🚀 pre-release for packaging and publishing

[soumeh01]

Fixes

• Addressing: Establish pre-releases #804

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[soumeh01]

Note: Imports to consider that

• This change needs to be in effect after 1.4.0 release.
• If we decide to move from yarn to npm as stated in #570. This change needs to absorb it.

[jreineckearm]

Script implementation looks good, see two comments. Will try the package flow locally before approval.

We also need to update the ci.yml. It should also have a package step.

[jreineckearm]

Tested publish locally with a couple of versions. Added/omitted --pre-release as expected. Good to merge, thanks!