diff --git a/.github/workflows/gitleaks.yaml b/.github/workflows/gitleaks.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index bb431f7..0000000
--- a/.github/workflows/gitleaks.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-name: GitLeaks
-on: [pull_request]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: gitleaks-${{ github.ref }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-jobs:
-  gitleaks-scan:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container:
-      image: gcr.io/spectro-dev-public/bulwark/gitleaks:latest
-      env:
-        REPO: ${{ github.event.repository.name }}
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        GITLEAKS_CONFIG: config.toml
-    steps:
-
-      - name: run-bulwark-gitleaks-scan
-        shell: sh
-        env:
-          BRANCH: ${{ github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}
-        run: /workspace/bulwark -name CodeSASTGitLeaks -target $REPO -tags "branch:$BRANCH,options:--log-opts origin..HEAD"
-
-      - name: check-result
-        shell: sh
-        run: |
-          resultPath=./$REPO/gitleaks.json
-          cat $resultPath | grep -v \"Match\"\: | grep -v \"Secret\"\:
-          total_failed_tests=`cat $resultPath | grep \"Fingerprint\"\: | wc -l`
-          if [ "$total_failed_tests" -gt 0 ]; then
-            echo "GitLeaks validation check failed with above findings..."
-            exit 1
-          else 
-            echo "GitLeaks validation check passed"
-          fi
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yaml b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
index b84600b..d0d088d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ env:
   PALETTE_REGISTRY_CLI_VERSION: 4.6.1
   K9S_VERSION: 0.32.5
   SPECTRO_CLI_VERSION: 4.6.0
+  NODE_VERSION: "22"
 
 jobs:
   docker:
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Setup nodeJs
         uses: actions/setup-node@v6
         with:
-          node-version: "20"
+          node-version: ${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
 
       - name: Check out code into the Go module directory
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
@@ -103,7 +104,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Setup Nodejs
         uses: actions/setup-node@v6
         with:
-          node-version: 18
+          node-version: ${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: npm ci
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yaml b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
index 77963bb..98783d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ env:
   TERRAFORM_VERSION: 1.9.0
   PALETTE_REGISTRY_CLI_VERSION: 4.5.0
   K9S_VERSION: 0.32.5
-  SPECTRO_CLI_VERSION: 4.6.0
+  SPECTRO_CLI_VERSION: 4.6.0  
+  NODE_VERSION: "22"
 
 concurrency:
   group: docker-${{ github.ref }}
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Setup Nodejs
         uses: actions/setup-node@v6
         with:
-          node-version: "20"
+          node-version: ${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: npm ci
@@ -83,3 +84,23 @@ jobs:
             PALETTE_REGISTRY_CLI_VERSION=${{env.PALETTE_REGISTRY_CLI_VERSION}}
             K9S_VERSION=${{env.K9S_VERSION}}
             SPECTRO_CLI_VERSION=${{env.SPECTRO_CLI_VERSION}}
+
+  semantic:
+    name: "Semantic Release Dry Run"
+    needs: [run-ci]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: ${{ !github.event.pull_request.draft }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Setup nodeJs
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v6
+        with:
+          node-version: ${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
+
+      - name: Check out code into the Go module directory
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: npm ci
+
+      - name: Semantic Release Dry Run
+        run: npx semantic-release --dry-run