GitHub Actions makes its Windows 11 Arm64 Visual Studio 2026 image generally available

The runner-images project publishes a supported Windows Arm64 environment with updated development tools.

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GitHub Actions published the Windows 11 Arm64 image with Visual Studio 2026 as generally available, using image version 20260920.164.1. The image updates Pulumi, AWS CLI, GitHub CLI, Chrome and Edge drivers, Firefox, PowerShell, Nginx and Visual Studio components.

Why it matters

Teams can add supported Windows Arm64 CI coverage with a current Visual Studio toolchain instead of maintaining an equivalent custom runner image.

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GitHub Actions runner-images releases

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