Update to node 24 - breaking pipelines with old GitHub runners

[kvnschlndt]

@zkochan The update from node 20 to 24 broke our pipelines :)
Maybe it makes sense to release this update with a new v5 version?

[R-Bower]

I am seeing the same. The best practice here is to use v5 since this is a breaking change.

We'd also need the v4 ref to point to a new v4.4.1 that reverts the breaking change.