Breaking changes

We are going to set Nodejs 18 as the default version across all VM images.

Target date

Image deployment is starting on February 13 and will take 3-4 days.

The motivation for the changes

Node.js 18 has moved to Active LTS status and is ready for general use. We would like to provide images with the latest stable updates as default ones.

Possible impact

If your builds depend on the default Nodejs 16 they can be broken.

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions

Runner images affected

• Ubuntu 18.04
• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 22.04
• macOS 11
• macOS 12
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

Mitigation ways

The recommended way is to pin your workflow to the desired nodejs version using:

https://github.com/actions/setup-node action for GH
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/tool/node-js?view=azure-devops for AzDO