ci: Allow release pipeline to use custom branch (#113)

Author: carlosthe19916

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ on:
       next:
         description: "Next version"
         required: false
+      branch:
+        description: "The branch to use when releasing"
+        required: true
+        default: "master"
+        type: string
 
 jobs:
   release:
@@ -17,6 +22,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+          ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.branch }}
       - name: Set release version
         env:
           RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ github.event.inputs.version }}

pom.xml

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
     <properties>
         <maven.compiler.source>17</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>17</maven.compiler.target>
-        <maven.compiler.release>11</maven.compiler.release>
+        <maven.compiler.release>17</maven.compiler.release>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>