docs: add Releases

To explain our versiong rule
Finschia · Oct 13, 2023 · 95c3464 · 95c3464
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 4. You may merge the pull request in once you have the sign-off of two other developers, or if you
    do not have permission to do that, you may request the second reviewer to merge it for you.
 
+## Releases
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+Release is maintained in a release branch named `vX.X.X+Y.Y.Y-ZZZ` where `vX.X.X` is the original CosmWasm's release version, `Y.Y.Y` is our release version and `ZZZ` is additional information (e.g. rc, alpha).  
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+The reason we use build metadata (`+`) instead of pre-release versioning (`-`) is because CosmWasm's release version overrides the pre-release version.