Update release actions to Node 24

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What changed

• upgrade official GitHub Actions to their current Node 24-compatible majors
• upgrade the GitHub release action to its current Node 24-compatible major

Why

The v1.3.0 release dry run passed, but GitHub emitted Node 20 deprecation warnings for the older action majors. Updating before tagging keeps CI and publishing on supported runtimes and avoids shipping a release with known workflow warnings.

Validation

• official release manifests and release notes checked for current major versions
• v1.3.0 release dry run passed before this maintenance update
• PR CI and a second release dry run will gate the tag

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Pin actions to published major tags

In the inspected CI and Release workflows, actions/checkout does not publish a v7 tag, so GitHub Actions cannot resolve this step and each affected job stops before any repository checks run. The same update also introduces unpublished majors for several other official actions, including setup-python@v7, setup-node@v7, upload-artifact@v7, and download-artifact@v8; pin these references to their actual published Node 24-compatible majors.

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