chore!: Upgrade to Node version 18 (#834)

* Ran script and solved compiler errors

* 🦉 Updates from OwlBot post-processor

See https://github.com/googleapis/repo-automation-bots/blob/main/packages/owl-bot/README.md

* run the linter

* 🦉 Updates from OwlBot post-processor

See https://github.com/googleapis/repo-automation-bots/blob/main/packages/owl-bot/README.md

* Upgrade node version

* 🦉 Updates from OwlBot post-processor

See https://github.com/googleapis/repo-automation-bots/blob/main/packages/owl-bot/README.md

* only test on Node 18

* Change arrify import

* Downgrade arrify

* Add void for various promises

* Add void to solve linting issues

* Add void

* Remove the script

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Co-authored-by: Owl Bot <gcf-owl-bot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: danieljbruce

core/common/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2024 Google LLC
+# Copyright 2025 Google LLC
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -12,6 +12,5 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 docker:
-  image: gcr.io/cloud-devrel-public-resources/owlbot-nodejs:latest
-  digest: sha256:609822e3c09b7a1bd90b99655904609f162cc15acb4704f1edf778284c36f429
-# created: 2024-10-01T19:34:30.797530443Z
+  image: 'gcr.io/cloud-devrel-public-resources/owlbot-nodejs:latest'
+  digest: 'sha256:0d39e59663287ae929c1d4ccf8ebf7cef9946826c9b86eda7e85d8d752dbb584'

core/common/.github/release-trigger.yml

@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 enabled: true
+multiScmName: nodejs-common

core/common/.github/sync-repo-settings.yaml

@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ branchProtectionRules:
       - "ci/kokoro: Samples test"
       - "ci/kokoro: System test"
       - lint
-      - test (14)
-      - test (16)
       - test (18)
+      - test (20)
+      - test (22)
       - cla/google
       - windows
       - OwlBot Post Processor