2024-June

Feature: WarpBuild now supports custom runner configurations. They can be customized for cost and performance for both arm64 and x86_64 architectures. Read more in the custom runner docs

Enhancement: The WarpCache action now supports cache restores from default branches and base branches (for pull requests). More info.

Feature: Ubuntu 24.04 x64 runners are now available. You can start using them by using the relevant labels like warp-ubuntu-2404-x64-<size>. You can see all the runner labels on the Runners page.

Note: warp-ubuntu-latest-x64-<size> will continue to point to Ubuntu 22.04 until GitHub changes the default runner version for ubuntu-latest.

Enhancement: The Ubuntu 22.04 image has been updated.
Enhancement: Spot runners have been made more reliable. Fallback instance types have been added in case of insufficient capacity from our infrastructure provider.

Enhancement: Added support for various setup-* actions to utilize WarpBuild cache as their caching service. See the Caching page for more information.
Enhancement: MacOS 13 and 14 images have been updated.

Enhancement: Runners page is updated with day wise usage statistics. The workflows section has been removed and the runners table from the billing page has been moved here and updated.
Change: The functionality to automatically raise PRs to switch workflows to use WarpBuild runners has been removed, until it can be made to work robustly for all scenarios including reusable workflows and runner groups.

Enhancements:

x86-64 runners use new processors that are ~20% faster. They are AMD processors using the Genoa (Zen4) architecture.
Disk performance tiering: It is recommended that workloads that are sensitive to high disk performance use larger runner sizes.
32x runners are now on 32 vCPU instances, up from 30 vCPUs earlier. The billing for these runners has been updated to reflect the 2 extra vCPUs.
Spot instances do not get interrupted in less than 1 minute of runtime.
Caching UI: A page has been added to view and manage cache entries from all jobs. The billing page will be added soon, when the billing actually starts.
Billing UI: This has been refreshed to make updating the billing email address more obvious. The page has been cleared of some unnecessary clutter.
Caching updates: Based on user feedback, cache TTL is set to 7 days. This change will go live along with the billing enablement for caching in the next 2 days. There will be a one-time purge of all previous caches when billing is enabled to ensure there are no surprises.

Fixes:

There was a small fraction of runners that was facing intermittent network connectivity issues. That is now resolved.

Fix: Fixed a corner case where the user list is not synced correctly with organizations.

Enhancement: The arm64 runners have been upgraded to use Graviton3 instances that are 25% faster.