App Engine: re-deploy with node16 fails

Hi.
22.02.2024 we re-deploy App Engine with node16 - and it fails with an error:

ERROR: (gcloud.app.deploy) INVALID_ARGUMENT: Error(s) encountered validating runtime. Runtime nodejs16 is end of support and no longer allowed. Please use the latest Node.js runtime for App Engine Standard..
(p.s. the day before 21.02.2024 - the same process went fine).

In my understanding "End of support" should not affect on re-deploy.
And we planned to move to node18 in 6 month.

Is there anything we can do?
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I have the same problem but with nodejs10.
In the https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/lifecycle/support-schedule?hl=pt-br#nodejs, it says that it has not been discontinued yet, so there is no point in removing the deploy for these versions. 
We also plan to update our version to nodejs20 but in 2 months

My builds are failing too.

The fix is to simply edit your .yaml file, updating to v18+.

INVALID_ARGUMENT: Error(s) encountered validating runtime. Runtime nodejs16 is end of support and no longer allowed. Please use the latest Node.js runtime for App Engine Standard..