Chore:Deprecation of Node 20: migrate actions in workflows to Node 24 versions (#3460)

## Description:

Node 20 will reach EOL in April 2026. Node.js 20 actions are deprecated
and will be forced to run on Node.js 24 starting June 2, 2026:
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-09-19-deprecation-of-node-20-on-github-actions-runners/

Update our workflows in this PR.

- For _deployment-action_ and _deployment-status_: stop using these and
. They seem quite unmaintained which could pose risks and there is no
Node 24 version yet:
https://github.com/chrnorm/deployment-action/issues/93 and
https://github.com/chrnorm/deployment-status/issues/53. It will probably
be updated to Node 24, but why wait if we don't actually need to be
dependent on them per se.

- Instead of the above, use actions/github-script@v8 with default API.
Maybe a bit more maintainance work, if any, but better than to be
dependent on unmaintained outside actions. For reference see
https://docs.github.com/en/rest/deployments/deployments?apiVersion=2026-03-10#create-a-deployment

- For _auto-author-assign_, use v3.0.1
(4d585cc37690897bd9015942ed6e766aa7cdb97f). From v3.0.0 it uses Node 24:
https://github.com/toshimaru/auto-author-assign/releases

- For _stale_, use v10.2.0 (b5d41d4e1d5dceea10e7104786b73624c18a190f).
From v10.0.0 it uses Node 24: https://github.com/actions/stale/releases

- For other actions, use their appropriate version for Node 24.

- Tested all with FORCE_JAVASCRIPT_ACTIONS_TO_NODE24=true

## Please complete the following:

- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [x] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced

## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:

tryout33

.github/workflows/deploy.yml

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ jobs:
       DOMAIN: ${{ inputs.target_domain || 'openfront.dev' }}
       SUBDOMAIN: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref_name || inputs.target_subdomain || 'main' }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
       - name: 📝 Update job summary
         env:
           FQDN: ${{ env.SUBDOMAIN && format('{0}.{1}', env.SUBDOMAIN, env.DOMAIN) || env.DOMAIN || 'openfront.dev' }}
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ jobs:
 
           Deploying from $GITHUB_REF to $FQDN
           EOF
-      - uses: actions/create-github-app-token@v2
+      - uses: actions/create-github-app-token@v3
         id: generate-token
         if: ${{ github.repository == 'openfrontio/OpenFrontIO' }}
         with:
@@ -79,14 +79,34 @@ jobs:
           echo "GH_TOKEN=$GH_TOKEN" >> $GITHUB_ENV
           gh api octocat
       - name: 📝 Create deployment
-        uses: chrnorm/deployment-action@v2
+        if: ${{ github.repository == 'openfrontio/OpenFrontIO' && steps.generate-token.outputs.token != '' }}
+        uses: actions/github-script@v8
         id: deployment
+        env:
+          ENVIRONMENT: ${{ inputs.target_domain == 'openfront.io' && 'prod' || 'staging' }}
+          FQDN: ${{ env.FQDN }}
         with:
-          token: ${{ steps.generate-token.outputs.token }}
-          environment-url: https://${{ env.FQDN }}
-          environment: ${{ inputs.target_domain == 'openfront.io' && 'prod' || 'staging' }}
+          github-token: ${{ steps.generate-token.outputs.token }}
+          script: |
+            const response = await github.rest.repos.createDeployment({
+              owner: context.repo.owner,
+              repo: context.repo.repo,
+              ref: process.env.GITHUB_SHA,
+              environment: process.env.ENVIRONMENT,
+              description: 'Deployment to ' + process.env.FQDN,
+              auto_merge: false,
+              required_contexts: [],
+              transient_environment: process.env.ENVIRONMENT === 'staging' && context.ref !== 'refs/heads/main',
+              production_environment: process.env.ENVIRONMENT === 'prod'
+            });
+            const deployment = response.data;
+            if (!deployment || !deployment.id) {
+              core.setFailed('Failed to create deployment');
+              return;
+            }
+            core.setOutput('deployment_id', deployment.id);
       - name: 🔗 Log in to GHCR
-        uses: docker/login-action@v3
+        uses: docker/login-action@v4
         with:
           registry: ghcr.io
           username: ${{ vars.GHCR_USERNAME }}
@@ -143,14 +163,23 @@ jobs:
           done
           echo "Deployment started in ${SECONDS} seconds" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
           echo "::endgroup::"
-      - name: ✅ Update deployment status
-        if: success()
-        uses: chrnorm/deployment-status@v2
+      - name: 🔄 Update deployment status
+        if: ${{ always() && github.repository == 'openfrontio/OpenFrontIO' && steps.generate-token.outputs.token != '' && steps.deployment.outcome == 'success' && steps.deployment.outputs.deployment_id != '' }}
+        uses: actions/github-script@v8
+        env:
+          FQDN: ${{ env.FQDN }}
+          DEPLOYMENT_ID: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.deployment_id }}
+          STATUS: ${{ job.status }}
         with:
-          token: ${{ steps.generate-token.outputs.token }}
-          environment-url: https://${{ env.FQDN }}
-          state: success
-          deployment-id: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.deployment_id }}
+          github-token: ${{ steps.generate-token.outputs.token }}
+          script: |
+            await github.rest.repos.createDeploymentStatus({
+              owner: context.repo.owner,
+              repo: context.repo.repo,
+              deployment_id: process.env.DEPLOYMENT_ID,
+              state: process.env.STATUS === 'success' ? 'success' : 'failure',
+              environment_url: 'https://' + process.env.FQDN
+            });
       - name: ✅ Update job summary
         if: success()
         run: |
@@ -159,14 +188,6 @@ jobs:
 
           Deployed from $GITHUB_REF to $FQDN
           EOF
-      - name: ❌ Update deployment status
-        if: failure()
-        uses: chrnorm/deployment-status@v2
-        with:
-          token: ${{ steps.generate-token.outputs.token }}
-          environment-url: https://${{ env.FQDN }}
-          state: failure
-          deployment-id: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.deployment_id }}
       - name: ❌ Update job summary
         if: failure()
         run: |