# actions/runner-images

> Source code for VM images of GitHub-hosted runners in GitHub Actions and Microsoft-hosted agents in Azure Pipelines: Ubuntu, Windows, macOS with preinstalled software.

- Magnitude: 2.1 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 13,215 total · +13 stars today, ≈ 21 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: DevOps & infrastructure · Language: PowerShell · License: MIT · Created: 2019-06-05 · Last push: 2026-09-25
- GitHub: https://github.com/actions/runner-images · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/actions/runner-images

## Useful for

- Pick the right image YAML label (ubuntu-latest, windows-2025, macos-26) for a workflow
- Check the preinstalled software list in an image before configuring CI
- Build a custom VM image from the repository sources

## Why it’s here

- 13 stars so far today, about 21 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 5 per day, so that's 4.3× as much.
- Over the last two days the pace is 3× that of the previous week and a half.
- The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- GitHub Trending today: #13, +13 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 3,858
- Issues and pull requests: 13,122
- Watchers: 373
- Average over the last week: 9 per day
- Usual pace: 5 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 8
- Latest release: ubuntu22-arm64/20260920.137 (2026-09-25)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-08-28 … 2026-09-26: 1, 1, 9, 6, 7, 5, 5, 5, 4, 5, 4, 5, 4, 5, 6, 4, 1, 6, 2, 7, 4, 9, 8, 4, 5, 6, 4, 16, 9, 13

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending today: #13, +13 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-26 12:21 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.