[Anthony Kim (anthonykim1)]

• Update GitHub Actions CI from Node.js 24.18.0 to 24.22.1.
• Update native-prebuild jobs to use Node.js 24.22.1.
• Update compile/test, package, API-scan, and Publish jobs in the npm publishing pipeline to select Node.js 24.22.1.
• Apply the October 21 Node.js security release, which fixes high-severity issues affecting the 24.x release line.
• Keep the existing strict Node.js 24 source-development requirement and exact-version pinning policy.
• Validate all changed YAML with git diff --check and Ruby YAML parsing; manual ADO validation will run against this branch before the PR is marked ready.

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Inspirations from:

• The security update and affected release lines come from the official October 21, 2026 Node.js security release.
• Exact Node.js pinning across CI and native prebuilds follows the Node 24 migration in Use Node 24's bundled node-gyp for Visual Studio 2026 #997.
• Package-specific Node.js selection across compile, package, API-scan, and Publish jobs follows Use Node 24 in the publish pipeline #999 and https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-engineering/pull/4323.