Ubuntu 24.04 LTS released!

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Breaking changes

Please add support for the latest Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to runner-images

Target date

25th of April 2025.

The motivation for the changes

24.04 has a newer kernel and packages than 22.04.

Possible impact

Eventually developers will want newer compilers etc than are available in 22.04.

Platforms affected

• [ ] Azure DevOps
• [ ] GitHub Actions

Runner images affected

• [X] Ubuntu 20.04
• [X] Ubuntu 22.04
• [ ] macOS 11
• [ ] macOS 12
• [ ] macOS 13
• [ ] macOS 13 Arm64
• [ ] macOS 14
• [ ] macOS 14 Arm64
• [ ] Windows Server 2019
• [ ] Windows Server 2022

Mitigation ways

Make ubuntu-latest point to a VM/container with 24.04 LTS.

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Already available for download here: https://ubuntu.com/download

[Alexey-Ayupov]

Duplicate of #9691