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windows-2022 runner deprecated? No date announced (checked 9 Oct 2026)

Windows Server 2022 runner image: no deprecation announced, checked on 9 October 2026. Nothing changes yet. GitHub has announced no deprecation of windows-2022. It keeps two GA images per OS, and Windows Server 2025 and 2022 are the two, so the next Windows Server image to reach GA would start the 2022 image's deprecation. Since June 2026, windows-latest and windows-2025 carry Visual Studio 2026; windows-2022 is where Visual Studio 2022 lives. The fix: Nothing to change yet. Pinning the version keeps the image from moving under you; the scan reports the date the day GitHub announces one. Check your workflows now, with nothing to install: grep -rnE "windows-2022" .github/workflows

$ grep -rnE "windows-2022" .github/workflows

Run it from the repository root; it needs nothing installed and sends nothing anywhere. It finds each name as written in your workflow files; a value set in another file and passed in (a matrix from JSON, a reusable workflow's input) needs a look of its own. The fix is in the first paragraph above. The dates come from this data.

The facts

What
Windows Server 2022 runner image
Matches
Runner labels windows-2022, in runs-on or a matrix
Effect
Nothing yet
Date
no dateno deprecation announced (checked 9 Oct 2026)
After the date
Nothing changes yet. GitHub has announced no deprecation of windows-2022. It keeps two GA images per OS, and Windows Server 2025 and 2022 are the two, so the next Windows Server image to reach GA would start the 2022 image's deprecation. Since June 2026, windows-latest and windows-2025 carry Visual Studio 2026; windows-2022 is where Visual Studio 2022 lives.
The fix
Nothing to change yet. Pinning the version keeps the image from moving under you; the scan reports the date the day GitHub announces one.

Sources

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actions-eol is a free tool from agentcheck, which runs scheduled checks of your endpoints and alerts you when an answer changes. Dates come from GitHub's own pages, read on the day shown; github.com only, since GitHub Enterprise Server keeps its own schedule.