diff --git a/.github/workflows/checks.yaml b/.github/workflows/checks.yaml
index 47c313da6..aa7a29c6d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/checks.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/checks.yaml
@@ -349,7 +349,10 @@ jobs:
           - target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
         features:
           - ''
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # At the time of writing, 'latest' referred to ubuntu-22
+    # for libabigail we really need ubuntu-24, which just started getting rolled out
+    # In the future, this can likely be changed to `ubuntu-latest` again.
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
       - name: Checkout sources
         uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11
@@ -379,3 +382,11 @@ jobs:
           export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/cargo-cbuild-libbzip2-rs/usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
           ./bzpipe < Cargo.toml | ./bzpipe -d > out.txt
           cmp -s Cargo.toml out.txt
+      - name: verify api surface with abigail
+        run: |
+          sudo apt install libbz2-dev abigail-tools
+          LIBBZ2_PATH=$(ldconfig -p | grep "x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so" | head -n 1 | awk '{print $4}')
+          LIBBZ2_FILENAME=$(basename "$LIBBZ2_PATH")
+          abidw $LIBBZ2_PATH > /tmp/$LIBBZ2_FILENAME.abi
+          abidw /tmp/cargo-cbuild-libbzip2-rs/usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2_rs.so > /tmp/liblibz_rs_sys.so.abi
+          abidiff --no-unreferenced-symbols --ignore-soname /tmp/$LIBBZ2_FILENAME.abi /tmp/liblibz_rs_sys.so.abi