Node20 will reach end-of-life (EOL) in April of 2026. As a result we have started the deprecation process of Node20 for GitHub Actions. We plan to migrate all actions to run on Node24 in the fall of 2025.

The newest GitHub runner (v2.328.0) now supports both Node20 and Node24 and uses Node20 as the default version. If you’d like to test Node24 ahead of time, set FORCE_JAVASCRIPT_ACTIONS_TO_NODE24=true as an env in your workflow or as an environment variable on your runner machine to force the use of Node24.

Beginning on March 4th, 2026, runners will begin using Node24 by default. To opt out of this and continue using Node20 after this date, set ACTIONS_ALLOW_USE_UNSECURE_NODE_VERSION=true as an env in your workflow or as an environment variable on your runner machine. This will only work until we upgrade the runner and remove Node20 later in the summer of 2026.

Removal of operating system support with Node24

Node24 is incompatible with macOS 13.4 and lower versions.

Node 24 does not have official support for ARM32, so self-hosted runners on ARM32 will no longer be supported after Node 20 deprecation.

To find out more about the OS versions we support and self-hosted runner architectures, please read our documentation.

What you need to do

For Actions maintainers: Update your actions to run on Node24 instead of Node20 (Actions configuration settings)
For Actions users: Update your workflows with latest versions of the actions that run on Node24 (Using versions for Actions)

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