diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index 5b18875c3..c9b47c457 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -414,12 +414,17 @@ jobs:
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
-      - run: corepack enable
+      - name: node post install
+        run: |
+          corepack enable
+          npm config set fund false
 
       - name: Install Node
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
-          node-version: 18
+          cache: yarn
+          cache-dependency-path: "**/yarn.lock"
+          node-version-file: .tool-versions
 
       - name: Download the artifact
         uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
@@ -458,7 +463,9 @@ jobs:
       # Setup .npmrc file to publish to npm
       - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
-          node-version: 18
+          cache: yarn
+          cache-dependency-path: "**/yarn.lock"
+          node-version-file: .tool-versions
           registry-url: "https://registry.npmjs.org"
 
       - run: npm publish --access public @ansible-ansible-language-server-*.tgz
diff --git a/.github/workflows/dedupe.yml b/.github/workflows/dedupe.yml
index 0679bec15..080e732c3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/dedupe.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/dedupe.yml
@@ -31,10 +31,14 @@ jobs:
       - name: Use Node.js
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
-          node-version: '18'
+          cache: yarn
+          cache-dependency-path: "**/yarn.lock"
+          node-version-file: .tool-versions
 
-      - name: Enable Corepack
-        run: corepack enable
+      - name: node post install
+        run: |
+          corepack enable
+          npm config set fund false
 
       - name: Configure Git
         run: |
diff --git a/.tool-versions b/.tool-versions
index 2ca7d52b2..1c3e8b76e 100644
--- a/.tool-versions
+++ b/.tool-versions
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 direnv 2.34.0
-nodejs 18.19.1
+nodejs 20.18.0
 # asdf install task latest
 task 3.37.2
 yarn 1.22.19
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ea79d33db..0da771365 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -989,10 +989,10 @@
   "engineStrict": true,
   "engines": {
     "//": "node version affects only development, it does not affect VS Code runtime",
-    "node": ">=16.0",
+    "node": ">=20.0",
     "npm": "\n\nERROR: Please use yarn instead of npm for this repository.!!!\n\n",
     "vscode": "^1.85.0",
-    "yarn": ">=3.2.1"
+    "yarn": ">=4.5.1"
   },
   "extensionDependencies": [
     "ms-python.python",
diff --git a/packages/ansible-language-server/Taskfile.yml b/packages/ansible-language-server/Taskfile.yml
index 2f11ccbe8..5fe90bea4 100644
--- a/packages/ansible-language-server/Taskfile.yml
+++ b/packages/ansible-language-server/Taskfile.yml
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ tasks:
     desc: Run all tests using node (same version as vscode), will skip @ee tests if both SKIP_PODMAN=1 and SKIP_DOCKER=1.
     dir: "{{ .TASKFILE_DIR }}"
     cmds:
-      # - bash -c 'asdf local nodejs latest:18 latest:$(asdf nodejs resolve lts)'
       - task: .test
   test-node-lts:
     dir: "{{ .TASKFILE_DIR }}"
diff --git a/packages/ansible-language-server/package.json b/packages/ansible-language-server/package.json
index 55725e765..99c1db520 100644
--- a/packages/ansible-language-server/package.json
+++ b/packages/ansible-language-server/package.json
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
   },
   "icon": "icon.png",
   "engines": {
-    "node": ">=14.0",
+    "node": ">=20.0",
     "npm": ">=7.11.2"
   },
   "bin": "bin/ansible-language-server",