CI: Drop USN descriptions from release when too big

[selzoc]

We recently ran into a problem where publishing a stemcell failed because our USN resource was broken for a month, and thus we accumulated many many fixed CVES. So many that we exceeded the allowed length of a github release body.

This commit drops the USN description text in that case.

ref: https://bosh.ci.cloudfoundry.org/teams/stemcell/pipelines/ubuntu-jammy/jobs/publish-ubuntu-jammy-1/builds/8#L6a80df77:3 (this pr takes it down to ~75k characters)

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Walkthrough

The release metadata script now centralizes body creation in write_body. It prepares version data before writing, uses shared paths for output and Ubuntu USN data, and passes an option to format_usn_log to control descriptions. The script first writes descriptions, then regenerates the body without them when the file exceeds 120,000 bytes.

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to ff719

When the CVE lists alone exceed the configured release-body limit, this change can still produce an oversized body, causing GitHub to reject the release and CI to fail; merge should wait until the final rendered body is guaranteed to fit.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 1 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: CI omits USN descriptions when the GitHub release body is too large.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the failure cause, the implemented behavior, and the expected reduction in release-body size. It does not explicitly document the merge-forward plan or AI review status from t…

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The description explains the failure cause, the implemented behavior, and the expected reduction in release-body size. It does not explicitly document the merge-forward plan or AI review status from the repository template, but these omissions are non-critical.

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Inline comments:
In `@ci/tasks/build-release-metadata.sh`:
- Line 85: Update the fallback rendering flow in build-release-metadata.sh so
the final body produced when write_body is false is deterministically capped at
MAX_BODY_LEN, including when USN CVE entries alone exceed the limit. Limit
rendered USN entries or CVEs as needed, then validate the resulting body length
before submitting it.

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