Generate Release Notes workflow

.github/pull_request_template.md

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+<!-- What problem does it solve or what feature does it add? -->
+## Overview
+
+<!-- Summarize the key changes for release notes. -->
+## Release Notes
+- TBD: 1st item of release notes
+- TBD: 2nd item of release notes
+
+<!-- Add attached issue that this PR solves. -->
+## Related
+Closes #issue_number

.github/workflows/check_pr_release_notes.yml

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+name: Check PR Release Notes
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened, edited, labeled, unlabeled]
+    branches: [ master ]
+
+concurrency:
+  group: release-notes-check-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  check-release-notes:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.14'
+
+      - name: Check presence of release notes in PR body
+        uses: AbsaOSS/release-notes-presence-check@8e586b26a5e27f899ee8590a5d988fd4780a3dbf
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          github-repository: ${{ github.repository }}
+          pr-number: ${{ github.event.number }}
+          title: "## [Rr]elease [Nn]otes"
+          skip-labels: 'no RN'
+          skip-placeholders: 'TBD'

.github/workflows/release_draft.yml

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+name: Draft Release
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      tag-name:
+        description: 'Name of git tag to be created, and then draft release created. Syntax: "v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+".'
+        required: true
+      from-tag-name:
+        description: >-
+          Name of the git tag from which to detect changes from.
+          Default value: latest tag. Syntax: "v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+".
+        required: false
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  issues: read
+  pull-requests: read
+
+jobs:
+  release-draft:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.14'
+
+      - name: Check format of received target tag
+        id: check-version-tag
+        uses: AbsaOSS/version-tag-check@4145e48bf3f77a5afff2ec9afdd8afb6b53bce34
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          github-repository: ${{ github.repository }}
+          version-tag: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag-name }}
+
+      - name: Check format of received from tag
+        if: ${{ github.event.inputs.from-tag-name }}
+        id: check-version-from-tag
+        uses: AbsaOSS/version-tag-check@4145e48bf3f77a5afff2ec9afdd8afb6b53bce34
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          github-repository: ${{ github.repository }}
+          version-tag: ${{ github.event.inputs.from-tag-name }}
+          should-exist: true
+
+      - name: Generate Release Notes
+        id: generate_release_notes
+        uses: AbsaOSS/generate-release-notes@da535383f54a6532adb84e88d3b6e5c7236132df
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          release-notes-title: "## [Rr]elease [Nn]otes"
+          tag-name: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag-name }}
+          from-tag-name: ${{ github.event.inputs.from-tag-name }}
+          chapters: |
+            - { title: New Features 🎉, label: enhancement, order: 20 }
+            - { title: Bugfixes 🛠, label: bug, order: 30 }
+            - { title: Dependencies ⚙️, label: dependencies, order: 50 }
+            - { title: No entry 🚫, label: duplicate, hidden: true, order: 99 }
+          warnings: true
+          print-empty-chapters: false
+          row-format-issue: '{type}: {number} _{title}_ by {developers} in {pull-requests}'
+          row-format-pr: '{number} _{title}_ by {developers}'
+
+      - name: Create and push tag (standalone)
+        uses: actions/github-script@3a2844b7e9c422d3c10d287c895573f7108da1b3
+        env:
+          TAG_NAME: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag-name }}
+        with:
+          script: |
+            const tag = process.env.TAG_NAME;
+            const ref = `refs/tags/${tag}`;
+            const sha = context.sha;
+
+            await github.rest.git.createRef({
+              owner: context.repo.owner,
+              repo: context.repo.repo,
+              ref: ref,
+              sha: sha
+            });
+
+            console.log(`Tag created: ${tag}`);
+          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
+      - name: Create draft release
+        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@b4309332981a82ec1c5618f44dd2e27cc8bfbfda
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          name: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag-name }}
+          body: ${{ steps.generate_release_notes.outputs.release-notes }}
+          tag_name: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag-name }}
+          draft: true
+          prerelease: false