ci: add semantic-versioning release to GH action

Author: dhensby

Diff for: .github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -73,3 +73,36 @@ jobs:
       with:
         path: './coverage/lcov.info'
         min_coverage: 95
+
+  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
+      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@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Setup Node.js
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version: 22
+          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
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
+        run: npx semantic-release
+

Diff for: CHANGELOG.md

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