diff --git a/azure-pipelines.yml b/azure-pipelines.yml
index 38ff17833388..640136a00e9b 100644
--- a/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/azure-pipelines.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ stages:
   jobs:
   - job: Skip
     pool:
-      vmImage: 'ubuntu-18.04'
+      vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'
     variables:
       DECODE_PERCENTS: 'false'
       RET: 'true'
@@ -39,13 +39,13 @@ stages:
       strategy:
         matrix:
           Linux_py38:
-            vmImage: 'ubuntu-18.04'
+            vmImage: 'ubuntu-20.04'  # keep one job pinned to the oldest image
             python.version: '3.8'
           Linux_py39:
-            vmImage: 'ubuntu-18.04'
+            vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'
             python.version: '3.9'
           Linux_py310:
-            vmImage: 'ubuntu-18.04'
+            vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'
             python.version: '3.10'
           macOS_py38:
             vmImage: 'macOS-latest'
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ stages:
               graphviz \
               inkscape \
               libcairo2 \
-              libgirepository-1.0.1 \
+              libgirepository-1.0-1 \
               lmodern \
               fonts-freefont-otf \
               poppler-utils \