fix: upgrade deprecated GitHub Actions to v4/v5 and fix MCP test job

actions/upload-artifact@v3 is fully deprecated and causes instant CI
failure. Also upgrades checkout, setup-python, cache, github-script,
and codecov actions to their latest major versions to resolve Node.js 20
deprecation warnings. Adds missing pytest install to MCP Vector DB test
job and pins ruff>=0.15 in CI to match local tooling.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       with:
         submodules: 'recursive'