*: release actions improvements

[KaloyanTanev]

• Do not take into considerations RCs of minors when doing a new patch (i.e.: if there is v1.10.0-rc3, but no stable v1.10.0 and trigger the patch release pipelines, do not create v1.10.1-rc0, but rather v1.9.4-rc1)
• Add option to optionally tag patch of an old minor (i.e.: a vulnerability is found and we'd like to patch both v1.8 and v1.9)

category: feature
ticket: none

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Pull request overview

Updates the patch-release GitHub Actions workflows to (1) avoid selecting in-progress minors that only have RC tags, and (2) optionally target a specific older minor for patching (e.g., for vulnerability backports).

Changes:

• Add workflow_dispatch input target_minor (vX.Y) to allow explicitly patching a chosen minor.
• Change “latest release branch” selection to choose the latest minor that has a stable vX.Y.0 tag (skipping RC-only minors).
• Ensure tags are fetched before evaluating branch/tag availability.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 4 out of 4 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

File	Description
.github/workflows/patch-release-step1.yml	Adds target_minor input and updates minor-branch selection logic to require a stable vX.Y.0 tag.
.github/workflows/patch-release-step2.yml	Adds target_minor input and applies the stable-tag-gated minor selection before tagging RCs.
.github/workflows/patch-release-step3.yml	Adds target_minor input and applies the stable-tag-gated minor selection before preparing stable PRs.
.github/workflows/patch-release-step4.yml	Adds target_minor input and applies the stable-tag-gated minor selection before tagging stable patch releases.

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Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 56.13%. Comparing base (97959c4) to head (6518479).
⚠️ Report is 3 commits behind head on main.

Additional details and impacted files

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