Add workflow to publish and create release notes from CHANGELOG

.github/workflows/publish.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Publish package to PyPI
+name: Publish package to PyPI and create release
 
 on:
   push:
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - name: Set up Python 3.11
+      - name: Set up Python 3.12
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.11
+          python-version: 3.12
       - name: Install flit
         run: |
           pip install flit
@@ -31,3 +31,18 @@ jobs:
           FLIT_INDEX_URL: https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/
           FLIT_USERNAME: __token__
           FLIT_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets. PYPI_API_TOKEN }}
+
+  release:
+    name: Create release
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: [publish]
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Extract release notes
+        id: extract-release-notes
+        uses: ffurrer2/extract-release-notes@v1
+      - name: Create release
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: gh release create --notes '${{ steps.extract-release-notes.outputs.release_notes }}' --title ${{ github.ref_name }} ${{ github.ref_name }}