Using node18 to support centOS 7 runners

[dhawalseth]

To support CentOS 7 that is not compatible with node20, we need to keep a fork of v4 release that would work with centOS 7 self-hosted runners

Ref issue: actions/runner#2906

[dlemstra]

Node 16 is end of life. But I think it would be wise to switch to node 18 to maintain compatibility with older operating systems. I personally think the move to node20 was to early. I would expect GitHub to use the oldest LTS version. This switch to node 20 has broken some of my builds where I need to check if my binaries still work on older Docker images. All of them work with node 18 but no longer work with node 20 because that requires a recent glibc version. I understand a switch back to node 16 would not be possible but can we please switch back to node 18?

[dhawalseth]

Node 16 is end of life. But I think it would be wise to switch to node 18 to maintain compatibility with older operating systems. I personally think the move to node20 was to early. I would expect GitHub to use the oldest LTS version. This switch to node 20 has broken some of my builds where I need to check if my binaries still work on older Docker images. All of them work with node 18 but no longer work with node 20 because that requires a recent glibc version. I understand a switch back to node 16 would not be possible but can we please switch back to node 18?

Sounds good. can move to node18. 👍