write release notes to current dir to avoid goreleaser --clean deleting them (#700)

Author: sami-alajrami

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -124,15 +124,15 @@ jobs:
           go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
 
       # Use release notes from the tag body when present (set by interactive `make release` or `make release tag=vX.Y.Z` with dist/release_notes.md). Otherwise GoReleaser uses its default changelog.
+      # Write to repo root so GoReleaser's --clean (which removes dist/) does not delete the file before it is read.
       - name: Get release notes from tag
         id: get-tag-notes
         run: |
           TAG="${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}"
           BODY=$(git tag -l --format='%(contents:body)' "$TAG")
           if [ -n "$BODY" ]; then
-            mkdir -p dist
-            printf '%s' "$BODY" > dist/release_notes.md
-            echo "args=--release-notes=dist/release_notes.md" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+            printf '%s' "$BODY" > release_notes.md
+            echo "args=--release-notes=release_notes.md" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
           fi
 
       - name: Run GoReleaser