ci: add release-please workflow for automated versioning and Packagist publishing

Pipeline: push to 1.x → tests (PHP 8.2+8.4) → release-please
creates version PR → merge PR → tag created → Packagist auto-updates
via webhook.

Removes unused upstream Laravel workflow stubs.

Author: mariomeyer

.github/workflows/issues.yml.disabled

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+name: Release
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [1.x]
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  pull-requests: write
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: true
+      matrix:
+        include:
+          - php: '8.2'
+            laravel: 12
+          - php: '8.4'
+            laravel: 12
+    name: PHP ${{ matrix.php }} - Laravel ${{ matrix.laravel }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          path: 'sail'
+
+      - name: Setup PHP
+        uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
+        with:
+          php-version: ${{ matrix.php }}
+          extensions: dom, curl, libxml, mbstring, zip, fileinfo
+          tools: composer:v2
+          coverage: none
+
+      - name: Create a new Laravel application
+        run: composer create-project laravel/laravel app "${{ matrix.laravel }}.x" --remove-vcs --no-interaction --prefer-dist
+
+      - name: Link Sail repository
+        run: |
+          composer config minimum-stability dev
+          composer config repositories.sail path ../sail
+          composer require reyemtech/sail:* --dev -W
+        working-directory: app
+
+      - name: Install Sail
+        run: |
+          php artisan sail:install --php=${{ matrix.php }} --no-interaction
+          php artisan sail:publish --no-interaction
+        working-directory: app
+
+      - name: Run PHPUnit tests
+        run: |
+          cd ../sail && vendor/bin/phpunit
+        working-directory: app
+
+  release-please:
+    needs: test
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      release_created: ${{ steps.release.outputs.release_created }}
+      tag_name: ${{ steps.release.outputs.tag_name }}
+      version: ${{ steps.release.outputs.version }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: googleapis/release-please-action@v4
+        id: release
+        with:
+          config-file: release-please-config.json
+          manifest-file: .release-please-manifest.json
+
+      - name: Summary
+        if: steps.release.outputs.release_created
+        env:
+          VERSION: ${{ steps.release.outputs.version }}
+          TAG_NAME: ${{ steps.release.outputs.tag_name }}
+        run: |
+          echo "## Release Created" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+          echo "" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+          echo "- **Version:** $VERSION" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+          echo "- **Tag:** $TAG_NAME" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+          echo "- Packagist will auto-update via GitHub webhook" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"

.github/workflows/pull-requests.yml.disabled

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+{
+  ".": "1.51.1"
+}

.github/workflows/release.yml

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+{
+  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/release-please/main/schemas/config.json",
+  "release-type": "php",
+  "packages": {
+    ".": {
+      "changelog-path": "CHANGELOG.md",
+      "bump-minor-pre-major": true,
+      "bump-patch-for-minor-pre-major": true
+    }
+  }
+}