Activated an owner-authorized HOS release control plane.
Eligible no-schema-change production promotions can now move through an owner-authorized release workflow with current-head gate enforcement and post-deploy closure verification.
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Keeps production promotion owner-authorized.
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Requires the current qualified revision rather than a stale candidate.
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Verifies closure after deployment instead of treating merge as the end of the release.
Release automation can reduce repetitive promotion work without removing explicit authorization or evidence that the deployed revision is the intended one.
Release-note boundary
Shipped means verified, not planned.
This update records work that had a verifiable release or active control-plane state at the time it was published.
Roadmap ideas, experiments, internal discussion, and unverified capability are not presented here as shipped product.