

Please consider using tasks to install any version on-flight:

• actions/setup-dotnet (GitHub Actions)
• Use .NET Core (Azure DevOps)

PostgreSQL 14.* 16.* More recent version are installed
MS SQL Server Client Tools sqlcmd / SqlPackage - Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
MarkdownPS Module latest available - Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.
Android Command Line Tools 9.0 12.0 The most recent version are installed
Android SDK Build-tools

• 34.0.0

• 33.0.0

• 33.0.1

• 33.0.2

• 33.0.3

• 32.0.0

• 31.0.0

• 34.0.0

The most recent version are installed
Android NDK

• 25.* (default)

• 26.*

• 27.* (default)

• 26.*

The most recent version are installed
Cached Docker images

• alpine:3.16
• alpine:3.17
• alpine:3.18
• debian:10
• debian:11
• moby/buildkit:latest
• node:16
• node:16-alpine
• node:18
• node:18-alpine
• node:20
• node:20-alpine
• ubuntu:20.04
• ubuntu:22.04

• Removed from the Ubuntu 24.04 image due to maintenance reasons.