Skipbox blog

Notes from building Skipbox, runners for GitHub Actions at one flat monthly price.

• Every GitHub Actions pricing change in 2026, with dates and GitHub's own words

  What changed in GitHub Actions billing in 2026, as read on November 9, 2026: hosted-runner rates cut by up to 39% on January 1, the $0.002 self-hosted runner charge announced for March 1 and postponed, Copilot code review on Actions from June 1, the minimum self-hosted runner version enforced on Enterprise Cloud from September 29, and included minutes rewritten as dollars on October 28. Each change dated, in GitHub's words, with what it does to a bill and the pages that still carry the old text.

  Updated November 9, 2026

• ubuntu-latest is moving to Ubuntu 26.04 (October 19 to November 19, 2026): what breaks and how to pin 24.04

  GitHub is moving the ubuntu-latest label from Ubuntu 24.04 to Ubuntu 26.04 between October 19 and November 19, 2026. How to tell which image a job got, what changed between the two images (Java 25 by default, no Java 8, GCC 15, Python 3.14, Docker 29, sudo-rs), the breaks reported in GitHub's issue tracker, and how to pin ubuntu-24.04 while you fix the job.

  Updated November 9, 2026