🩹[Patch]: Workflows improvements

[MariusStorhaug]

This release primarily updates and improves the project's GitHub Actions workflows and configuration files. The changes focus on increasing security and maintainability by pinning action versions, updating release processes, and cleaning up unnecessary configuration files. There are also minor documentation and description corrections.

GitHub Actions and Workflow Improvements:

• Updated all GitHub Actions in workflow files (such as Action-Test.yml and Linter.yml) to use pinned commit SHAs instead of floating version tags, improving security and reproducibility. Also set persist-credentials: false for checkout steps to reduce risk.
• Replaced the deprecated .github/workflows/Auto-Release.yml with a new .github/workflows/Release.yml workflow that triggers on pull requests to main and uses the PSModule/Release-GHRepository action, ensuring a more robust and targeted release process.
• Updated the schedule for Dependabot updates from weekly to daily and introduced a cooldown period to better manage dependency update frequency.

Configuration and Linting:

• Removed the .github/linters/.jscpd.json configuration file and disabled JSCPD validation in the linter workflow, simplifying the linting setup.
• Updated linter workflow to use a pinned version of super-linter and disabled certain validations for more control and consistency.

Release and Documentation Updates:

• Removed the .github/release.yml configuration for automatic release note categorization, streamlining release management.
• Fixed a typo in the description field of action.yml and updated script paths and action versions for better clarity and maintainability.

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Pull request overview

This PR updates GitHub Actions workflows to pin actions to specific commit SHAs and adjusts Dependabot’s configuration to run daily with a 7‑day cooldown for GitHub Actions updates.

Changes:

• Pin actions/checkout and super-linter/super-linter in the linter workflow to specific commit SHAs with version comments.
• Pin actions/checkout and PSModule/Auto-Release in the auto-release workflow to specific commit SHAs with version comments.
• Pin actions/checkout and actions/upload-artifact in the action test workflow to specific commit SHAs with version comments.
• Remove .github/release.yml (GitHub’s auto-generated release notes configuration).
• Update .github/dependabot.yml to use a daily schedule and add a cooldown block with default-days: 7 for the github-actions ecosystem.

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File	Description
.github/workflows/Linter.yml	Pins checkout and super-linter actions to specific commit SHAs to improve reproducibility and align with Dependabot-managed actions.
.github/workflows/Auto-Release.yml	Pins checkout and Auto-Release actions to specific commit SHAs for more controlled updates.
.github/workflows/Action-Test.yml	Pins checkout and upload-artifact actions to specific commit SHAs, including a major-version bump for upload-artifact.
.github/release.yml	Removes the configuration for GitHub’s automatically generated release notes, reverting behavior to GitHub defaults.
.github/dependabot.yml	Switches Dependabot GitHub Actions updates to a daily interval and adds a 7‑day cooldown configuration.

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