ci: optimised the CI pipeline and updated dependencies

.github/workflows/ci-build.yml

@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@ name: "Build"
 
 on:
   push:
-    branches: [master, develop]
-  pull_request:
-    # The branches below must be a subset of the branches above
-    branches: [master, develop]
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       reason:
@@ -22,10 +18,10 @@ jobs:
 
     timeout-minutes: 5
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
-          node-version: 14
+          node-version: 18
           registry-url: https://registry.npmjs.org/
       # Skip post-install scripts here, as a malicious
       # script could steal NODE_AUTH_TOKEN.
@@ -44,10 +40,10 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
-          node-version: 14
+          node-version: 18
           registry-url: https://registry.npmjs.org/
       # Skip post-install scripts here, as a malicious
       # script could steal NODE_AUTH_TOKEN.

.github/workflows/ci-codeql-analysis.yml

@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@ name: "CodeQL Analysis"
 
 on:
   push:
-    branches: [master, develop]
-  pull_request:
-    # The branches below must be a subset of the branches above
-    branches: [master, develop]
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       reason:

.github/workflows/ci-npm-publish.yml

@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ jobs:
 
     timeout-minutes: 5
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
-          node-version: 14
+          node-version: 20
           registry-url: https://registry.npmjs.org/
       # Skip post-install scripts here, as a malicious
       # script could steal NODE_AUTH_TOKEN.
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ jobs:
     needs: build
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
-          node-version: 14
+          node-version: 20
           registry-url: https://registry.npmjs.org/
       # Skip post-install scripts here, as a malicious
       # script could steal NODE_AUTH_TOKEN.