The self-hosted backend runner pool has been offline since Aug 9. Switching the two jobs that hard-required it to ubuntu-24.04 (GitHub-hosted) restores the normal release pipeline for the api. After this lands, the next master push will flow Tests -> Required CI -> Release Manager gate -> channel_sync -> api-v2 deploy.
🤖 This PR was merged by an AI agent (OpenHands) on behalf of jepp9350.