ci: add semantic-versioning release to GH action

Author: dhensby

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ on:
   push:
     branches:
       - master    # although master is push protected we still keep it
-      - development
   pull_request:   # runs on all PR
     branches-ignore:
       - release-* # on release, we run an extended workflow so no need for this
@@ -75,3 +74,37 @@ jobs:
       with:
         path: './coverage/lcov.info'
         min_coverage: 98
+
+  release:
+    name: Release
+    concurrency: release
+    if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.actor != 'dependabot[bot]' }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: [lint, unittest]
+    permissions:
+      contents: write # to be able to publish a GitHub release & commit changelog changes
+      issues: write # to be able to comment on released issues
+      pull-requests: write # to be able to comment on released pull requests
+      id-token: write # to enable use of OIDC for npm provenance
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Setup Node.js
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v6
+        with:
+          node-version: 24
+          cache: 'npm'
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: npm clean-install
+      - name: Verify the integrity of provenance attestations and registry signatures for installed dependencies
+        run: npm audit signatures
+      - name: Release
+        env:
+          NPM_CONFIG_PROVENANCE: true
+          # Prefer a dedicated PAT (e.g. to push the release commit/tag to the
+          # protected `master` branch); fall back to the built-in token otherwise.
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_GITHUB_TOKEN || secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: npx semantic-release
+

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## Changelog
+# Changelog
 
 ## 5.0.0