PolicyWatcher v3.5.0 Confidence Release
PolicyWatcher 3.5.0 is the Confidence Release: a maintenance and consolidation release focused on truthfulness, dataset QA, evidence boundaries, and operational assurance.
Highlights:
- Truth & Confidence Layer with policy data status, ingestion method, last-check timestamps, and check-log evidence.
- Public Trust & Quality page with OpenSSF Best Practices project 13465, OpenSSF Scorecard, GitHub quality workflow badges, and non-certification wording.
- Admin Dataset QA, KPI audit, explainability, metrics, database, cron, and encrypted-backup controls aligned to v3.5.
- API smoke validation command: npm run api:smoke.
- Hardened deployment headers, PostCSS override for CVE-2026-41305, and production build validation.
- README Mermaid ingestion sequence fixed for GitHub rich rendering.
Validation run locally before publishing:
- npm run lint
- npm run test
- npm run qa:dataset: 0 blockers, 1 Plaid legal-hub warning
- npm run api:smoke: 24 passed, 0 failed
- npm run build
Boundary: these badges and checks are operational quality evidence, not legal, regulatory, or security certification.