refactor: Upgrade semantic release (#9185)

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -42,15 +42,10 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
           node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
-      - name: Cache Node.js modules
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
-        with:
-          path: ~/.npm
-          key: ${{ runner.os }}-node-${{ matrix.NODE_VERSION }}-${{ hashFiles('**/package-lock.json') }}
-          restore-keys: |
-            ${{ runner.os }}-node-${{ matrix.NODE_VERSION }}-
-      - name: Install dependencies
+      - name: Install prod dependencies
         run: npm ci
+      - name: Remove dev dependencies
+        run: ./ci/uninstallDevDeps.sh @actions/core
       - name: CI Node Engine Check
         run: npm run ci:checkNodeEngine
   check-lint:

.github/workflows/release-automated.yml

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:
           persist-credentials: false
       - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
-          node-version: 18.20.0
+          node-version: 20
           registry-url: https://registry.npmjs.org/
       - name: Cache Node.js modules
         uses: actions/cache@v4

.releaserc.js

@@ -2,8 +2,13 @@
  * Semantic Release Config
  */
 
-const fs = require('fs').promises;
-const path = require('path');
+const { readFile } = require('fs').promises;
+const { resolve } = require('path');
+
+// For ES6 modules use:
+// import { readFile } from 'fs/promises';
+// import { resolve, dirname } from 'path';
+// import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
 
 // Get env vars
 const ref = process.env.GITHUB_REF;
@@ -24,7 +29,7 @@ const templates = {
 async function config() {
 
   // Get branch
-  const branch = ref.split('/').pop().split('-')[0];
+  const branch = ref?.split('/')?.pop()?.split('-')[0] || '(current branch could not be determined)';
   console.log(`Running on branch: ${branch}`);
 
   // Set changelog file
@@ -89,7 +94,7 @@ async function config() {
       [
         "@saithodev/semantic-release-backmerge",
         {
-          "branches": [
+          "backmergeBranches": [
             { from: "beta", to: "alpha" },
             { from: "release", to: "beta" },
           ]
@@ -103,15 +108,17 @@ async function config() {
 
 async function loadTemplates() {
   for (const template of Object.keys(templates)) {
-    const text = await readFile(path.resolve(__dirname, resourcePath, templates[template].file));
+    
+    // For ES6 modules use:
+    // const fileUrl = import.meta.url;
+    // const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(fileUrl));
+
+    const filePath = resolve(__dirname, resourcePath, templates[template].file);
+    const text = await readFile(filePath, 'utf-8');
     templates[template].text = text;
   }
 }
 
-async function readFile(filePath) {
-  return await fs.readFile(filePath, 'utf-8');
-}
-
 function getReleaseComment() {
   const url = repositoryUrl + '/releases/tag/${nextRelease.gitTag}';
   const comment = '🎉 This change has been released in version [${nextRelease.version}](' + url + ')';

ci/uninstallDevDeps.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Read package exclusion list from arguments
+exclusionList=("$@")
+
+# Convert exclusion list to grep pattern
+exclusionPattern=$(printf "|%s" "${exclusionList[@]}")
+exclusionPattern=${exclusionPattern:1}
+
+# Get list of all dev dependencies
+devDeps=$(jq -r '.devDependencies | keys | .[]' package.json)
+
+# Filter out exclusion list
+depsToUninstall=$(echo "$devDeps" | grep -Ev "$exclusionPattern")
+
+# If there are dependencies to uninstall then uninstall them
+if [ -n "$depsToUninstall" ]; then
+  echo "Uninstalling dev dependencies: $depsToUninstall"
+  npm uninstall $depsToUninstall
+else
+  echo "No dev dependencies to uninstall"
+fi

package.json

@@ -72,13 +72,13 @@
     "@babel/plugin-proposal-object-rest-spread": "7.10.0",
     "@babel/plugin-transform-flow-strip-types": "7.23.3",
     "@babel/preset-env": "7.24.0",
-    "@saithodev/semantic-release-backmerge": "2.1.2",
-    "@semantic-release/changelog": "5.0.1",
-    "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer": "8.0.1",
-    "@semantic-release/git": "9.0.0",
-    "@semantic-release/github": "7.2.3",
-    "@semantic-release/npm": "7.1.3",
-    "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator": "9.0.3",
+    "@saithodev/semantic-release-backmerge": "4.0.1",
+    "@semantic-release/changelog": "6.0.3",
+    "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer": "13.0.0",
+    "@semantic-release/git": "10.0.1",
+    "@semantic-release/github": "10.1.0",
+    "@semantic-release/npm": "12.0.1",
+    "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator": "14.0.1",
     "all-node-versions": "12.1.0",
     "apollo-upload-client": "17.0.0",
     "clean-jsdoc-theme": "4.2.18",
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
     "node-fetch": "3.2.10",
     "nyc": "15.1.0",
     "prettier": "2.0.5",
-    "semantic-release": "17.4.6",
+    "semantic-release": "24.0.0",
     "yaml": "1.10.0"
   },
   "scripts": {