GitHub Actions: GitHub-hosted runners now run Node.js 16 by default (original) (raw)

Improvement

December 10, 2021 • 1 minute read

In the latest update to our GitHub-hosted runners virtual environments, Node.js 16 has become the default version of node and npm 8 has become the default version of npm.

To select the version of Node.js that you use for your projects, we encourage you to use the setup-node action.

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