ci: upgrade pip before release audit

Author: Coding-Dev-Tools

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ jobs:
           python-version: "3.11"
 
       - name: Install release gate
-        run: python -m pip install --upgrade "setuptools>=83" build twine pip-audit ".[test]"
+        run: python -m pip install --upgrade "pip>=26.1.2" "setuptools>=83" build twine pip-audit ".[test]"
 
       - name: Require tag and package version to match
         if: github.event_name == 'push'