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Windows Server 2025 is now available

Open shamil-mubarakshin opened this issue 2 months ago • 4 comments

Breaking changes

Windows Server 2025 is now available for GitHub Actions users. You can use the windows-2025 image label in your YAML to select this image.

GitHub Actions

jobs:
  jobName:
    runs-on: windows-2025

The image is marked as "beta" for now. It means some software can be unstable on the new platform. Also, there could be queueing issues as the capacity will be balanced only throughout the next weeks. Please report any problems with the new image to this repository.

Platforms affected

  • [ ] Azure DevOps
  • [X] GitHub Actions

Runner images affected

  • [ ] Ubuntu 20.04
  • [ ] Ubuntu 22.04
  • [ ] Ubuntu 24.04
  • [ ] macOS 11
  • [ ] macOS 12
  • [ ] macOS 13
  • [ ] macOS 13 Arm64
  • [ ] macOS 14
  • [ ] macOS 14 Arm64
  • [ ] Windows Server 2019
  • [ ] Windows Server 2022
  • [x] Windows Server 2025

Software difference between Windows Server 2022 and Windows Server 2025

Tool name Windows Server 2022 Windows Server 2025 Notes
Go
  • 1.20.* (cached)
  • 1.21.* (default)
  • 1.22.* (cached)
  • 1.23.* (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:
Node.js
  • 16.* (cached)
  • 18.* (default)
  • 20.* (cached)
  • 22.* (cached)
  • 18.* (cached)
  • 20.* (cached)
  • 22.* (default)
 If your use-case requires using any of these versions, consider using tasks to install Node.js on-flight:
Ruby
  • 3.0.* (default)
  • 3.1.* (cached)
  • 3.2.* (cached)
  • 3.1.* (cached)
  • 3.2.* (cached)
  • 3.3.* (default)
Python
  • 3.7.* (cached)
  • 3.8.* (cached)
  • 3.9.* (default)
  • 3.10.* (cached)
  • 3.11.* (cached)
  • 3.12.* (cached)
  • 3.9.* (default)
  • 3.10.* (cached)
  • 3.11.* (cached)
  • 3.12.* (default)
  • 3.13.* (cached)
 On GitHub Actions, actions/setup-python can install any version on-flight so this change doesn't impact users
PyPy
  • 2.7.* (cached)
  • 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
LLVM 18.* 19.* Updated to the recent version
strawberryperl 5.32.1 5.40.0 Updated to the recent version
maven 3.8.* 3.9.* Updated to the recent version
InnoSetup latest available - Removed from the Windows Server 2025 image due to maintenance reasons.
Mercurial 5.0.0 - Removed from the Windows Server 2025 image due to maintenance reasons.
mingw 12.2.0 14.2.0 Includes updates to
  • gcc
  • GNU gdb
  • GNU Binutils
NSIS 3.10 - Removed from the Windows Server 2025 image due to maintenance reasons.
openssl 1.1.1 3.4.0 Updated to the recent version
Azure Service Fabric runtime 9.1.1436.9590 10.1.2493.9590 Updated to the recent version
Azure Service Fabric SDK 6.1.1436 7.0.2712 Updated to the recent version
svn (tortoisesvn) latest available - Removed from the Windows Server 2025 image due to maintenance reasons.
Alibaba Cloud CLI latest available - Removed from the Windows Server 2025 image due to maintenance reasons.
bindgen latest available - Removed from the Windows Server 2025 image due to maintenance reasons.
cargo-audit latest available - Removed from the Windows Server 2025 image due to maintenance reasons.
cargo-outdated latest available - Removed from the Windows Server 2025 image due to maintenance reasons.
cbindgen latest available - Removed from the Windows Server 2025 image due to maintenance reasons.
Java
  • 8.* (default)
  • 11.*
  • 17.*
  • 21.*
  • 8.*
  • 11.*
  • 17.* (default)
  • 21.*
Default Java switched to 17.* for Windows Server 2025 image.
PostgreSQL 14.12 17.* Updated to the recent version
MongoDB 5.0.* 7.0.* Updated to the recent version
Visual Studio components * Excluded
  • Component.Unreal.Android
  • Component.Xamarin
  • Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows10SDK.19041
  • Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows10SDK.20348
  • Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows11SDK.22000
  • Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows11SDK.22621
 Removed from the Windows Server 2025 image due to maintenance reasons.
.NET Core SDK
  • 6.*
  • 7.*
  • 8.*
  • 9*
  • 8.*
  • 9.*
Please consider using tasks to install any version on-flight:
PowerShell modules * Excluded
  • AzureRM
  • Azure
 Removed from the Windows Server 2025 image due to maintenance reasons.
Android Command Line Tools 8.0 16.0 Updated to the recent version
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
  • 35.0.0
 Updated to the recent version
Android cmake
    • 3.18.1
    • 3.22.1
    • 3.22.1
    • 3.30.5
 Updated to the recent version
Cached Docker images
  • mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:ltsc2022
  • mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:ltsc2022
  • mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/aspnet:4.8-windowsservercore-ltsc2022
  • mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/runtime:4.8-windowsservercore-ltsc2022
  • mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/sdk:4.8-windowsservercore-ltsc2022
 - Removed from the Windows Server 2025 image due to maintenance reasons.

Miscellaneous:

  • Standalone WDK installation was deprecated. Starting with Visual Studio 17.12, the recommended way to install the WDK is via nuget
  • Only the latest version of Haskell will be installed on the image
  • Temporary user installer and its profile were removed from the image
  • mongo.exe shell has been removed from MongoDB since version 6
  • The following directories were compressed:
    • C:\Windows\assembly
    • C:\Windows\WinSxS
    • C:\Program Files\dotnet
    • C:\Program Files (x86)\Android

shamil-mubarakshin avatar Dec 19 '24 14:12 shamil-mubarakshin