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myasnikovdaniil 5c564f9154 fix(release): keep release bodies within GitHub's size limit (#5142)
## What this PR does

Finalize sets release body after the stable tag, `api/apps/v1alpha1` tag
and `release-X.Y` fast-forward already exist. Body that GitHub refuses
fails the "Publish draft release" step at that point and leaves release
a draft, and rc-to-stable image retag with `cozy-installer` chart
publish never run. GitHub's web UI cut the v1.7.0-rc.2 changelog at
about 125000 characters, v1.7.0 changelog is 259,026.

Release can now carry short hand-written `docs/releasenotes/vX.Y.Z.md`
that becomes its body, changelog stays the full record. Finalize and
`update-releasenotes.yaml` take release notes if they exist and are not
blank, otherwise changelog.

Both hold the body to 100000 bytes. Bytes are never fewer than
characters and the limit sits 25 percent under the cut seen in web UI.
Exact GitHub limit and its answer to an oversized body don't matter.

Over the limit finalize publishes one-line link to the changelog on the
tag, with a warning in the run log. v1.6.0 changelog is 97,186 bytes, so
a next release near that size without release notes gets the link. Sync
never writes the link, it warns and leaves published body alone, because
`tags.yaml` backstop brings changelog to `main` without release notes
and sync would replace them.

`update-releasenotes.yaml` also runs on pushes touching
`docs/releasenotes/v*.md`. `docs/release.md` describes the rule,
including that release notes have to reach `main` too.

Release without release notes and with changelog under 100000 bytes is
published as before, byte for byte.

## Tests

`hack/release-changelog-behaviour.bats` runs real `script:` of both
workflow steps under node on fixture trees. Finalize cases are release
notes over changelog, blank release notes, changelog only, neither file,
100000 bytes accepted and 100001 replaced by link, and 40000 three-byte
characters (120000 bytes) counted as over. It also runs finalize over
every shipped changelog, so each one at or under the limit publishes
byte for byte. Sync makes the same choice, never updates release whose
body would be over the limit, and leaves up-to-date and missing ones
alone.

`hack/release-changelog-contract.bats` pins new trigger path and the
100000 constant.

### Downstream repositories

- [x] No downstream repository is affected by this change
- [ ] [cozystack/website](https://github.com/cozystack/website) -
follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack)
- follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/ansible-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/ansible-cozystack)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/ccp](https://github.com/cozystack/ccp) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/talm](https://github.com/cozystack/talm) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozyhr](https://github.com/cozystack/cozyhr) -
follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozy-proxy](https://github.com/cozystack/cozy-proxy) -
follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server](https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server)
- follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/external-apps-example](https://github.com/cozystack/external-apps-example)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/examples](https://github.com/cozystack/examples) -
follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/community](https://github.com/cozystack/community) -
follow-up:

### Release note

```release-note
fix(release): a release can carry short docs/releasenotes/vX.Y.Z.md that is published as its GitHub release body, changelog stays the full record. Release body over 100000 bytes is published as a link to the full changelog on the tag, so publishing a release with very long changelog no longer fails after its tags exist, and the release notes sync leaves such a body alone.
```


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Release Management**
* Release publication and subsequent updates now prefer non-empty
versioned release notes, falling back to the changelog when needed.
* If neither source contains content, the existing draft body is
preserved. Bodies exceeding 100,000 bytes are replaced with a link to
the tagged changelog during publication; updates are skipped.
* Changes to either release notes or changelogs now trigger release-body
synchronization.
* **Documentation**
* Updated release instructions to describe the content selection, size
limit, and synchronization behavior.

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