Merge branch 'alpha' into dependabot/npm_and_yarn/semantic-release-20.1.0

Author: mtrezza

.github/workflows/release-automated.yml

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:
           persist-credentials: false
       - uses: actions/setup-node@v2
         with:
-          node-version: 16
+          node-version: 18
           registry-url: https://registry.npmjs.org/
       - name: Cache Node.js modules
         uses: actions/cache@v2