From fea97f8a56d1b70741cb8366cc9a40ac282c15b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Cooper <coopernetes@proton.me>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:30:09 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] chore: bump version to 1.0.0-rc.1

Also documents the -PskipFrontend flag in CONTRIBUTING.md for Java-only
dashboard development.
---
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 8 ++++++++
 build.gradle    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index a224d60a..66441b27 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -25,6 +25,14 @@ Gradle itself is included via the wrapper — no separate installation needed.
 
 Formatting is enforced in CI. Always run `spotlessApply` before pushing.
 
+When working on Java-only changes in the dashboard module, pass `-PskipFrontend` to skip the
+Node/npm frontend build steps (requires Node to be available otherwise):
+
+```shell
+./gradlew :git-proxy-java-dashboard:compileJava -PskipFrontend
+./gradlew :git-proxy-java-dashboard:build -PskipFrontend
+```
+
 ## Running the server locally
 
 ### Proxy only (no dashboard)
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index ac5875ae..09c1ad77 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ ext {
 
 allprojects {
     group = 'org.finos.gitproxy'
-    version = '1.0.0-beta.4'
+    version = '1.0.0-rc.1'
     
     repositories {
         mavenCentral()