Pin action versions, scope permissions, and remove dead workflow

[jeremyprime]

Summary

Harden GitHub Actions workflows for supply-chain security and reproducibility. Pin all actions to specific SHA versions, add persist-credentials: false to checkout steps, scope explicit minimal permissions, and move release AWS role ARN to secrets.

Closes #101

Changes

• Pin all GitHub Actions to specific SHA versions (with actual version in comment for readability)
• Add persist-credentials: false to all checkout steps
• Add explicit minimal permissions blocks to workflows that relied on defaults
• Moved AWS role ARN for release workflow from env var to secret
• Remove project.yml (Spring Projects triage automation that never runs under valkey-io)

Testing

• CI and lint workflows ran automatically on this PR (in upstream)
• Benchmark was triggered manually via workflow_dispatch (but currently no runners to verify that workflow)
• Release and docs workflows will be validated at release time

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The pull request hardens GitHub Actions workflows with read-only contents permissions and disabled checkout credentials. It updates action versions across benchmark, CI, documentation, release, and publishing workflows, and removes the project automation workflow.

Changes

Workflow hardening and action updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Permissions and checkout hardening .github/workflows/benchmark.yml, .github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/lint-github-workflows.yml	Workflows add read-only repository contents permissions. Checkout actions use v4.4.0 with persisted credentials disabled.
Build and documentation action updates .github/workflows/benchmark.yml, .github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/docs.yml	Cache, Java setup, artifact upload, Pages configuration, and Pages deployment actions use updated versions.
Release and publish action updates .github/workflows/release.yml, .github/workflows/project.yml	Release and publish jobs update their action versions. The project automation workflow is removed.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	The PR implements credential and permission changes but does not pin actions to commit SHAs as required by issue #101.	Pin every GitHub Action to a commit SHA, while retaining the checkout credential and minimal permission changes.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The workflow updates and removal of project.yml align with the stated security, reproducibility, permission, and cleanup objectives.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main changes: pinning action versions, limiting permissions, and removing an unused workflow.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the workflow hardening, security changes, action pinning, and removal of the unused workflow.

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/benchmark.yml:
- Around line 144-146: Replace every version-tagged GitHub Action reference with
the verified 40-character commit SHA corresponding to that tag, preserving each
action version and workflow behavior. Apply this to
.github/workflows/benchmark.yml lines 144-146, 425-431, 441-449, and 838;
.github/workflows/ci.yml lines 25-27, 70-81, and 134-145;
.github/workflows/lint-github-workflows.yml lines 26-28;
.github/workflows/docs.yml lines 27-45, 70, and 84; and
.github/workflows/release.yml lines 16-27, 87, 106-117, and 132.

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• .github/workflows/benchmark.yml
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