Node version requirement
semantic-release is written using the latest ECMAScript 2017 features, without transpilation which requires Node version 18.0.0 or higher.
semantic-release is meant to be used in a CI environment as a development support tool, not as a production dependency. Therefore, the only constraint is to run the
semantic-release in a CI environment providing version of Node that meets our version requirement.The recommended approach is to run the
semantic-release command from a CI job running on the latest available LTS version of node. This can either be a job used by your project to test on the latest Node LTS version or a dedicated job for the release steps.npx is included with npm >= 5.2 and can be used to download the latest Node LTS package published on npm. Use it to execute the semantic-release command.$ npx -p node@v18-lts -c "npx semantic-release"
If your CI environment provides nvm you can use it to switch to the latest LTS version of Node before running the
semantic-release command.$ nvm install 'lts/*' && npx semantic-release
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