# Linux Machine Executor Update - 2022 October Q4 Update

**URL:** <https://discuss.circleci.com/t/linux-machine-executor-update-2022-october-q4-update/45753>\
**Category:** CircleCI Images\
**Tags:** machine-images, linux-image, machine-executor, ubuntu\
**Created:** [October 12, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/linux-machine-executor-update-2022-october-q4-update/45753 "2022-10-12T23:05:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/linux-machine-executor-update-2022-october-q4-update/45753/1 "2022-10-12T23:05:00Z")

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Hey Everyone!

Quarterly updates across the Linux family with updates are now available with the following image tags:

- `ubuntu-2004:2022.10.1`
- `ubuntu-2204:2022.10.1`

20.04 and 22.04 are both available on amd64 and arm64 architecture

This refresh updates software included in the image, which can be found below. See the  
[20.04 docs](https://circleci.com/developer/machine/image/ubuntu-2004), and [22.04 docs](https://circleci.com/developer/machine/image/ubuntu-2204) for more information about how to use the machine executor and these images, including utilizing the resource class designation for arm machines.

## What’s New

- Standard updates

## Release Cadence

These images are updated quarterly, excluding security updates

## Example

Here’s a quick usage example:

```auto
version: 2.1
workflows:
  main:
    jobs:
      - build
jobs:
  build:
    machine:
      image: ubuntu-2204:2022.10.1
    steps:
      - checkout
      - run: echo "Do some things"

```

## Software

Notes:

- Google Chrome is not available on arm images
- Heroku is not available on arm images

Here is a list of the major software installed on each image. If multiple versions are present, the default is shown here:

| | Ubuntu 20.04 | Ubuntu 22.04 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tag | ubuntu-2004:2022.10.1 | ubuntu-2204:2022.10.1 |
| AWS CLI | 2.8.2 | 2.8.2 |
| Docker | 20.10.18 | 20.10.18 |
| Docker Compose | 2.10.2 | 2.10.2 |
| Docker Compose Switch | 1.0.5 | 1.0.5 |
| Google Cloud SDK | 405.0.0 | 405.0.0 |
| Google Chrome | 106.0.5249.103 | 106.0.5249.103 |
| Firefox | 105.0 | 105.0.2 |
| Go | 1.19.2 | 1.19.2 |
| Node.js | 16.17.1 | 16.17.1 |
| npm | 8.19.2 | 8.19.2 |
| yarn | 1.22.19 | 1.22.19 |
| Heroku | 7.65.0 | 7.65.0 |
| OpenJDK | 17.0.4 | 17.0.4 |
| Leiningen | 2.9.10 | 2.9.10 |
| Maven | 3.8.6 | 3.8.6 |
| Gradle | 7.5.1 | 7.5.1 |
| Python | 3.10.6 | 3.10.6 |
| Ruby | 3.1.2 | 3.1.2 |
| jq | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| yq | 4.24.5 | 4.24.5 |
| SBT | 1.7.2 | 1.7.2 |