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releases and enhancements.

Xcode 16.4 GA Available    

The Xcode 16.4 GA image is now available to be used in CircleCI pipelines.

The full manifest of installed software can be found here.

Xcode 16.4 RC Available    

The Xcode 16.4 RC image is now available to be used in CircleCI pipelines.

The full manifest of installed software can be found here

Xcode 16.3 Available    

The Xcode 16.3 image is now available to be used in CircleCI pipelines.

The full manifest of installed software can be found here

Windows Server 2022 CUDA image    

A new Windows Server 2022 CUDA image has been released. Learn more about the available tags and image contents in our docs. Join the conversation in Discuss.

Xcode 16.2 GA Available    

The Xcode 16.2 GA image is now available to be used in CircleCI pipelines.

Xcode 16.2 RC Available    

The Xcode 16.2 RC image is now available to be used in CircleCI pipelines.

Xcode 16.2 beta 3 available    

The Xcode 16.2 beta 3 image is now available to be used in CircleCI pipelines.

Xcode 16.2 Beta 2 available    

The Xcode 16.2 beta 2 image is now available to be used in CircleCI pipelines.

Xcode 16 RC available    

The Xcode 16 RC image is now available to be used in CircleCI pipelines.

Machine Image Updates August 2024    

CircleCI machine images have been updated with the latest software versions. Learn more about these changes:

Xcode 16 Beta 5 available    

The Xcode 16 Beta 5 image is now available to be used in CircleCI pipelines.

Xcode 16 Beta 4 available    

The Xcode 16 Beta 4 image is now available to be used in CircleCI pipelines.

Xcode 16 Beta 3 available    

The Xcode 16 Beta 3 image is now available to be used in CircleCI pipelines.

Xcode 16 Beta 2 available    

The Xcode 16 Beta 2 image is now available to be used in CircleCI pipelines.

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Linux image current release    

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Linux images have been promoted to the current release. Read the Discuss post. See all available tags.

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Linux images    

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Linux images now available for preview. The candidate images for amd64 and arm64 have been published as edge releases. Read the Discuss post.

Docker24 tag for Remote Docker    

Jobs that use setup_remote_docker can now specify docker24 to use the latest Docker24 image from CircleCI.

Linux CUDA image includes AI/ML-specific software    

CircleCI’s “Linux CUDA” image has been updated to include the Pytorch, Tensorflow, and HuggingFace transformers libraries out-of-the-box.

September Android VM & Convenience (Docker) Image Update    

Firebase CLI was added this month, and our build tools offerings were expanded to include 3 versions of build tools, otherwise just software updates this month.

Discuss post provides more details on the updated VM (docker) image.

Android images July update    

What’s New

A new release for the Android machine image is available, as well as a new Android Docker image. This release consists of software updates. For more details, see the Discuss post for the July 2023 Android update.

2023 Q3 Linux images updates    

What’s New

The quarterly update for Linux images is now available. Note that Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 are both available on amd64 and arm64 architecture under the edge tag, and are scheduled to be promoted to the GA release next week.

Windows Server 2022 June Updates    

What’s New

Image updates are available for the June 2023 snapshot of Windows Server 2022, as well as the current tag. This includes Windows security and OS updates, and package updates for Windows Server 2022.

OIDC for ECR    

What’s New

You can now use CircleCI’s OpenID Connect (OIDC) token to access your ECR images in your pipelines. For more information, see the docs.

2023 May Android images update    

What’s New

The monthly release for the Android machine (VM) and Docker images is now available. This release includes several software updates. For more details, refer to the Discuss post.

Container runner version 3.0.8    

What’s New

  • Upgrade to Go 1.20
  • Migrate Helm chart to new image repository: https://hub.docker.com/r/circleci/runner-agent/
  • Improve error handling and increase reliability in the task worker loop
  • Sample low-value health check logs when using the informational logging level

2023 Q2 Linux images updates    

What’s New

The quarterly update across Linux images is now available. In addition to standard software updates, the following changes have been made:

2023 April Android images    

What’s New

A new release is now available for the Android machine (VM) and Docker images. This release includes several software updates. For more details, refer to the April Update Discuss post.

2023 March Android images update    

What’s New

Android images for both the Docker and machine executors are now built using Ubuntu Jammy 22.04. The default Java version has also been updated from Java 11 to Java 17.

Refer to the Discuss post.

Release 4.1.0    

Before Upgrading

See the CircleCI server 4.1 release notes for upgrade notes for this release.

2023 February Android images update    

What’s New

Updated Android images for both the Docker and machine executors are now available.

2023 Q1 Linux images update    

What’s New

The Q1 update for Linux images is now available, using the following image tags:

Container runner version 3.0.4    

What’s New

  • Log errors from calls to Kubernetes API when loading token secrets on Kubernetes driver startup
  • Set reasonable resource requests and limits for logging containers
  • Add a liveness probe to check the health of the task-agent process
  • Respect node RBAC permission setting in K8s GC
  • Fix for custom Docker registry names
  • Fix for broken pipes while copying task agent when using Alpine-based images on MicroK8s
  • Fix for the task token from being able to be exposed in a job
  • Support Bash parameter expansion syntax in the job config file
  • Improve logging container configuration:
    • Only mount the service account token if there are service containers and therefore a logging container
    • Make the logging container respect the image pull policy of the task pod config, if set. This matches the behaviour of the primary and secondary containers in the task pod.
  • Improve task pod event logging in the Task lifecycle step

December Android cimg and machine images update    

What’s New

A bug has been fixed in the circle-android utility in the machine image used in the Android orb, where the wait-for-boot step would hang.

New deployment convenience images now available    

What’s New

A new set of convenience images have been developed that focus specifically on deployment.

Windows Server 2022 October Update    

What’s New

Image updates for Windows Server 2022, including a variety of package updates as well as the lastest release of current.

2022 Q4 Linux image updates    

What’s New

The quarterly (Q4) revision updates package versions for the Linux family of images. The updated Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04 images are both available on amd64 and arm64 architecture. Images can be accessed with the following tags:

Windows Server 2022 September update    

What’s New

This image update includes security and OS updates as well as package updates for Windows Server 2022.

More details and usage examples are available in the September update Discuss post.

September Android Machine and Docker Images    

What’s New

The cimg-android Docker convenience image adds the r25 NDK, which now supports Android 13. Minor changes have been made to the Android machine image.

Visit the Discuss post for more information.

Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2019 CUDA August updates    

What’s New

Windows Server 2022, Server 2019, and Server 2019 - CUDA current image updates are available. This release includes package updates for Windows Server 2022, as well as security and OS updates.

For more details as well as usage examples, refer to the August 2022 Windows Updates Discuss post.

August Android update for machine and Docker convenience images    

What’s New

August updates are available for Android images. These updates include the removal of Android API levels 23 to 26. These API levels are no longer supported by Android and their removal helps eliminate bloat.

Windows Server 2022    

What’s New

Updates are now available for current tags on the Windows Server 2022 machine image.

Please view the Discuss post for further information on package updates.

Release 4.0.0    

CircleCI server v4.0.0 is now generally available. The feature set for this release are equal to server v3.x. The installation and upgrade processes for v4.x have changed significantly.

Windows executor image updates for `current` tag    

What’s New

This release includes updates to the image current tag for Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2019 - Cuda, and Windows Server 2022.

June Android images update    

What’s New

CircleCI has updated our Android images for June. This release updates key software versioning for the Android Docker image cimg/android, in addition to the Android machine image android:2022.06. The Android machine image has a new naming scheme.

2022 Q2 Linux image updates    

What’s New

The Q2 standard Linux images have been updated. A patch update was released for Heroku and Git fixes. The updated Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04 images can be accessed with the following tags:

Xcode 14 Beta 1    

What’s New

Xcode 14 Beta 1 image is now available on our VM and Metal macOS resource classes. Please see the announcement thread on Discuss for more information about this update.

Windows Server 2022 and Windows Server 2019 Edge image updates    

What’s New

The Windows Server 2019 edge images include OS updates and Windows Server 2022 edge image includes several updated packages (nvm, docker-engine) as well as OS updates.

New deploy convenience image    

What’s New

A brand new convenience image focused on deployment, cimg/deploy, has been deployed in Beta. We are actively seeking feedback from users during this Beta period

Xcode 13.3.1 now available    

What’s New

Xcode 13.3.1 image has been released and is now available on our VM and Metal macOS resource classes. Please see the announcement thread on Discuss for more information about this update.

Enhancement to the IP ranges feature    

What’s New

With this update, Docker image pulls now go through the set of well-defined IPs, with no additional changes needed from your end.

This update enables you to use your private Docker registries with the IP ranges feature and only open up traffic to those registries to IPs associated with CircleCI.