consider GitHub release alongside tags

[CagtayFabry]

Thank you everyone who contributed to the recent 1.0.0 release! 🚀

In addition to the usual git tags for each release I think users could benefit from using the GitHub "releases" feature to stay up to date with TLJH and consider updating to new versions.
The release notes could either be copied from the changelog or left blank. Either way, users would have the ability to get notified about new releases via GitHub.

Is this something you would consider?

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[jtpio]

Another useful thing would be to enable the "Releases" section on the right side panel on the repository main page, which appears to be missing at the moment:

Even if there are only tags, it would be easier to find them.

For example this is what it looks like on some other repo: