add release automation
Add release automation via release-it. This necessitates skipping the trailing newline check in CHANGELOG.md since the release-it script does not append one.
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Add release automation via release-it. This necessitates skipping the trailing newline check in CHANGELOG.md since the release-it script does not append one.