Add automated release job to Maven Publish workflow

[Copilot]

After a successful Maven publish, the workflow had no mechanism to tag the release or publish release notes to GitHub.

Changes

• New release job in maven-publish.yml — runs after build succeeds via needs: build
  • Checks out full history (fetch-depth: 0) so --generate-notes can diff against the previous tag
  • Creates and pushes a v{revision} tag (derived from the -Drevision input)
  • Creates a published GitHub Release titled v{revision} with Copilot-generated notes spanning from the previous tag to the new one, marked as latest
  • Both tag and release creation are idempotent — re-runs skip existing tags/releases rather than failing
• permissions: contents: write scoped to the release job only, using the built-in GITHUB_TOKEN

release:
  runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  needs: build
  permissions:
    contents: write
  steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      with:
        fetch-depth: 0
    - name: Create Tag
      run: |
        if git rev-parse "v${{ inputs.revision }}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
          echo "Tag already exists, skipping."
        else
          git tag v${{ inputs.revision }}
          git push origin v${{ inputs.revision }}
        fi
    - name: Create Release
      run: |
        gh release create v${{ inputs.revision }} \
          --title "v${{ inputs.revision }}" \
          --generate-notes \
          --latest
      env:
        GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

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