[LeonStadler]

Summary

• Allow the release workflow to prepare a first release when there is no previous published release or Git tag.
• Generate direct-commit notes from the repository root and document the no-tag release path.

Validation

• swift build
• swift test --quiet
• macOS project generation check
• Shell/YAML syntax checks and a no-tag release-notes fixture covering all 108 direct commits from the repository root