GitHub's New Runner Deprecation API: Automate Your Self-Hosted Fleet Audit If you manage self-hosted GitHub Actions runners, you've probably already been checking versions by hand — SSH into a box, run ./run.sh --version, repeat for every machine. On September 3, 2026, GitHub shipped a REST API that makes that manual …

GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runners: Fix Your Version Before the September 25 Enforcement If your CI/CD pipeline runs on self-hosted GitHub Actions runners, GitHub has already started intermittently blocking outdated ones. Brownouts began August 24, 2026 on github.com and GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and they escalate on a …