diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 2561371..635c9c4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ jobs:
         - Ubuntu-20.04
         - Ubuntu-22.04
         nodejs:
-        - 12
+        - 16
       fail-fast: false
     steps:
     - name: Turn off auto-crlf
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f5eb524..b6425ca 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 
 * add `windows-2022`, `macos-11`, `macos-12`, `ubuntu-22.04`, and `CentOS 8 Stream (Docker container)`
 * drop `ubuntu-16.04`, and `CentOS 8 (Docker container)`
+* [update Node.js version to 16](https://github.blog/changelog/2022-09-22-github-actions-all-actions-will-begin-running-on-node16-instead-of-node12/) (thanks [@duddu](https://github.com/duddu))
 
 ## [2.3.1] - 2021-08-01
 
diff --git a/action.yml b/action.yml
index 6fab2b1..79d2cfa 100644
--- a/action.yml
+++ b/action.yml
@@ -26,5 +26,5 @@ inputs:
     required: false
     default: "fail"
 runs:
-  using: "node12"
+  using: "node16"
   main: "lib/index.js"