diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 5ae70cb..121e4b8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ jobs:
 
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        node-version: [12.x, 14.x, 16.x]
+        node-version: [16.x, 18.x, 20.x]
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
       - name: Use Node.js
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
         with:
           node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
 
diff --git a/.npmrc b/.npmrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..43c97e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.npmrc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+package-lock=false
diff --git a/benchmarks/generateNet.js b/benchmarks/generateNet.js
index 852ac94..43d81ac 100644
--- a/benchmarks/generateNet.js
+++ b/benchmarks/generateNet.js
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 const mqtt = require('../')
 const max = 1000000
 let i = 0
diff --git a/benchmarks/parse.js b/benchmarks/parse.js
index e6df8ee..d43d1f0 100644
--- a/benchmarks/parse.js
+++ b/benchmarks/parse.js
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 const mqtt = require('../')
 const parser = mqtt.parser()
 const max = 10000000
diff --git a/benchmarks/writeToStream.js b/benchmarks/writeToStream.js
index 919b53d..f6934ea 100644
--- a/benchmarks/writeToStream.js
+++ b/benchmarks/writeToStream.js
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 const mqtt = require('../')
 const max = 1000000
 let i = 0
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 7d75bba..ebcc74f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -35,14 +35,14 @@
   "homepage": "https://github.com/mqttjs/mqtt-packet",
   "devDependencies": {
     "pre-commit": "^1.2.2",
-    "readable-stream": "^3.6.0",
-    "standard": "^16.0.0",
+    "readable-stream": "^4.4.2",
+    "standard": "^17.1.0",
     "tap-spec": "^5.0.0",
-    "tape": "^5.0.1"
+    "tape": "^5.7.2"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "bl": "^5.0.0",
-    "debug": "^4.1.1",
+    "bl": "^6.0.8",
+    "debug": "^4.3.4",
     "process-nextick-args": "^2.0.1"
   }
 }
diff --git a/test.js b/test.js
index dfe741a..78c9455 100644
--- a/test.js
+++ b/test.js
@@ -1786,8 +1786,8 @@ test('split publish longer', t => {
     retain: false,
     qos: 0,
     dup: false,
-    length: length,
-    topic: topic,
+    length,
+    topic,
     payload: Buffer.from('a'.repeat(payloadLength))
   }
 
@@ -1818,8 +1818,8 @@ test('split length parse', t => {
     retain: false,
     qos: 0,
     dup: false,
-    length: length,
-    topic: topic,
+    length,
+    topic,
     payload: Buffer.from('a'.repeat(payloadLength))
   }