Update your actions to run on Node 16 instead of Node 12 on GitHub

While I've seen it claimed that this question was answered elsewhere, it was not. I am getting a complaint about using Node 12 instead of Node 16 in this code:

There is no documentation that says exactly what is the difference between Node 12 and Node 16 (at least not in the provided links.) The

  lint-flake8:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: flake8
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        python-version: [3.8]
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: Set up Python ${{matrix.python-version}}
      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
      with:
        python-version: ${{matrix.python-version}}
    - name: flake8
      continue-on-error: false
      run: |
        pip install flake8
        flake8 pyuvm tests/pytests

The supposed answer on StackExchange (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75061837/github-actions-node-js-12-actions-are-deprecated-although-i-upgraded-everyt) says something about run vs runs.

Do I just change the word run to runs in the last command?

You probably need to upgrade the actions to the latest version:

- uses: actions/checkout@v3
- uses: actions/setup-python@v4

Both now have a much newer version.

The easiest way to stay current is to enable Dependabot for GitHub Actions.

Then add a file to your repo to enable dependabot (/.github/dependabot.yml) for actions:

version: 2
updates:
  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
    directory: "/" 
    schedule:
      interval: "weekly"

You then get updates that keep you up to date automatically: