diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
index 1ba1779..1b8a923 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   build-and-publish:
     name: Build and publish readit distributions to PyPI
-    runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v2