Release policy

Treat every upgrade as a production change with verification steps.

Upgrade checklist

1. Read release notes and breaking changes.
2. Validate environment variable changes.
3. Deploy to staging first.
4. Run schema/content smoke tests.
5. Promote to production.

Recommended note format

For each release, include:

• Date
• Version
• Added
• Changed
• Fixed
• Migration steps
• Rollback notes

Example entry template

## 2026-02-25 - v0.x.y
 
### Added
- ...
 
### Changed
- ...
 
### Fixed
- ...
 
### Migration
- ...