diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index fdc61c9..e9b6f55 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ###
 # Run semantic-release only after all tests succeeded!
+# - uses permissive GITHUB_TOKEN if we need to restrict the token in the future set permissions mannually
+# - in a future step we'll deploy this project to npm
 ###
 
 name: Release
@@ -19,11 +21,11 @@ jobs:
     #   pull-requests: write
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
       - name: Setup Node.js
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v2
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
         with:
           node-version: 16.9.0
       - name: Install dependencies