Resolve "Compiling in Release disables asserts, making variables unused (Werror)"

Alberto Mirandarequested to merge
amiranda/58-compiling-in-release-disables-asserts-making-variables-unused-werror into main

This MR fixes several build errors that only appeared on Release builds.

It also adds a new build_release job to the CI pipelines to exercise a build in Release mode.

Closes #58 (closed)

Edited by Alberto Miranda

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