Windows 2016 runners being removed in March 2022

[nschonni]

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.

[xzyfer]

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

[MikeMcC399]

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

https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/blob/main/images/win/Windows2016-Readme.md also lists today, March 15, 2022 and it points to issue 4312 in https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues.

[xzyfer]

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

[xzyfer]

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

[MikeMcC399]

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.