feat: enhance release workflow with manual trigger and version bump o…

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Summary

• Adds workflow_dispatch trigger to the existing release workflow, enabling production releases directly from the GitHub Actions UI
• Integrates the create-release reusable workflow for tag creation with optional auto-generated semver bumps
• Restricts who can trigger releases via the RELEASE_USERS repository variable

How it works

The workflow now supports two trigger paths:

Manual dispatch (new): Actions tab → "Release" → "Run workflow"

1. Optionally provide a tag version or select a bump type (patch/minor/major) to auto-generate
2. create-release job validates the actor against RELEASE_USERS, resolves the tag, and creates a GitHub release
3. deploy job builds and deploys to production using the created tag

Release event (existing): Creating a release through the GitHub UI still triggers deployment as before — no change to the current flow.

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Note

Medium Risk
Changes the production release/deploy pipeline and S3 destination selection; misconfiguration of inputs/permissions could impact what gets deployed, though the tag-empty guard reduces the worst failure mode.

Overview
Adds a workflow_dispatch trigger to the Release workflow so releases can be started from the Actions UI with optional tag_version or semver bump_type.

Introduces a create-release reusable-workflow job gated to RELEASE_USERS, and wires the deploy job to depend on it (while still supporting the existing release.published trigger). Deployment now resolves the tag from either the created release output or the release event, fails fast if empty to avoid destructive S3 sync, and uses the resolved tag for the S3 path and VERSION_TAG.

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