Windows 11 arm64 VS2026 image generally available
GAVerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026
The Windows 11 arm64 image with Visual Studio 2026 is now generally available on standard and larger GitHub-hosted runners. To use it in GitHub Actions, update your workflow file to runs-on: windows-11-vs2026-arm .
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