feat: Reinstated GitHub release workflow with semantic-release

- Added release.yml workflow for automated releases
- Configured semantic-release with emoji commit parser
- Added semantic-release to dev dependencies
- Updated pyproject.toml with semantic-release tool config
- Configured version variables for automatic version bumping

Author: jreakin

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+name: Release
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  packages: write
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    name: Create Release
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Install uv
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v4
+        with:
+          version: "latest"
+          enable-cache: true
+          cache-dependency-glob: "pyproject.toml"
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        run: uv python install 3.9
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: uv sync --group dev
+
+      - name: Run tests
+        run: uv run pytest tests/ -v --tb=short
+
+      - name: Configure git for semantic-release
+        run: |
+          git config user.name "github-actions"
+          git config user.email "github-actions@github.com"
+
+      - name: Run semantic-release
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        continue-on-error: true
+        run: uv run semantic-release publish --ci || true
+
+      - name: Build distribution packages
+        run: uv pip install build && uv run python -m build
+
+      - name: Upload artifacts to release
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          # Get the latest tag
+          LATEST_TAG=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0 2>/dev/null || echo "")
+
+          if [ -n "$LATEST_TAG" ]; then
+            # Upload wheel and sdist to the release
+            gh release upload "$LATEST_TAG" dist/*.whl dist/*.tar.gz --clobber || true
+          fi

.releaserc.json

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "branches": ["main"],
+  "repository_url": "https://github.com/Abstract-Data/RyanData-Address-Utils",
+  "changelog": {
+    "exclude": {
+      "labels": ["skip-changelog"]
+    }
+  },
+  "plugins": [
+    "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer",
+    "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator",
+    "@semantic-release/changelog",
+    "@semantic-release/github",
+    "@semantic-release/git"
+  ]
+}

pyproject.toml

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ dev = [
     "mypy>=1.13.0",
     "pytest>=8.0.0",
     "hypothesis>=6.0.0",
+    "python-semantic-release>=9.0.0",
 ]
 
 [build-system]
@@ -67,6 +68,26 @@ include = [
 target-version = "py39"
 line-length = 100
 
+[tool.semantic_release]
+version_variables = [
+    "pyproject.toml:version",
+    "src/ryandata_address_utils/__init__.py:__version__",
+]
+version_toml = "pyproject.toml:project.version"
+commit_parser = "semantic_release.commit_parser.emoji"
+minor_tag = ":sparkles:"
+patch_tag = ":bug:"
+changelog_sections = [
+    {type = "feat", section = "Features"},
+    {type = "fix", section = "Bug Fixes"},
+    {type = "docs", section = "Documentation"},
+    {type = "style", section = "Style"},
+    {type = "refactor", section = "Code Refactoring"},
+    {type = "perf", section = "Performance Improvements"},
+    {type = "test", section = "Tests"},
+    {type = "chore", section = "Chores"},
+]
+
 [tool.ruff.lint]
 select = ["E", "F", "I", "UP", "B", "SIM"]
 ignore = [