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GitHub Actions – Windows Server 2016 virtual environment will be removed January 2020

The Windows Server 2016 virtual environment will be removed from GitHub Actions in January 2020. You will need to update your workflow files to run on windows-latest which will run on the Windows Server 2019 environment instead. Please leave feedback and questions in the actions/virtual-environments repository.

Updated 12/10: The deprecation date has been moved from December 3, 2019 to January 2020.
Updated 11/7: The deprecation date has been moved from November 7, 2019 to December 3, 2019.

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GitHub Actions – Windows Server 2016 virtual environment will be removed January 2020 - GitHub Changelog