chore: merge main into staging - #199

Node.js 20 is deprecated. The following actions target Node.js 20 but are being forced to run on Node.js 24: actions/create-github-app-token@d72941d797fd3113feb6b93fd0dec494b13a2547, googleapis/release-please-action@5c625bfb5d1ff62eadeeb3772007f7f66fdcf071. For more information see: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-09-19-deprecation-of-node-20-on-github-actions-runners/