Adjust release notes

Author: srtfisher

.github/workflows/release-from-changelog.yml

@@ -48,7 +48,22 @@ jobs:
         id: extract_notes
         run: |
           echo "Extracting release notes for version: $version"
-          echo "${{ fromJson(steps.parse-changelog.outputs.result)[0].contents }}" > RELEASE_NOTES.md
+
+          # Save the raw JSON to a file to avoid GitHub Actions template processing that strips backticks
+          echo '${{ steps.parse-changelog.outputs.result }}' > /tmp/changelog_raw.json
+
+          CHANGELOG_CONTENTS=$(cat /tmp/changelog_raw.json | jq -r '.[0].contents // empty')
+          echo "Changelog contents: (content length: ${#CHANGELOG_CONTENTS} characters)"
+
+          if [[ -z "$CHANGELOG_CONTENTS" ]]; then
+            echo "🚨 No changelog contents found. Exiting."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          # Save the extracted content to a file to preserve special characters
+          echo "$CHANGELOG_CONTENTS" > RELEASE_NOTES.md
+
+          # echo "${{ fromJson(steps.parse-changelog.outputs.result)[0].contents }}" > RELEASE_NOTES.md
           # echo ""
           # sed -n '/^## '"$version"'/,/^## /p' CHANGELOG.md | sed '1d;$d' > RELEASE_NOTES.md
           # # Remove line wrapping.