Use Node 24 for release job to get npm 11 (#259)

* Force npm self-install in release workflow

Works around npm's "Cannot find module 'promise-retry'" error when
upgrading to npm 11.6 over the npm 10.x bundled with Node 22.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Use Node 24 for release job instead of upgrading npm

Node 24.15 ships with npm 11.12, which already satisfies the OIDC
publish requirement. Avoids the broken npm self-install in Node 22's
tool cache (npm/cli#8859, "Cannot find module 'promise-retry'") by
skipping the upgrade step entirely.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: mishushakov

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -331,10 +331,10 @@ jobs:
         with:
           version: 9.5
 
-      - name: Setup Node.js 22
+      - name: Setup Node.js 24
         uses: actions/setup-node@v6
         with:
-          node-version: "22.x"
+          node-version: "24.x"
           registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
           cache: pnpm
 
@@ -343,11 +343,6 @@ jobs:
           pnpm config set auto-install-peers true
           pnpm config set exclude-links-from-lockfile true
 
-      - name: Update npm
-        run: |
-          npm install -g --force npm@^11.6
-          npm --version
-
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile