Creating Pages deployment failed

HttpError: Invalid deployment branch and no branch protection rules set in the environment. Deployments are only allowed from improve-manual-layout at /home/runner/work/_actions/actions/deploy-pages/v4/node_modules/@octokit/request/dist-node/index.js:124:1 at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) at createPagesDeployment (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/deploy-pages/v4/src/internal/api-client.js:125:1) at Deployment.create (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/deploy-pages/v4/src/internal/deployment.js:74:1) at main (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/deploy-pages/v4/src/index.js:30:1)

Error: Failed to create deployment (status: 400) with build version 1d10b3697d5fa04415d36059d5e04ad71aae0b78. Request ID 6381:2C5B9D:7574DFF:EA34276:676DD96E Responded with: Invalid deployment branch and no branch protection rules set in the environment. Deployments are only allowed from improve-manual-layout

ubuntu-latest pipelines will use ubuntu-24.04 soon. For more details, see https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/10636