Update Go and golangci-lint version

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ jobs:
         go:
           - 1.14.x
           - 1.15.x
+          - 1.16.x
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     name: Go ${{ matrix.go }}
 
@@ -55,9 +56,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v2
         with:
           # Required: the version of golangci-lint is required and must be specified without patch version: we always use the latest patch version.
-          version: v1.36
-          # Optional: show only new issues if it's a pull request. The default value is `false`.
-          only-new-issues: true
+          version: v1.41
           args: --verbose --timeout 5m
 
       - name: Check go.mod/go.sum

.golangci.yml

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ linters:
     - govet
 
     # make sure names and comments are used according to the conventions
-    - golint
+    - revive
 
     # detect when assignments to existing variables are not used
     - ineffassign

README.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Rest Server is a high performance HTTP server that implements restic's [REST bac
 
 ## Requirements
 
-Rest Server requires Go 1.11 or higher to build.  The only tested compiler is the official Go compiler.  Building server with `gccgo` may work, but is not supported.
+Rest Server requires Go 1.14 or higher to build.  The only tested compiler is the official Go compiler.  Building server with `gccgo` may work, but is not supported.
 
 The required version of restic backup client to use with `rest-server` is [v0.7.1](https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.7.1) or higher.