defect(release): update node version for automated releases

Defect Report

1. User story

As a Maintainer,
I need Node.js version 8.16 or higher
in order to automate package publication with semantic-release.

2. Acceptance criteria

When working properly, I expect that:

• 1. The semantic-release stage of CI/CD will bundle, tag, publish, and merge changes.

🐞 3. Steps to reproduce

1. Run a Pipeline's "semantic-release" stage.

2. The following error message will appear:

   [semantic-release]: node version >=8.16 is required. Found v8.14.0

3. View an actual semantic-release job failure.