chore: Improve the release pipeline

[zepfred]

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[triceo]

I'm not sure this file is valid, or I don't understand the ' syntax.
Also, we switched to a new way of publishing Maven Central artifacts, and so the release pipeline will have to be updated more.

Let's discuss.

[zepfred]

I'm not sure this file is valid, or I don't understand the ' syntax. Also, we switched to a new way of publishing Maven Central artifacts, and so the release pipeline will have to be updated more.

Let's discuss.

We create a branch named release_branch_..., which contains changes related to the release version. Next, we will create a pull request and merge all changes from the release branch into the stable branch. The final three steps are to move the release branch back to 999-dev, check if the version branch (v1.16.x) exists, and rename the release branch to the version branch instead of deleting it.