ci: add PR tests

also updates the go setup var for the release action to use stable go
version

Signed-off-by: TJ Hoplock <[email protected]>

Author: tjhop

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Go
         uses: actions/setup-go@v5
         with:
-          go-version: '>=1.23.0'
+          go-version: stable
           cache: true
       - name: Go Preflight Tests
         run: |

.github/workflows/tests.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+name: tests
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - v*
+    branches:
+      - main
+  pull_request:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  golangci:
+    name: test
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - run: git fetch --force --tags
+      - name: Set up Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: stable
+          cache: true
+      - name: Go Preflight Tests
+        run: |
+          go mod tidy
+          go test -v ./...