diff --git a/bumpversion.sh b/bumpversion.sh
index ed44d7b68b0e09f6d2cf557f7a15e52553246341..329e866dac988c049574a0a9f26ba89979c523a8 100755
--- a/bumpversion.sh
+++ b/bumpversion.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ if [[ "$curVer" ]]; then
   # replace in template and variants
   for tmpl in templates/*.yml
   do
-    sed -e "s/command: *\[\"--service\", \"\(.*\)\", \"$curVer\"\]/command: [\"--service\", \"\1\", \"$nextVer\"]/" "$tmpl" > "$tmpl.next"
+    sed -e "s/command: *\[ *\"--service\", *\"\(.*\)\", *\"$curVer\" *\]/command: [\"--service\", \"\1\", \"$nextVer\"]/" "$tmpl" > "$tmpl.next"
     mv -f "$tmpl.next" "$tmpl"
   done
 else
diff --git a/templates/gitlab-ci-node.yml b/templates/gitlab-ci-node.yml
index 15e55e4500091471b1df21a2707d3a80453ffe3e..ad1da607545df8598e804d26f7ade5704b13b81d 100644
--- a/templates/gitlab-ci-node.yml
+++ b/templates/gitlab-ci-node.yml
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ stages:
   image: $NODE_IMAGE
   services:
     - name: "$TBC_TRACKING_IMAGE"
-      command: ["--service", "node", "3.10.1" ]
+      command: ["--service", "node", "3.12.2"]
   variables:
     # Yarn cache (better than --cache-folder option, deprecated)
     YARN_CACHE_FOLDER: "$CI_PROJECT_DIR/$NODE_PROJECT_DIR/.yarn"