Backported release job from master

Author: agronholm

.github/workflows/publish.yml

@@ -41,3 +41,19 @@ jobs:
       uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
     - name: Upload packages
       uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
+
+  release:
+    name: Create a GitHub release
+    needs: build
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - id: changelog
+      uses: agronholm/release-notes@v1
+      with:
+        path: docs/versionhistory.rst
+    - uses: ncipollo/release-action@v1
+      with:
+        body: ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.changelog }}