Merge branch '2.18' into 2.19

Author: cowtowncoder

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         java_version: ['8', '17', '21', '23']
         # We will actually need "os" as Matrix to have Windows build
-        os: ['ubuntu-22.04']
+        os: ['ubuntu-24.04']
         include:
           - java_version: '8'
-            os: 'ubuntu-22.04'
+            os: 'ubuntu-24.04'
             release_build: 'R'
           - java_version: '8'
             os: 'windows-latest'