[pull] master from louislam:master

.github/workflows/validate.yml

@@ -35,13 +35,16 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v6.0.1
         with: { persist-credentials: false }
-      - name: Use Node.js 20
+      - name: Use Node.js 25
         uses: actions/setup-node@395ad3262231945c25e8478fd5baf05154b1d79f # v6.1.0
         with:
-          node-version: 20
+          node-version: 25
 
       - name: Validate language JSON files
         run: node ./extra/check-lang-json.js
 
       - name: Validate knex migrations filename
         run: node ./extra/check-knex-filenames.mjs
+
+      - name: Validate package.json
+        run: node ./extra/check-package-json.mjs

extra/check-package-json.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import packageJSON from "../package.json" with { type: "json" };
+
+let hasError = false;
+
+for (const dep in packageJSON.dependencies) {
+    const semver = packageJSON.dependencies[dep];
+    if (semver.startsWith("^")) {
+        console.error(`Dependency ${dep} has a caret (^) in its version. Please change it to (~)`);
+        hasError = true;
+    }
+}
+
+if (hasError) {
+    process.exit(1);
+} else {
+    console.log("All dependencies are valid.");
+}