feat(release): allow for semver requirements to be disabled in version and changelog

[Coly010]

Current Behavior

Aspects of Nx Release currently restrict versioning to semver only. This causes issues with release implementations that do not follow semver, such as CalVer.

Expected Behavior

Add a new config option to release called releaseTagPatternRequireSemver to dictate handling of tags in the workspace.
It is true by default.
Setting to false allows for non-semver tags to be resolved.

e.g.

"release": {
  "releaseTagPatternRequireSemver": true,
  "groups": {
    "group-1": {
      "releaseTagPatternRequireSemver": false
    }
  }
}

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