Community v1.0.0 rc.1 Publication Verification

Community v1.0.0 RC1 Publication Readiness Verification

This packet verifies that CAVRA Community v1.0.0 RC1 is ready to be published as a dry-run release-candidate record. It does not claim that final artifacts exist yet.

Release Metadata

Field	Value
Release	CAVRA Community v1.0.0 RC1
State	dry-run-publication-ready
Repository	Huzefaaa2/cavra
Tag	community-v1.0.0-rc.1
Package version	1.0.0rc1
Planned GitHub Release	https://github.com/Huzefaaa2/cavra/releases/tag/community-v1.0.0-rc.1
Release notes	docs/releases/community-v1.0.0-rc.1.md
Publication preparation	docs/community-v1.0.0-release-candidate-publication.md
Verification workflow	https://github.com/Huzefaaa2/cavra/actions/workflows/verify-community-release.yml

Gate Summary

Gate	Status	Evidence
Node 24 readiness baseline	Pass	Current Community workflows use Node 24-ready action versions.
Release notes	Pass	docs/releases/community-v1.0.0-rc.1.md
README link	Pass	README.md links RC1 release notes, readiness verification, and publication packet.
Wiki link	Pass	docs/wiki/Home.md links RC1 release notes, verification, and publication preparation.
Release index	Pass	docs/community-release-index.md includes RC1 as a dry-run release record.
Readiness dashboard	Pass	docs/community-release-readiness-dashboard.md includes RC1 with pending real artifacts.
Signed artifact verification	Warn	Pending real community-v1.0.0-rc.1 artifacts, SHA-256 checksums, signatures, and attestations.
Provenance evidence	Warn	Pending real SBOM and SLSA provenance references from the release workflow.
Install smoke	Warn	Pending clean install smoke from the published wheel.
Public boundary	Pass	bash scripts/validate-boundaries.sh . remains mandatory before publication.

The dry-run record is announcement-ready for documentation review, but not for public release announcement until signed artifact verification and provenance evidence are recorded from real artifacts.

Accepted Risk

This is a dry-run publication readiness record. Final artifact checksums, detached signatures, keyless attestation evidence, SBOM metadata, SLSA provenance, GitHub Release asset links, and clean install smoke cannot be recorded until the RC1 release is published from merged main.

The compensating control is to keep RC1 indexed as Dry run, mark readiness as Pending real artifacts, and require post-publication verification before announcing RC1 as published.

Validation Commands

python3 scripts/validate-community-v100-rc-publication.py
python3 scripts/validate-community-v100-rc-hardening.py
python3 scripts/validate-community-release-note-freshness.py
python3 scripts/validate-community-release-index.py
python3 scripts/validate-community-release-readiness-dashboard.py
bash scripts/validate-boundaries.sh .

Boundary Notice

This verification covers public Community release-candidate readiness only. Enterprise source code, paid policy packs, SaaS backend implementation, license-service internals, private signing keys, private registry credentials, and customer records are not included.

Decision

Decision: approve RC1 dry-run publication readiness.

Final publication still requires real artifacts, signed artifact checksums, provenance evidence, GitHub Release links, and post-publication verification.

Next Recommendation

Publish Community v1.0.0 release-candidate artifacts from the completed Node 24 readiness baseline and record signed artifact checksums, provenance, GitHub Release links, and post-publication verification evidence.