Upgrade to Node JS v20 #3156
Description
Problem
The relay currently uses node version 18 which has an end of life at the end of April 2025
Solution
Upgrade to the latest LTS version which is currently v20
- Update reference of v18 to latest LTS v20
- Run complete acceptance test suite on HTTP server
- Run complete acceptance test suite on WS server
- Confirm CI jobs run
- Run DApp Tests
- Run Smart contract repo test suites
- Run perf tests and measure an deltas
- Deploy an alpha and confirm in previewnet
Alternatives
Make a consideration for v22.5.1 as it was recently identified as a pinned version of nodejs for the ethers library. Something to check