Does the N-1 OS policy also effect self-hosted runners?

[wirthual]

Reg.:
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-01-15-github-actions-ubuntu-20-runner-image-brownout-dates-and-other-breaking-changes/

Does this also effect self-hosted runners?

[TingluoHuang]

It depends.
The runner has dependency on dotnet core and node.js
To stay compliance, the runner need to stay on LTS version of dotnet core and node.js.
So, for self-hosted runner, our support OS policy will match the current LTS version of dotnet and node.js we use.