121 tweaks to release ci

[boscorat]

✅ ACTION POINT 1: Version Validation Job
Commit: aa4dda4

• ✅ Blocking: Entire workflow fails if versions don't match
• ✅ Pre-releases: Full support for all uv version --bump formats (1.0.0-rc.1, 1.0.0+build.1, etc.)
• ✅ Placement: Runs as first job before any builds (saves 30–75 min of CI time)
• ✅ UX: Clear error messages with recovery instructions
  Key: Catches human errors early—forgotten version bumps, typos in tags—before expensive builds begin.

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✅ ACTION POINT 2: VirusTotal Results Table in Release Notes
Commit: 9af19a8

• ✅ Placement: After changelog (as requested)
• ✅ Content: Filename, Platform, Status emoji, Detection counts, VirusTotal links
• ✅ No Actions log display: Results only appear in release notes (clean logs)
• ✅ Error handling: If scan fails or table update fails, release still proceeds (table is optional, not blocking)
  Example table:
  Binary Platform
  openstan-1.2.3-Windows.msi Windows
  Key: Provides immediate security visibility for both maintainers and end users.

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✅ ACTION POINT 3a: Clarified docs.yml Permission Comment
Commit: e695b40

• Explains that GitHub Actions doesn't offer branch-specific permissions
• Clarifies this is a GitHub API limitation, not a design choice
• Prevents future maintainers from trying to reduce permissions incorrectly

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✅ ACTION POINT 3b: Clarified scan-with-virustotal Permission Comment
Commit: 3c8f60b

• Critical finding: Your instinct was CORRECT—contents: read doesn't work for draft releases
• Explains that draft releases are collaborator-only and require contents: write
• Prevents future maintainers from attempting to reduce this permission (it won't work)
• References the commit where this was discovered empirically (9106eb1)
  Key: The permission level is appropriate and necessary by design.

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✅ ACTION POINT 3c: Added Checksum Verification to resvg Download
Commit: b010965

• ✅ Verifies SHA256 of resvg-win64.zip before extraction
• ✅ Build fails if checksum mismatches
• ✅ Catches binary tampering or corruption at build time

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the GitHub Actions release/docs workflows to fail fast on version/tag mismatches, improve release-note UX with VirusTotal scan results, clarify permissions rationale, and harden the Windows resvg download with checksum verification.

Changes:

• Added a new “validate-version” job intended to ensure the pushed tag version matches pyproject.toml before running expensive builds.
• Enhanced the VirusTotal scanning job to collect per-binary results and update the GitHub Release notes with a Markdown results table.
• Added SHA256 verification for the Windows resvg-win64.zip download and clarified workflow permission comments.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
.github/workflows/release.yml	Adds tag↔pyproject validation, hardens Windows resvg download, and writes VirusTotal scan results into release notes.
.github/workflows/docs.yml	Clarifies why contents: write is required (no branch-scoped permissions).

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.github/workflows/release.yml:424

• YAML indentation is off here: the Install resvg step is indented deeper than the other entries in steps, so it will be parsed as part of the previous with: block and make the workflow invalid.

       - name: Install resvg (headless SVG→PNG, no display required)
         shell: pwsh
         run: |

.github/workflows/release.yml:972

• YAML indentation is invalid: permissions: is indented one extra space compared to the other job keys (runs-on, needs, if). This will break workflow parsing.

    needs: [build-linux, build-linux-arm64, build-windows, build-macos]
    if: success()  # Only run if all builds succeeded
     permissions:
       contents: write  # Required to download assets from draft releases
                        # (Draft releases are collaborator-only; cannot use contents:read)

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Pull request overview

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.github/workflows/release.yml:112

• Same quoting issue as above: the suggested git tag -m 'Release $PYPROJECT_VERSION' uses single quotes, so $PYPROJECT_VERSION will not expand if copy/pasted.

            echo "     git tag -d v$TAG_VERSION"
            echo "     git push origin :refs/tags/v$TAG_VERSION"
            echo "  2. Re-tag: git tag -a v$PYPROJECT_VERSION -m 'Release $PYPROJECT_VERSION'"
            echo "  3. Push: git push origin main v$PYPROJECT_VERSION"