XS⚠️ ◾ [Autogenerated] Release v1.6.0 (#515)

Autogenerated release for PR Metrics v1.6.0. This includes the latest
dependency updates.

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Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

.github/linters/markdown-link-check.json

@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@
     },
     {
       "pattern": "^https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/manage/publishers/ms-omex$"
-    },
-    {
-      "pattern": "^https://github.com/microsoft/PR-Metrics/blob/main/docs/workload-identity-federation.md$"
     }
   ]
 }

.github/workflows/release-phase-1-internal.yml

@@ -198,8 +198,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: npm – Install Node.js
         uses: actions/setup-node@60edb5dd545a775178f52524783378180af0d1f8 # v4.0.2
         with:
-          # The latest version with NPMv7, which is required to maintain a package-lock.json lockfileVersion of 2.
-          node-version: 16.10.0
+          node-version: 20.14.0
 
       - name: npm – Update Dependencies
         run: npx ncu -u

.github/workflows/release-phase-1.yml

@@ -22,6 +22,6 @@ jobs:
     with:
       major: 1
       minor: 6
-      patch: 0
+      patch: 1
 
 ...

.github/workflows/support/release-phase-1-comment.md

@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
 
 Before completing this PR, the license information **must** be updated.
 
-Note that if `lockfileVersion` is set to `3` (rather than `2`) in [`package-lock.json`][packagelockjson], the license information may not be correctly generated. In this case, you will need to change `lockfileVersion` to `2` and rerun the build.
-
 1. Wait for the entire PR build to complete.
 1. Use the internal Microsoft Component Governance tooling to update [`src/LICENSE.txt`][licensetxt] with the automatically generated license information.
 
@@ -35,4 +33,3 @@ Note that if `lockfileVersion` is set to `3` (rather than `2`) in [`package-lock
 [clearlydefinedharvest]: https://clearlydefined.io/harvest
 [licensetxt]: https://github.com/microsoft/PR-Metrics/blob/main/src/LICENSE.txt
 [packagejson]: https://github.com/microsoft/PR-Metrics/blob/main/package.json
-[packagelockjson]: https://github.com/microsoft/PR-Metrics/blob/main/package-lock.json