[Jc2k]

Motivation

• The release job in the CI pipeline was failing, likely due to outdated action versions and old base images used by those actions.
• Upgrade workflow actions to use maintained releases to ensure the release step runs on current runner images and newer dependencies.

Description

• Updated actions/checkout usages from v3 to v4 in the commitlint and release jobs.
• Bumped python-semantic-release from v8.7.0 to v10.6.1 for the release step.
• Replaced the removed/legacy python-semantic-release/upload-to-gh-release@v8.7.0 with python-semantic-release/publish-action@v10.6.1 and explicitly pass the generated tag output.
• Adjusted the workflow comment to reflect the new semantic-release major version.

Testing

• Ran git diff --check which returned clean without whitespace or diff errors. (succeeded)
• Attempted to parse the updated workflow with python - <<'PY' ... yaml.safe_load(...) ... PY but it failed due to ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'yaml' in this environment, so YAML validation was not completed. (failed)

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