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GitHub will stop sending jobs to stale self-hosted runners

Illustrated infographic summarizing: GitHub will stop sending jobs to stale self-hosted runners

GitHub starts enforcing runner versions on August 24, 2026. Audit and upgrade self-hosted runners before builds and deployments start stalling.

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self-hosted runners

Linux administration

CI/CD reliability

deployment operations

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