Add beta branch support for releases (#282)

Updated release workflow and semantic-release config to include the beta branch and pattern-matched branches for release automation. The beta branch is now marked as a prerelease.

Author: parkerbxyz

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ name: release
 on:
  push:
  branches:
+ - "*.x"
  - main
+ - beta
 
 permissions:
  contents: write

package.json

@@ -32,7 +32,11 @@
  "release": {
  "branches": [
  "+([0-9]).x",
- "main"
+ "main",
+ {
+ "name": "beta",
+ "prerelease": true
+ }
  ],
  "plugins": [
  "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer",