Fix some workflows and remove a few easy to replace third-party actions

[absidue]

Pull Request Type

• Other

Description

This pull request contains a collection of fixes for the GitHub Actions workflows and also replaces the some third-party actions with bash, jq and gh. I have split the changes up into separate commits to make reviewing easier.

Fixes:

• Fixes the bash syntax errors in the release workflow
• Fix errors in the actions/stale workflow when it tries to label and close issues by setting the label thresholds to -1, as actions/stale doesn't have a setting to only process pull requests
• Merging a pull request is just closing with extra steps, so combine the merge and close label removal into a single job

Replaced actions:

• jaywcjlove/github-action-package: reading and setting the version in the package.json file -> jq
• actions/github-script: used to determine the version format for nightlies and RC releases -> bash script
• mondeja/remove-labels-gh-action -> GitHub CLI/gh

Testing

I ran the added bash scripts locally to check that they worked and also ran actionlint (with shellcheck installed otherwise actionlint doesn't check the scripts) to make sure there were no new issues.