Backport PR #7749: Use Node.js 24 / npm 11 to publish releases (#7750)

Co-authored-by: Jeremy Tuloup <jeremy.tuloup@gmail.com>

Author: meeseeksmachine

.github/workflows/publish-release.yml

@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ jobs:
       id-token: write
     steps:
       - uses: jupyterlab/maintainer-tools/.github/actions/base-setup@v1
+        with:
+          node_version: '24'
 
       - uses: actions/create-github-app-token@v2
         id: app-token