Release Signer Alongside Node

[BowTiedDevOps]

The aim of this PR is to create a signer release every time there is a core release happening, with the tag set as <core_release>.0.

Note: The Actions PR will have to be merged before this can be merged, as it references composite actions that are not existent in the current flow but in the one proposed by that PR.

Example workflows (test failures are unaffected by these changes):

• Node Release (built both 5.0.0.0.0 and signer-5.0.0.0.0.0 releases): https://github.com/BowTiedDevOps/stacks-core/actions/runs/12953974660
• Standalone Signer Release (built signer-5.0.0.0.0.1 release): https://github.com/BowTiedDevOps/stacks-core/actions/runs/12957741282
• develop branch CI run: https://github.com/BowTiedDevOps/stacks-core/actions/runs/12960606782

Useful Links:

• Releases Page: https://github.com/BowTiedDevOps/stacks-core/releases
• Stacks Core Docker Images: https://hub.docker.com/r/bowtieddevops/stacks-core/tags
• Stacks Signer Docker Images: https://hub.docker.com/r/bowtieddevops/stacks-signer/tags

[wileyj]

Note that the required checks here will fail until the required actions PR is merged.

@BowTiedDevOps let's also use this PR to fix the alpine images which are currently configured to use glibc (they should be using the musl binaries for the release) https://github.com/BowTiedDevOps/stacks-core/blob/develop/.github/actions/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.alpine-binary#L13-L16

[wileyj]

will double-check the binaries/images in the fork, otherwise it looks good to me (and should resolve the issue from the previous PR)

[BowTiedDevOps]

I've updated the comments to further explain the outputs of the check-release job and the conditionals used within the file. I've also changed the conditionals to look like this:

+ needs.check-release.outputs.is_node_release == 'true' ||
  needs.check-release.outputs.is_signer_release == 'true'

Even though this is not necessary for the tests to run properly (i.e. is_signer_release will always be true if is_node_release is true), it adds more clarity to what the conditions do.

[CharlieC3]

LGTM! Thanks for the added commentary!

[wileyj]

double checked the binaries/images after discovering we've had broken alpine docker images for a while. latest changes resolve problem

[obycode]

I think this looks good.

[fabergat]

LGTM.

[obycode]

Looks like there is an issue:

Download action repository 'stacks-network/actions@main' (SHA:4934e89e192d94d285a6fe786011bdd3d9879e32)
Error: Can't find 'action.yml', 'action.yaml' or 'Dockerfile' for action 'stacks-network/actions/stacks-core/release/check-release@main'.

EDIT: This is because of the change needed in the actions repo.