Upgrade to Ubuntu 2024.04 as GitHub is stuck with Ubuntu-latest at 2022.04.

.github/workflows/ArtifactCleanUp.yml

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   ArtifactCleanUp:
     name: 🗑️ Artifact Cleanup
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
     steps:
       - name: 🗑️ Delete package Artifacts

.github/workflows/BuildTheDocs.yml

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   BuildTheDocs:
     name: 📓 Run BuildTheDocs
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
     steps:
       - name: ⏬ Checkout repository

.github/workflows/CheckDocumentation.yml

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   DocCoverage:
     name: 👀 Check documentation coverage
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
       - name: ⏬ Checkout repository
         uses: actions/checkout@v4

.github/workflows/CoverageCollection.yml

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ jobs:
 
   Coverage:
     name: 📈 Collect Coverage Data using Python ${{ inputs.python_version }}
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
     steps:
       - name: ⏬ Checkout repository

.github/workflows/IntermediateCleanUp.yml

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   IntermediateCleanUp:
     name: 🗑️ Intermediate Artifact Cleanup
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
       - name: 🗑️ Delete SQLite coverage artifacts from matrix jobs
         uses: geekyeggo/delete-artifact@v5

.github/workflows/LaTeXDocumentation.yml

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   PDFDocumentation:
     name: 📓 Converting LaTeX Documentation to PDF
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
       - name: 📥 Download artifacts '${{ inputs.latex_artifact }}' from 'SphinxDocumentation' job
         uses: actions/download-artifact@v4

.github/workflows/Package.yml

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ jobs:
 
   Package:
     name: 📦 Package in Source and Wheel Format
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
     steps:
       - name: ⏬ Checkout repository

.github/workflows/Parameters.yml

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   Parameters:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     outputs:
       python_version:   ${{ steps.params.outputs.python_version }}
       python_jobs:      ${{ steps.params.outputs.python_jobs }}
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ jobs:
             },
             # Runner systems (runner images) supported by GitHub Actions
             "sys": {
-              "ubuntu":  { "icon": "🐧", "runs-on": "ubuntu-latest",  "shell": "bash", "name": "Linux (x86-64)"   },
+              "ubuntu":  { "icon": "🐧", "runs-on": "ubuntu-24.04",   "shell": "bash", "name": "Linux (x86-64)"   },
               "windows": { "icon": "🪟", "runs-on": "windows-latest", "shell": "pwsh", "name": "Windows (x86-64)" },
               "macos":   { "icon": "🍎", "runs-on": "macos-latest",   "shell": "bash", "name": "MacOS (x86-64)"   },
             },

.github/workflows/PublishCoverageResults.yml

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   PublishCoverageResults:
     name: 📊 Publish Code Coverage Results
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     if: always()
 
     steps:

.github/workflows/PublishOnPyPI.yml

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ jobs:
 
   PublishOnPyPI:
     name: 🚀 Publish to PyPI
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
     steps:
       - name: 📥 Download artifacts '${{ inputs.artifact }}' from 'Package' job

.github/workflows/PublishTestResults.yml

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   PublishTestResults:
     name: 📊 Publish Test Results
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     if: always()
 
     steps:

.github/workflows/PublishToGitHubPages.yml

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ jobs:
 
   PublishToGitHubPages:
     name: 📚 Publish to GH-Pages
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
     steps:
       - name: ⏬ Checkout repository

.github/workflows/Release.yml

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
 
   Release:
     name: 📝 Create 'Release Page' on GitHub
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
     steps:
       - name: 🔁 Extract Git tag from GITHUB_REF

.github/workflows/SphinxDocumentation.yml

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   Sphinx:
     name: 📓 Documentation generation using Sphinx and Python ${{ inputs.python_version }}
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
     steps:
       - name: ⏬ Checkout repository

.github/workflows/StaticTypeCheck.yml

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ jobs:
 
   StaticTypeCheck:
     name: 👀 Check Static Typing using Python ${{ inputs.python_version }}
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
     steps:
       - name: ⏬ Checkout repository

.github/workflows/TestReleaser.yml

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ jobs:
 
 
   Image:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     env:
       DOCKER_BUILDKIT: 1
     steps:
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ jobs:
 
 
   Composite:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ jobs:
     needs:
       - Image
       - Composite
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 

.github/workflows/VerifyDocs.yml

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ jobs:
 
   VerifyDocs:
     name: 👍 Verify example snippets using Python ${{ inputs.python_version }}
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
     steps:
       - name: ⏬ Checkout repository

.github/workflows/_Checking_ArtifactCleanup.yml

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ jobs:
     name: Package generation
     needs:
       - Params
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
       - name: Package creation
         run: echo "Package" >> package.txt

.github/workflows/_Checking_Parameters.yml

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ jobs:
       - Params_Exclude
       - Params_Disable
       - Params_All
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     defaults:
       run:
         shell: python

doc/Action/Releaser.rst

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ The following block shows a minimal YAML workflow file:
 
    jobs:
      mwe:
-       runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+       runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
        steps:
 
        # Clone repository
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ For prototyping purposes, the following job might be useful:
 
    Release:
      name: '📦 Release'
-     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
      needs:
        - ...
      if: github.event_name != 'pull_request' && (github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' || contains(github.ref, 'refs/tags/'>`__)

doc/Instantiation.rst

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Documentation Only (Sphinx)
        needs:
          - BuildTheDocs
          - PublishToGitHubPages
-       runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+       runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
        steps:
          - name: 🗑️ Delete artifacts

releaser/README.md

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   mwe:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
 
     # Clone repository
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ For prototyping purposes, the following job might be useful:
 ```yml
   Release:
     name: '📦 Release'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     needs:
       - ...
     if: github.event_name != 'pull_request' && (github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' || contains(github.ref, 'refs/tags/'))

tests/python_jobs.py

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ data = {
 	},
 	# Runner systems (runner images) supported by GitHub Actions
 	"sys": {
-		"ubuntu": {"icon": "🐧", "runs-on": "ubuntu-latest", "shell": "bash", "name": "Linux (x86-64)"},
+		"ubuntu": {"icon": "🐧", "runs-on": "ubuntu-24.04", "shell": "bash", "name": "Linux (x86-64)"},
 		"windows": {"icon": "🪟", "runs-on": "windows-latest", "shell": "pwsh", "name": "Windows (x86-64)"},
 		"macos": {"icon": "🍎", "runs-on": "macos-latest", "shell": "bash", "name": "MacOS (x86-64)"},
 	},