diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 04e6e58f..27402661 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@
     "@types/chai": "^4.2.12",
     "@types/fs-extra": "^9.0.6",
     "@types/mocha": "^2.2.48",
-    "@types/node": "^12.12.6",
+    "@types/node": "^18.x",
     "@types/sinon": "^10.0.6",
     "@types/sinon-chai": "^3.2.5",
     "@types/vscode": "^1.63.0",
diff --git a/src/extension.ts b/src/extension.ts
index f56b691e..09712fd5 100644
--- a/src/extension.ts
+++ b/src/extension.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 'use strict';
 
-import { workspace, ExtensionContext, extensions, window, commands, Uri } from 'vscode';
+import { workspace, ExtensionContext, extensions, window, commands, Uri, ConfigurationTarget, env } from 'vscode';
 import {
   CommonLanguageClient,
   LanguageClientOptions,
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ export function startClient(
 ): SchemaExtensionAPI {
   const telemetryErrorHandler = new TelemetryErrorHandler(runtime.telemetry, lsName, 4);
   const outputChannel = window.createOutputChannel(lsName);
+  const l10nPath = context.asAbsolutePath('../yaml-language-server/l10n');
   // Options to control the language client
   const clientOptions: LanguageClientOptions = {
     // Register the server for on disk and newly created YAML documents
@@ -129,6 +130,9 @@ export function startClient(
     revealOutputChannelOn: RevealOutputChannelOn.Never,
     errorHandler: telemetryErrorHandler,
     outputChannel: new TelemetryOutputChannel(outputChannel, runtime.telemetry),
+    initializationOptions: {
+      l10nPath,
+    },
   };
 
   // Create the language client and start it
@@ -157,7 +161,7 @@ export function startClient(
   findConflicts();
   client
     .onReady()
-    .then(() => {
+    .then(async () => {
       // Send a notification to the server with any YAML schema associations in all extensions
       client.sendNotification(SchemaAssociationNotification.type, getSchemaAssociations());
 
@@ -214,6 +218,8 @@ export function startClient(
       });
 
       initializeRecommendation(context);
+
+      await setDefaultFormatter(['dockercompose', 'github-actions-workflow']);
     })
     .catch((err) => {
       sendStartupTelemetryEvent(runtime.telemetry, false, err);
@@ -222,6 +228,23 @@ export function startClient(
   return schemaExtensionAPI;
 }
 
+/**
+ * set redhat.vscode-yaml as default formatter
+ * @param extensions [dockercompose, github-actions-workflow]
+ */
+async function setDefaultFormatter(extensions: string[]): Promise<void> {
+  const config = workspace.getConfiguration();
+  extensions.forEach(async (extension) => {
+    const extensionConf = config.get<Record<string, string>>(`[${extension}]`) || {};
+    if (extensionConf) {
+      if (extensionConf['editor.defaultFormatter'] === undefined) {
+        extensionConf['editor.defaultFormatter'] = 'redhat.vscode-yaml';
+        await config.update(`[${extension}]`, extensionConf, ConfigurationTarget.Global);
+      }
+    }
+  });
+}
+
 /**
  * Finds extensions that conflict with VSCode-YAML.
  * If one or more conflicts are found then show an uninstall notification
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index a5fd152e..7131a853 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -310,10 +310,12 @@
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/node/-/node-18.15.3.tgz#f0b991c32cfc6a4e7f3399d6cb4b8cf9a0315014"
   integrity sha512-p6ua9zBxz5otCmbpb5D3U4B5Nanw6Pk3PPyX05xnxbB/fRv71N7CPmORg7uAD5P70T0xmx1pzAx/FUfa5X+3cw==
 
-"@types/node@^12.12.6":
-  version "12.20.55"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/node/-/node-12.20.55.tgz#c329cbd434c42164f846b909bd6f85b5537f6240"
-  integrity sha512-J8xLz7q2OFulZ2cyGTLE1TbbZcjpno7FaN6zdJNrgAdrJ+DZzh/uFR6YrTb4C+nXakvud8Q4+rbhoIWlYQbUFQ==
+"@types/node@^18.x":
+  version "18.19.112"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/node/-/node-18.19.112.tgz#cd2aee9c075402e0e1942a44101428881dbeb110"
+  integrity sha512-i+Vukt9POdS/MBI7YrrkkI5fMfwFtOjphSmt4WXYLfwqsfr6z/HdCx7LqT9M7JktGob8WNgj8nFB4TbGNE4Cog==
+  dependencies:
+    undici-types "~5.26.4"
 
 "@types/responselike@^1.0.0":
   version "1.0.0"
@@ -4571,6 +4573,11 @@ underscore@^1.12.1:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/underscore/-/underscore-1.13.6.tgz#04786a1f589dc6c09f761fc5f45b89e935136441"
   integrity sha512-+A5Sja4HP1M08MaXya7p5LvjuM7K6q/2EaC0+iovj/wOcMsTzMvDFbasi/oSapiwOlt252IqsKqPjCl7huKS0A==
 
+undici-types@~5.26.4:
+  version "5.26.5"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/undici-types/-/undici-types-5.26.5.tgz#bcd539893d00b56e964fd2657a4866b221a65617"
+  integrity sha512-JlCMO+ehdEIKqlFxk6IfVoAUVmgz7cU7zD/h9XZ0qzeosSHmUJVOzSQvvYSYWXkFXC+IfLKSIffhv0sVZup6pA==
+
 universalify@^2.0.0:
   version "2.0.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/universalify/-/universalify-2.0.0.tgz#75a4984efedc4b08975c5aeb73f530d02df25717"