Merge pull request #1678 from dhensby/pulls/bigint-inputs

test: make sure bigint intputs do not throw

Merge pull request #1668 from dhensby/pulls/release-deps

ci: move release process to node 18

fix: revert tedious upgrade

A holder commit for PR #1665 which did not trigger a release

Merge pull request #1664 from tediousjs/dependabot/npm_and_yarn/multi…

…-263f7b4ea4

chore(deps): bump @azure/identity and tedious

Merge pull request #1592 from bombjackit/patch-acquire

_acquire in case of reject return a promise, if this._acquire.promise is used in acquire, in case of reject an exception is raised that is not "captured" by the catch

Merge pull request #1551 from Fdawgs/ref/regex

perf: remove unused regex capture groups

Merge pull request #1547 from dhensby/pulls/tedious-upgrade

feat!: upgrade tedious, drop node <= 14 support

fix: force patch release

Merge branch '9.3.x'

Merge pull request #1543 from partik-mis/1542-fix

Fix for #1542.