fix(release): consolidate release config so all commit types surface in notes

[dawsontoth]

Why

Our semantic-release repos generate GitHub release notes with the conventionalcommits preset, but the behavior had drifted and, in several repos, notes were coming out empty. Two separate causes:

1. Preset v10 breaks rendering. @semantic-release/release-notes-generator@14 still bundles the Handlebars-based conventional-changelog-writer@8. The conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits v10 preset rewrote its templates as JS functions for the newer @conventional-changelog/template engine (writer@9); fed to writer@8 only the header survives, so every release note collapses to just its ## [x.y.z]… line.
2. presetConfig.types drift. Types like chore/chore(deps)/ci/build/style were hidden or missing, so dependency-only releases (the common Renovate case) produced empty notes.

This PR makes the repo consistent with studio's canonical release config (which surfaces every commit type) and holds the preset on v9 where relevant. Reference: HarperFast/studio#1560.

What changed

• Resolved config shadowing: .releaserc.json (no presetConfig) was silently overriding release.config.js (cosmiconfig loads the first match), so the preset fell back to defaults and hid chore/chore(deps)/etc. — dependency-only releases came out empty. Moved the presetConfig into .releaserc.json and deleted the dead release.config.js.
• Aligned presetConfig.types to studio's superset.
• Added the Renovate guard.

(No lockfile change — the preset devDep is already on a 9.x range.)

Canonical presetConfig.types (matches studio)

feat→Features, fix→Bug Fixes, perf→Performance Improvements, refactor→Refactoring, chore(deps)→Dependency Updates, chore→Chores, docs→Documentation, style→Styles, test→Tests, build→Build System, ci→Continuous Integration, revert→Reverts — nothing hidden, so no release comes out empty.

Renovate guard

Added a packageRules entry pinning conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits to <10 so Renovate won't re-introduce the v10 breakage. Remove once @semantic-release/release-notes-generator ships a writer@9-based major.

Verification

• .releaserc.json is valid JSON.

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Code Review

This pull request updates the release configuration by migrating settings to .releaserc.json, removing an obsolete configuration file, and adding a Renovate rule to pin conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits to version 9 to avoid empty release notes. Feedback on the changes points out that the conventionalcommits preset does not support grouping by scope, meaning duplicate "chore" type entries will overwrite each other, and suggests consolidating them into a single entry.

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