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Improvement

December 19, 2019 • 1 minute read

GitHub Actions: Updates to the virtual environments

We’ve fully deployed several updates to the GitHub Actions virtual environments. Highlights include: Upgraded to Visual Studio 16.4.0 (Windows Server 2019) Upgraded to Firefox 71.0 (Ubuntu 18.04, Windows Server 2016,…

We’ve fully deployed several updates to the GitHub Actions virtual environments. Highlights include:

- Upgraded to Visual Studio 16.4.0 (Windows Server 2019)
- Upgraded to Firefox 71.0 (Ubuntu 18.04, Windows Server 2016, and Windows Server 2019)

You can find more information in the docs. Please note that we plan to pause updates until January 2020.

New Releases

Mar.24

Mar.24 actions

Enterprise custom properties, enterprise rulesets, and pull request merge method rule are all now generally available

Mar.24 actions

Mar.14

Mar.14 actions

Actions Performance Metrics are generally available and Enterprise-level metrics are in public preview

Mar.14 actions

Mar.04

Mar.04 accessibility

Improved pull request merge experience is now generally available

Mar.04 accessibility

Improvements

Mar.18

Mar.18 actions

GitHub Actions now supports a digest for validating your artifacts at runtime

Mar.18 actions

Feb.20

Feb.20 actions

Edit the GitHub-owned image on a larger hosted runner

Feb.20 actions

Feb.18

Feb.18 actions

Repositories – Enterprise rules and custom properties updates

Feb.18 actions

Deprecations

Mar.20

Mar.20 actions

Notification of upcoming breaking changes in GitHub Actions

Mar.20 actions

Feb.12

Feb.12 actions

Notice of upcoming deprecations and breaking changes for GitHub Actions

Feb.12 actions

Feb.02

Feb.02 actions

Actions Get workflow usage and Get workflow run usage endpoints closing down

Feb.02 actions