refactor!: cleanup `AbortSignal` handling (#1654)

BREAKING CHANGE: tedious now requires Node.js version 18.17 or later.

fix: update to `semantic-release@22.0.12` to enable npm provenance su…

…pport (#1653)

fix: update package configuration to publish provenance data (#1652)

* fix: update package configuration to publish provenance data

* Move signature audit and permission configuration to the correct job.

feat: enable release attestation through GitHub Actions (#1651)

feat: set error cause if available (#1649)

ci: improve github actions (#1573)

* ci: use built-in npm caching

The setup-node action automatically stores caches for NPM and uses the
same logic as the current action implementation, so there's no need to
duplicate it in the action definition.

* ci: remove npm upgrade step

The npm upgrade steps in CI only run if the matrix version for node is 6.x
but 6.x is not a tested version of node in any of the matrix definitions.

* ci: only checkout latest history for lint step

The linting step does not need the entire repository history to
run. Only checkout the minimal history to allow faster lint step.

* ci: use setup-sqlserver action for installing SQL Server

fix: don't throw in _transform of BulkLoad (#1590)

feat: provide better error messages when input param is invalid (#1603)


Co-authored-by: Michael Sun <47126816+MichaelSun90@users.noreply.github.com>

ci: add a build specific to token credential support

fix: don't convert BigInt type to Number before writing to buffer to …

…prevent RangeError (#1642)