diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
index 6f119ef8e8a8..84bca943fec8 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -5,11 +5,8 @@ load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")
 # Add NodeJS rules (explicitly used for sass bundle rules)
 http_archive(
   name = "build_bazel_rules_nodejs",
-  # TODO(devversion): temporarily depend on a specific commit because we want to make sure that
-  # our CI is not flaky until there is a new version of the NodeJS rules. See commit:
-  # https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_nodejs/commit/c40ceb960af4213164d4299d8fbc8220ebdd727f
-  url = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_nodejs/archive/c40ceb960af4213164d4299d8fbc8220ebdd727f.zip",
-  strip_prefix = "rules_nodejs-c40ceb960af4213164d4299d8fbc8220ebdd727f",
+  url = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_nodejs/archive/0.16.4.zip",
+  strip_prefix = "rules_nodejs-0.16.4",
 )
 
 # Add TypeScript rules
@@ -83,7 +80,7 @@ check_bazel_version("0.18.0")
 
 node_repositories(
   # For deterministic builds, specify explicit NodeJS and Yarn versions.
-  node_version = "10.10.0",
+  node_version = "10.13.0",
   # Use latest yarn version to support integrity field (added in yarn 1.10)
   yarn_version = "1.12.1",
 )
diff --git a/tools/release/publish-release.ts b/tools/release/publish-release.ts
index 15fe05c9bb29..32386ea99b84 100644
--- a/tools/release/publish-release.ts
+++ b/tools/release/publish-release.ts
@@ -242,7 +242,6 @@ class PublishReleaseTask extends BaseReleaseTask {
 
   /** Creates a specified tag and pushes it to the remote repository */
   private createAndPushReleaseTag(tagName: string, releaseNotes: string) {
-    // TODO(devversion): find a way to extract the changelog part just for this version.
     if (!this.git.createTag('HEAD', tagName, releaseNotes)) {
       console.error(red(`  ✘   Could not create the "${tagName}" tag.`));
       console.error(red(`      Please make sure there is no existing tag with the same name.`));