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

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Summary

Actions will add the ability to run your workflow jobs on the latest Ubuntu version from Canonical.

Intended Outcome

Developers will be able to build and test their code on the latest version of Ubuntu.

How will it work?

Update your workflows to include runs-on: ubuntu-24.04

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

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