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Improvement

October 12, 2022 • 1 minute read

GitHub Actions: larger Hosted Runners now support `-latest` tag

GitHub now supports using the -latest image label on your larger hosted runners. With the -latest label developers can be sure that their workflows use the latest available GA image in GitHub Actions.
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In general the -latest tag is used for the latest OS image version that is GA. You can find more information about the different image versions in our runner-images repository.

Interested in learning more about larger hosted runners? Read the announcement here or sign up for the beta here.

Apr.15 Retired

Upcoming breaking changes and releases for GitHub Actions

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Apr.14 Release

Windows arm64 hosted runners now available in public preview

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Apr.10 Release

GitHub Actions: macOS 15 and Windows 2025 images are now generally available

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Apr.09 Release

GitHub Actions hosted runner fleet now includes 96 vCPU larger runner

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Mar.24 Release

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

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Mar.20 Retired

Notification of upcoming breaking changes in GitHub Actions

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Mar.18 Improvement

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

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Mar.14 Release

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

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Feb.20 Improvement

Edit the GitHub-owned image on a larger hosted runner

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