👷 GitHub action to automate release based on semantic versioning (#499)

* ci: add release.yml to help automate release versions

* ci: add release.yml to help automate release versions - edited file further to cover edge cases

* ci: add release.yml to help automate release versions - I had a typo in a line which pointed at a different variable

* ci: add release.yml to help automate release versions - Fixing the release portion to prepend a v

* ci: add release.yml to help automate release versions. Lowercased V so it looks like v1.1.0 instead of V1.1.0

* ci: changing structure of release.yml to be easier to understand

* ci: #minor changes made

* ci: #minor changes made to make rolling and stable both release branches

* ci: #minor changes to hopefully turn off pre-release

* ci: #minor change - trying to make pre-release suffic set to nothing

* ci: #minor change - removed older release action for a better up to date one

* ci: #minor change

* ci: #minor change to fixed the pre-release issue

* ci: #minor change to fixed the pre-release issue again

* ci: #minor change to fixed the pre-release issue again2

* ci: changed action for tag. I believe it was causing errors

* ci: missing }

* ci: testing some things

* ci: fixing self inflicted error where I forgot to put an ID in

* ci: fixing to make the release branch rolling

* major: testing updating major

* BREAKING CHANGE: removed changelog action

* ci: reset commit and removed changelog

* ci: changed action for tag. I believe it was causing errors

* ci: missing }

* ci: testing some things

* ci: fixing self inflicted error where I forgot to put an ID in

* ci: fixing to make the release branch rolling

* ci: reset commit and removed changelog

* ci: added step to change Cargo.toml app version to the latest tag version without the v

* ci: using echo and double quotes in the appversion variable. Testing now

* ci: testing autocommit

* Apply automatic changes

* ci: testing autocommit further

* ci: testing autocommit: removing tagging since it creates another tag instead of using that tag

* Apply automatic changes

* ci: testing autocommit with branch protection and doing a PR to rolling

* Apply automatic changes

* ci: testing PR create and merge - removed the if that was causing it not to run

* ci: testing PR create and merge - removed the if that was causing it not to run

* Apply automatic changes

* ci: testing PR create and merge - fixed permission issues

* ci: testing PR create and merge - fixed permission issues

* Apply automatic changes

* ci: testing PR create and merge - potentially fixed PR issue

* Apply automatic changes

* ci: testing PR create and merge - potentially fixed PR issue2

* ci: testing PR create and merge - potentially fixed PR issue + fixing what branch it targets

* ci: testing PR create and merge - testing PAT

* ci: testing PR create and merge - testing to see if merge loop stops

* ci: adding in cargo.toml version in auto git commit

* Update Cargo.toml

Co-authored-by: alamin655 <129589283+alamin655@users.noreply.github.com>

* ci: adding in steps to regenerate the Cargo.lock file

* ci: adding in steps to regenerate the Cargo.lock file - fixing commit issue with cargo.toml

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Co-authored-by: scottc943 <scottc943@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: alamin655 <129589283+alamin655@users.noreply.github.com>

.github/workflows/release.yml

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+name: Bump release version
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [rolling]
+    types:
+      - closed
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  pull-requests: write
+  repository-projects: write
+
+concurrency: production
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    name: bump tag version and release  
+    if: github.event.pull_request.merged == true 
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ github.sha }}
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Bump version and push tag
+        id: version-bump
+        uses: hennejg/github-tag-action@v4.3.1
+        with:
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          release_branches: rolling
+      - name: create branch 
+        uses: peterjgrainger/action-create-branch@v2.2.0
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          branch: update-from-${{ github.sha }}
+      - name: update cargo.toml
+        run: |
+          appversion=$(echo "${{ steps.version-bump.outputs.new_tag }}" | grep -oE '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+')
+          sed -i -e "s/^version = .*/version = \"$appversion\"/" Cargo.toml
+      - run: rustup toolchain install stable --profile minimal
+      - run: rustup update stable && rustup default stable
+      - name: regenerate cargo.lock
+        run: cargo generate-lockfile
+      - name: auto commit
+        uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v5
+        with:
+          commit_message: "[skip ci] updating app version to ${{ steps.version-bump.outputs.new_tag }}"
+          branch: update-from-${{ github.sha }}
+      # create PR using GitHub CLI
+      - name: create PR with update info
+        id: create-pr
+        run: gh pr create --base rolling --head update-from-${{ github.sha }} --title 'Merge new update into rolling' --body 'Created by Github action'
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      # merge PR using GitHub CLI
+      - name: merge PR with update info
+        id: merge-pr
+        run: gh pr merge --admin --merge --subject 'Merge update info' --delete-branch
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.ADMIN_RIGHTS_TOKEN }}
+      - name: Create Release
+        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          generate_release_notes: true
+          name: ${{ steps.version-bump.outputs.new_tag }}
+          tag_name: ${{ steps.version-bump.outputs.new_tag }}
+          prerelease: false
+        env:
+          GITHUB_REPOSITORY: ${{ github.repository }}