Announcements
[Ubuntu] `ubuntu-latest` label will use Ubuntu 26.04 in November 2026
[Ubuntu] Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 26.04 Arm64 are now generally available
[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

🖥️ Actions Runner Image: Ubuntu 24.04

📣 What's changed?

Category	Tool name	Previous (20260927.320.1)	Current (20261004.327.1)
Package Management	Homebrew	7.0.6	7.0.7
Package Management	Vcpkg	(build from commit 07f4812200)	(build from commit 19780d9cdf)
Project Management	Maven	3.9.16	3.10.0
Tools	Docker-Buildx	0.37.1	0.37.2
	Kustomize	5.8.1	5.8.2
	OpenSSL	3.0.13-0ubuntu3.15	3.0.13-0ubuntu3.16
	Pulumi	3.265.0	3.267.0
	yq	4.53.6	4.54.1
CLI Tools	AWS CLI	2.37.4	2.37.9
	GitHub CLI	2.101.0	2.102.0
	Google Cloud CLI	586.0.0	587.0.0
Rust Tools	Cargo	1.98.1	1.99.0
	Rust	1.98.1	1.99.0
	Rustdoc	1.98.1	1.99.0
Rust Tools > Packages	Rustfmt	1.9.0	1.10.0
Browsers and Drivers	Google Chrome	154.0.8037.57	154.0.8037.97
	ChromeDriver	154.0.8037.57	154.0.8037.92
	Microsoft Edge	154.0.4258.37	154.0.4258.53
	Microsoft Edge WebDriver	154.0.4258.37	154.0.4258.53
	Selenium server	4.49.0	4.50.0
	Mozilla Firefox	156.0	157.0
Cached Tools	Python	3.10.21, 3.11.16, 3.12.14, 3.13.15, 3.14.7	3.10.22, 3.11.17, 3.12.15, 3.13.16, 3.14.8
PowerShell Tools > PowerShell Modules	Microsoft.Graph	2.40.0	2.41.0

Package Name	Version
~~NDK~~	27.3.13750724 (default) 28.2.13676358 29.0.14206865
NDK	27.3.13750724 (default) 29.0.14206865 30.0.16248370

Name	Value
~~ANDROID_NDK_LATEST_HOME~~	~~/usr/local/lib/android/sdk/ndk/29.0.14206865~~
ANDROID_NDK_LATEST_HOME	/usr/local/lib/android/sdk/ndk/30.0.16248370

Name	Version
~~libssl-dev~~	~~3.0.13-0ubuntu3.15~~
libssl-dev	3.0.13-0ubuntu3.16

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