Incorporate new actions and workflows

Author: theBadT

.github/workflows/lint-repo.yml

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+# This workflow is going to be used during the development phase of the project
+# The workflow builds and tests the the sources on the following triggers:
+#   - once a change is pushed to the main branch or any of its sub-branches
+name: Library development workflow
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - 'main'  # runs the workflow, once new changes have been integrated to main
+      - 'main/**' # runs the workflow, once new changes have been integrated to a sub-branch of main
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - 'main' # run workflow in the scope of pull requests towards main
+  workflow_call:
+    secrets:
+      APAX_TOKEN:
+        required: true
+    inputs:
+      ref:
+        required: true
+        type: string
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read     # required for checkout
+  packages: read     # required for pulling the container
+  actions: write     # required for artifact uploading
+
+jobs:
+  build-and-test:
+    name: Build and Test
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    container:
+      image: ghcr.io/simatic-ax/ci-images/apax-ci-image:3.4.2
+      credentials:
+        username: ${{ github.actor }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+    steps: 
+      - name: Checkout Code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          # either check out a provided reference, or use the reference that triggered this workflow, e.g. a push, PR or a release
+          ref: ${{ inputs.ref != '' && inputs.ref || github.ref }}
+
+      - name: Check links
+        uses: gaurav-nelson/github-action-markdown-link-check@v1
+        with:
+          check-modified-files-only: 'yes'
+          base-branch: 'main'

.github/workflows/package-development-workflow.yml

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+# This workflow is triggered when a release is published via the UI
+# The workflow is only executed if the release is a tag and the target_commitish is a release branch
+name: Release workflow
+
+# Start the workflow as soon as a release has been published via the UI
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [published]
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write    # required for checkout
+  packages: write    # required for pulling the container
+  actions: write     # required for artifact downloading
+  pull-requests: write # Für PR-Erstellung und Management
+
+jobs:
+  call-development:
+    name: Build the package
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/package-development-workflow.yml
+    secrets:
+      APAX_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.APAX_TOKEN }}
+    with:
+      # checks out the branch that has been selected during the release process
+      ref: ${{ github.event.release.target_commitish }}
+
+  release:
+    name: Release the package
+    needs: call-development
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    container:
+      image: ghcr.io/simatic-ax/ci-images/apax-ci-image:3.4.2
+      credentials:
+        username: ${{ github.actor }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+    steps: 
+      - name: Checkout Code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ github.event.release.target_commitish }}
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Version package
+        uses: simatic-ax/actions/apax-version@v3
+        with:
+          version: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
+
+      - name: Package source code
+        uses: simatic-ax/actions/apax-pack@v3
+        with:
+          key: ${{ secrets.APAX_SIGNKEY }}
+
+      - name: Login to required registries
+        uses: simatic-ax/actions/apax-login@v3
+        with:
+          apax-token: ${{ secrets.APAX_TOKEN }}
+          registries: |
+            https://npm.pkg.github.com/,${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
+      - name: Publish apax package
+        uses: simatic-ax/actions/apax-publish@v3
+        with:
+          registries: |
+            https://npm.pkg.github.com