Release Please cannot parse any commits have merge commit with Typo not following Conventional Commits Format

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release-please failed: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'startsWith')

I've tried committing again with a proper conventional commit message.

Additionally, I tried to lower the release search depth and commit search depth in the config and while I see it in the output/echo it's still looking at 25+ commits before it finally throw that it can't parse ANY commits, however this started when I accidentally had a typo in my commit message

❯ release search depth: 1
❯ Fetching releases with cursor undefined
❯ Found release for path ., v1.0.7
❯ release for path: ., version: 1.0.7, sha: d71b326762dda80ef918f33c354096bd955bfd60
✔ Collecting commits since all latest releases
❯ commit search depth: 1
❯ Set(1) { 'd71b326762dda80ef918f33c354096bd955bfd60' }
❯ Fetching merge commits on branch main with cursor: undefined
...

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❯ commit could not be parsed: ef89574b0415ad615c5662d7683c8446007c84ed Merge pull request #99 from linchpin/issue/LINCHPIN-4178
⚠ No latest release pull request found.
❯ commit could not be parsed: ca21789c498d5394d194306306ca35786570497e Merge pull request #96 from linchpin/renovate/npm-frontend
❯ commit could not be parsed: 72a7d2357dd52ad1fdbdc4147ad1f5b6cae8b5c7 Merge pull request #97 from linchpin/renovate/major-wordpress-monorepo
❯ commit could not be parsed: 1bcd20be531c7249fb71588cf0b564276788d615 Merge pull request #95 from linchpin/renovate/npm-dev-dependencies
❯ commits: 15
✔ Considering: 15 commits
❯ component:
❯ pull request title pattern: undefined

Any help would be greatly appreciated