We were previously setting this to 18.04, but 20.04 is the latest stable release of Ubuntu. I figure we can just go with ubuntu-latest (which is currently an alias for 20.04) to avoid having to specify a version number. Open to specifying 20.04 instead.. or any other possible approaches.
(Addresses note from @ashoat at: https://phab.comm.dev/D4239?id=13406#inline-25982)