✨ Add release workflow and goreleaser configuration files

Added a GitHub Actions workflow file 'release.yml' to run Goreleaser
when pushing a tag in the SEMVER format, and a configuration file for
Goreleaser '.goreleaser.yaml' with some sensible defaults.
Also added a new file to .gitignore 'dist/'.

The automation of releases will reduce the workload of manually creating
binary files for several operational systems and architectures, and it
also helps ensure uniformity across builds.

.github/workflows/release.yml

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+name: release
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - "v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+"
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+jobs:
+  goreleaser:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v3
+        with:
+          go-version: 1.20
+      - name: Run GoReleaser
+        uses: goreleaser/goreleaser-action@v4
+        with:
+          distribution: goreleaser
+          version: latest
+          args: release --clean
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

.gitignore

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+
+dist/

.goreleaser.yaml

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+# This is an example .goreleaser.yml file with some sensible defaults.
+# Make sure to check the documentation at https://goreleaser.com
+before:
+  hooks:
+    # You may remove this if you don't use go modules.
+    - go mod tidy
+    # you may remove this if you don't need go generate
+    - go generate ./...
+builds:
+  - env:
+      - CGO_ENABLED=0
+    goos:
+      - linux
+      - windows
+      - darwin
+
+archives:
+  - format: tar.gz
+    # this name template makes the OS and Arch compatible with the results of uname.
+    name_template: >-
+      {{ .ProjectName }}_
+      {{- title .Os }}_
+      {{- if eq .Arch "amd64" }}x86_64
+      {{- else if eq .Arch "386" }}i386
+      {{- else }}{{ .Arch }}{{ end }}
+      {{- if .Arm }}v{{ .Arm }}{{ end }}
+    # use zip for windows archives
+    format_overrides:
+      - goos: windows
+        format: zip
+checksum:
+  name_template: 'checksums.txt'
+snapshot:
+  name_template: "{{ incpatch .Version }}-next"
+changelog:
+  sort: asc
+  filters:
+    exclude:
+      - '^📝'
+      - '^✅'
+
+# The lines beneath this are called `modelines`. See `:help modeline`
+# Feel free to remove those if you don't want/use them.
+# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://goreleaser.com/static/schema.json
+# vim: set ts=2 sw=2 tw=0 fo=cnqoj