task: Updating the repo

Changing the github instructions to run tests on Go 1.16 and 1.17

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ name: Tests
 on:
   push:
     branches:
-      - master
+      - main
   pull_request:
 jobs:
 
@@ -11,16 +11,15 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        go-version: [1.14.x, 1.15.x]
+        go-version: [1.16.x, 1.17.x]
         os: [macos-latest, windows-latest, ubuntu-latest]
     steps:
     - name: Checkout Code
-      uses: actions/checkout@v1
+      uses: actions/checkout@v2
       with:
         fetch-depth: 1
     - name: Test
       run: |  
-        go mod tidy -v
         go test -race ./...