chore: avoid latest on maintenance releases (#7702)

* chore: avoid latest on maintenance releases

* update semantic

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Co-authored-by: Livio Spring <livio.a@gmail.com>

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -33,6 +33,33 @@ jobs:
       semantic_version: ${{ inputs.semantic_version }}
       dry_run: false
 
+  # TODO: remove the publish job and publish releases directly with the @semantic-release/github plugin (remove draftRelease: true)
+  # as soon as it supports configuring the create release payload property make_latest to "legacy"
+  # https://docs.github.com/en/rest/releases/releases?apiVersion=2022-11-28#create-a-release--parameters
+  publish:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    needs: [ version ]
+    steps:
+      - id: get_release
+        uses: cardinalby/git-get-release-action@v1
+        with:
+          commitSha: ${{ github.sha }}
+          draft: true
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - name: Publish Release
+        uses: actions/github-script@v6
+        with:
+          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          script: |
+            github.rest.repos.updateRelease({
+              owner: context.repo.owner,
+              repo: context.repo.repo,
+              release_id: ${{ steps.get_release.outputs.id }},
+              draft: false,
+              make_latest: "legacy"
+            });
+
   docker:
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     needs: [ version ]