Actions: Ubuntu 24 on GitHub-hosted runners (GA)

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Summary

Actions will add the ability to run your workflow jobs on the latest Ubuntu 24.04 version from Canonical. With this release the Ubuntu 24 image will also become the latest Ubuntu runner image with workflows migrating in September 2024.

Intended Outcome

Developers will be able to build and test their code on the latest version of Ubuntu, while using the latest tag within their Actions job

How will it work?

Actions workflows using the ubuntu-latest label will incrementally transition from Ubuntu 22 to Ubuntu 24 beginning September 2024.

To use the Ubuntu 24 image directly, update the runs-on: key in you workflow file to ubuntu-24.04 To run on the -latest tag, use the ubuntu-latest label.

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Run a one-line script
        run: echo Hello from Octo Organization