Windows 2016 runners being removed in March 2022

Question

nschonni opened this issue 3 years ago · comments

https://github.blog/changelog/2021-10-19-github-actions-the-windows-2016-runner-image-will-be-removed-from-github-hosted-runners-on-march-15-2022/
We currently use them for Node 12 and 14 builds since those platforms supported a lower minimum supported version. We could just bump them to latest or 2019 though.

Michael Mifsud · Answer 1 · Wed Dec 01 2021 07:10:23 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yeah we could just bump them. The release binaries are still being generated by AppVeyor atm.

Mike McCready · Answer 2 · Wed Mar 16 2022 00:43:02 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@nschonni
Today is the deadline which you mentioned for the removal of the Windows 2016 hosted runner.

Michael Mifsud · Answer 3 · Mon Apr 11 2022 13:25:56 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This deadline has passed and the respective github actions are now failing.

Michael Mifsud · Answer 4 · Mon Apr 11 2022 13:26:48 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

We might as well ship this with #3250 and #3249 in the new major.

Mike McCready · Answer 5 · Mon Apr 11 2022 13:55:34 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

According to issue 5238 in https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/ the change was delayed until April 1, 2022, however also that deadline has now passed.