feat: Implementing the Release Notes Generator to the project.

.github/pull_request_template.md

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+<!-- What problem does it solve or what feature does it add? -->
+## Overview
+
+<!-- Summarize the key changes for release notes. -->
+## Release Notes
+- TBD: 1st item of release notes
+- TBD: 2nd item of release notes
+
+<!-- Add attached issue that this PR solves. -->
+## Related
+Closes #issue_number

.github/workflows/check_pr_release_notes.yml

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+#
+# Copyright 2021 ABSA Group Limited
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+name: Check PR Release Notes
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened, edited, labeled, unlabeled]
+    branches: [ master ]
+
+concurrency:
+  group: release-notes-check-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  check-release-notes:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@ece7cb06caefa5fff74198d8649806c4678c61a1
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.14'
+
+      - name: Check presence of release notes in PR description
+        uses: AbsaOSS/release-notes-presence-check@8e586b26a5e27f899ee8590a5d988fd4780a3dbf
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          github-repository: ${{ github.repository }}
+          pr-number: ${{ github.event.number }}
+          title: "## [Rr]elease [Nn]otes"
+          skip-labels: 'no RN'
+          skip-placeholders: 'TBD'

.github/workflows/gh_release_draft.yml

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+#
+# Copyright 2021 ABSA Group Limited
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+name: GitHub Draft Release
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      tag-name:
+        description: 'Name of git tag to be created, and then draft release created. Syntax: "v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+".'
+        required: true
+      from-tag-name:
+        description: >-
+          Name of the git tag from which to detect changes from.
+          Default value: latest tag. Syntax: "v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+".
+        required: false
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  issues: read
+  pull-requests: read
+
+jobs:
+  release-draft:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@ece7cb06caefa5fff74198d8649806c4678c61a1
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.14'
+
+      - name: Check format of received target tag
+        id: check-version-tag
+        uses: AbsaOSS/version-tag-check@4145e48bf3f77a5afff2ec9afdd8afb6b53bce34
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          github-repository: ${{ github.repository }}
+          version-tag: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag-name }}
+
+      - name: Check format of received from tag
+        if: ${{ github.event.inputs.from-tag-name }}
+        id: check-version-from-tag
+        uses: AbsaOSS/version-tag-check@4145e48bf3f77a5afff2ec9afdd8afb6b53bce34
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          github-repository: ${{ github.repository }}
+          version-tag: ${{ github.event.inputs.from-tag-name }}
+          should-exist: true
+
+      - name: Create and push tag
+        uses: actions/github-script@3a2844b7e9c422d3c10d287c895573f7108da1b3
+        env:
+          TAG_NAME: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag-name }}
+        with:
+          script: |
+            const tag = process.env.TAG_NAME;
+            const ref = `refs/tags/${tag}`;
+            const sha = context.sha;
+
+            await github.rest.git.createRef({
+              owner: context.repo.owner,
+              repo: context.repo.repo,
+              ref: ref,
+              sha: sha
+            });
+
+            console.log(`Tag created: ${tag}`);
+          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
+      - name: Generate Release Notes
+        id: generate_release_notes
+        uses: AbsaOSS/generate-release-notes@26eca65fc504c088a7afd8b08545a738ad8b446b
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          release-notes-title: "## [Rr]elease [Nn]otes"
+          tag-name: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag-name }}
+          from-tag-name: ${{ github.event.inputs.from-tag-name }}
+          chapters: |
+            - { title: Breaking Changes 💥, label: breaking change, order: 10 }
+            - { title: Epics 🚀, label: epic, order: 20 }
+            - { title: New Features 🎉, label: enhancement, order: 30 }
+            - { title: Bugfixes 🛠, label: bug, order: 40 }
+            - { title: Documentation 📚, label: documentation, order: 50 }
+            - { title: Infrastructure ⚙️, label: infrastructure, order: 60 }
+            - { title: Refactoring ♻️, label: refactoring, order: 70 }
+            - { title: Spikes 💡, label: spike, order: 80 }
+            - { title: Standardization 🧩, label: Standardization, order: 90 }
+            - { title: Entries to skip 🚫, labels: [duplicate, no RN], hidden: true, order: 99 }
+          warnings: true
+          print-empty-chapters: false
+          row-format-issue: '{type}: {number} _{title}_ by {developers} in {pull-requests}'
+          row-format-pr: '{number} _{title}_ by {developers}'
+
+      - name: Create draft release
+        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@718ea10b132b3b2eba29c1007bb80653f286566b
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          name: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag-name }}
+          body: ${{ steps.generate_release_notes.outputs.release-notes }}
+          tag_name: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag-name }}
+          draft: true
+          prerelease: false