feat: set up pre-release workflow

[jonkoops]

What kind of change does this PR introduce?

• Bug Fix
• Feature
• Refactoring
• Style
• Build
• Chore
• Documentation
• CI

Did you add tests for your changes?

• Yes, my code is well tested
• Not relevant

If relevant, did you update the documentation?

• Yes, I've updated the documentation
• Not relevant

Summary
Sets up the release workflow with the latest conventions from semantic release. This includes a beta branch for pre-releases and NPM provenance.

Does this PR introduce a breaking change?
Nope.

Other information
None.

[jonkoops]

Looks like the failures here are some kind of bug likely due to older workflows, I've created #95 to upgrade everything and that seems to fix it.

[rolandjitsu]

Looks like the failures here are some kind of bug likely due to older workflows, I've created #95 to upgrade everything and that seems to fix it.

Those are probably showing up because of some settings in the PR merge settings/rules. I'll have a look.

Actually, the test failure on node 14 seems legit.

[jonkoops]

Actually, the test failure on node 14 seems legit.

Looking at the logs I see it is using NPM 10, even though NPM 9 is installed explicitly. I am not quite sure why this is happening to be honest.

[rolandjitsu]

Actually, the test failure on node 14 seems legit.

Looking at the logs I see it is using NPM 10, even though NPM 9 is installed explicitly. I am not quite sure why this is happening to be honest.

It would be good to get this passing as well if possible.

[jonkoops]

Actually, the test failure on node 14 seems legit.

I'll check it out when I have some more time. Let's get #95 merged first just to make sure the actions or environment don't have anything to do with it.

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[jonkoops]

I went ahead and removed semantic-release from the installed dependencies, as installing it bumped transitive dependencies that are used during the testing process, causing them to no longer be compatible with Node.js 14.

@rolandjitsu this one should be good to go now, let me know what you think.

[rolandjitsu]

Let's pin this down to whatever version semantic-release is on today.

[jonkoops]

Pinned it to ^24 that should prevent breaking changes, but still get us bug-fixes when needed.

[jonkoops]

@rolandjitsu we should be good to go now, can I ask you for another review?

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[jonkoops]

Thanks! 🎉

[github-actions]

🎉 This PR is included in version 1.2.0 🎉

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• npm package (@release-1.2.x dist-tag)
• GitHub release

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