Avrea product update, October 2026
Runner right-sizing
Avrea now checks each job against the CPU, memory and disk its recent successful runs used. When a runner is too big or too small, job and run pages say so and name the label to switch to. To see a whole workflow at once, choose Right-size in your repository's Workflows tab, where you can also copy a ready-made prompt for your coding assistant to update the runs-on labels. It's on for every organization.
Persistent disks
A persistent disk keeps files between jobs of one repository, on Linux, macOS and Windows. It's for state our package and build caches don't cover, such as a custom tool that only knows how to cache to a directory. Each job gets its own copy of the disk. By default, jobs on your default branch publish their changes to it, while pull requests and other branches start from the published disk and their changes are discarded when the job ends.
Persistent disks are a paid feature, billed per provisioned GB for as long as the disk exists. You can turn one on in a repository's settings.
Announcement · Setup and pricing
Linux runners with half the memory
Two new Linux sizes, 4 vCPU / 8 GB and 8 vCPU / 16 GB, keep the cores of the 4 and 8 vCPU runners with half the memory, at a lower per-minute rate. If a job needs the cores but not the RAM, choose one per job with a label such as avrea-ubuntu-latest-4-vcpu-8gb. The new sizes are available on x86 and ARM.
Run graph
In the Avrea console, open a GitHub Actions workflow run and expand Run graph to see its jobs in the order they depended on each other, so the job everything else was waiting for is easy to spot. Each job shows its status and how long it took, and selecting one opens its steps and logs. You can also scrub a timeline to see what was queued, running or finished at any moment.
More downloads from the cache
Homebrew bottles, mise tool downloads and GitHub release assets can now come from the cache beside your runners, and your install commands stay the same. Checksum and signature verification stay on. All three are off by default, and you can turn them on per organization or repository in Settings. Homebrew and mise also need the Package Manager Cache.
Electron, Cypress and Selenium downloads now come from the same cache on Linux, macOS and Windows. They're on by default, you install them the way you already do, and each has its own switch in Settings.
Homebrew · mise · GitHub release assets · Electron · Cypress · Selenium
Fastest in RunsOn's benchmark
Avrea is the fastest GitHub Actions runner in RunsOn's benchmark, 163% faster than GitHub.
Everything that shipped is in the changelog.
