chore: update auto merge on patch or minor to v8.40.0 (#1885) #740

Job	Run time
Compile source code and run tests (20.x, windows-latest, tsconfig.json)	54s
Compile source code and run tests (22.x, windows-latest, tsconfig.json)	1m 9s
Compile source code and run tests (20.x, ubuntu-latest, tsconfig.json)	27s
Upload coverage report to codecov	38s
	3m 8s

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