GitHub Actions Runners: Hosted Images, the ubuntu-latest Migration, ARM, Larger Runners and Self-Hosted
Pin the runner label in release and deploy pipelines: ubuntu-latest moves from 24.04 to 26.04 between October 19 and November 19, 2026. The hosted image map, arm64 and larger runners, actionlint's label check, why a label in act is only a Docker image mapping, ephemeral self-hosted runners, the minimum version rule, ARC, 2026 prices and how multi-cloud affects IP allowlists.
8 Nov 2026
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