Ben Gamari authored Oct 18, 2024 and Zubin committed Nov 14, 2024

Here we verify the previously informal invariant that stable release
version numbers must have three components, preventing costly failed
releases.

Specifically, the check fails in the following scenarios:

 * `version=9.13` while `RELEASE=YES` since this would imply a
   release made from an unstable branch
 * `version=9.13.0` since unstable versions should only have two
   components
 * `version=9.12` since this has the wrong number of version components
   for a stable branch

Fixes #25390.

(cherry picked from commit c02add17)