DevOps: Add release drafter and semantic release to repo

[nlebovits]

Describe the task

Integrate Release Drafter and Semantic Release into the repository to automate the release process. Release Drafter will create draft release notes based on merged pull requests, and Semantic Release will handle versioning, changelog generation, and publishing.

Acceptance Criteria

• Create and configure a GitHub Actions workflow for Release Drafter.
• Create and configure a GitHub Actions workflow for Semantic Release.
• Ensure both tools are functioning correctly and draft releases are automatically generated and published with appropriate versioning.

Additional context

Ensure that the necessary tokens are added to the repository secrets for authentication and publishing.

[nlebovits]

closed by #792