Add .github/release.yml for auto-generated release notes

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Adds .github/release.yml to configure GitHub's auto-generated release notes with:

• Label-based categorization: Breaking Changes, Bug Fixes, Documentation, New Features, Improvements
• Bot exclusions: rapids-bot[bot], dependabot[bot]
• Label exclusions: ignore-for-release, dependencies

This matches the standard configuration used across rapidsai repos (e.g., rmm).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Updated release automation configuration to improve changelog organization and filtering for future releases.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Adds a changelog configuration to .github/release.yml with exclude filters for labels and authors, and category mappings for organizing release notes into Breaking Changes, Bug Fixes, Documentation, New Features, and Improvements.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Changelog Configuration .github/release.yml	Added exclude filters for labels and authors, plus category mappings with emoji labels for organizing release notes (Breaking Changes, Bug Fixes, Documentation, New Features, Improvements).

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~3 minutes

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3

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Title check	✅ Passed	The pull request title accurately and concisely describes the main change: adding a .github/release.yml file for configuring auto-generated release notes.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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✨ Finishing Touches

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• Create PR with unit tests
• Post copyable unit tests in a comment

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

.github/release.yml (1)

9-24: Consider adding a catch-all category for unlabelled PRs.

GitHub's release.yml supports * as a catch-all for pull requests that didn't match any of the previous categories. Without it, any PR that doesn't carry one of the five defined labels (breaking, bug, doc, feature request, improvement) — and isn't excluded — simply disappears from the generated release notes entirely rather than appearing in an "Other Changes" bucket.

💡 Proposed addition of a catch-all category

     - title: "🛠️ Improvements"
       labels:
         - improvement
+    - title: "🔄 Other Changes"
+      labels:
+        - "*"

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents

Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.

In @.github/release.yml around lines 9 - 24, The categories list is missing a
catch-all so unlabelled PRs are omitted; add a final category entry to the
categories array (e.g., title "Other Changes") that uses the special catch-all
label '*' so any PR that didn't match the existing label sets (the current
category titles: "\U0001F6A8 Breaking Changes", "\U0001F41B Bug Fixes",
"\U0001F4D6 Documentation", "\U0001F680 New Features", "\U0001F6E0\uFE0F
Improvements") will be included in the release notes.

🤖 Prompt for all review comments with AI agents

Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.

Nitpick comments:
In @.github/release.yml:
- Around line 9-24: The categories list is missing a catch-all so unlabelled PRs
are omitted; add a final category entry to the categories array (e.g., title
"Other Changes") that uses the special catch-all label '*' so any PR that didn't
match the existing label sets (the current category titles: "\U0001F6A8 Breaking
Changes", "\U0001F41B Bug Fixes", "\U0001F4D6 Documentation", "\U0001F680 New
Features", "\U0001F6E0\uFE0F Improvements") will be included in the release
notes.

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📒 Files selected for processing (1)

• .github/release.yml