AsiBackbone 7.1.0 Release Readiness Record

Release date: 2026-10-03

7.1.0 is a backward-compatible minor release for the stable 7.x package family. It adds analyzer rule ASIB004 and documented ASIB902 and ASIB903 deprecations without removing public APIs or changing their runtime behavior.

This record is a pre-tag checklist. Do not create v7.1.0 or publish packages until the release-preparation pull request is merged to protected main and the required hosted checks pass on the release candidate.

Version and compatibility boundary

[x] Directory.Build.props resolves package version 7.1.0.
[x] AssemblyVersion remains 7.0.0.0 and FileVersion is 7.1.0.0.
[x] CITATION.cff and .zenodo.json report version 7.1.0 and release date 2026-10-03.
[x] Template fallback package references use 7.1.0.
[x] NuGet lock files are refreshed for the 7.1.0 in-repository graph.
[x] Documentation release claims identify 7.1.0 as released and current.
[x] Public API baselines pass without an unreviewed stable API change.

Compatibility review

[x] Package IDs, public namespaces, target framework, durable schemas, canonical wire values, and documented runtime defaults are unchanged.
[x] ASIB004 is classified as a backward-compatible analyzer addition.
[x] ASIB902 and ASIB903 are warnings, retain working 7.x compatibility paths, name their replacements, and have dedicated migration guides.
[x] VerificationPolicyContext.WithLegacySignatureInputAllowed() remains supported for intentional historical evidence verification.
[x] The 8.0 removal language follows the minimum deprecation-window and major-release-spacing policies.

Local release-candidate validation

[x] Version consistency passes for 7.1.0 and v7.1.0.
[x] Documentation release-claim validation passes for v7.1.0.
[x] Package lock-file, dependency-suppression, API-baseline, architecture, and documentation-continuity validators pass.
[x] Locked restore passes.
[x] Debug and Release builds pass with zero warnings and errors.
[x] The full local test suite passes; provider tests that require hosted SQL Server or PostgreSQL are covered by the service-container CI job.
[x] Formatting verification passes.
[x] DocFX completes without errors.
[x] All stable packages pack as 7.1.0 and pass package metadata/content validation.
[x] Template and clean external-consumer smoke tests pass.

Hosted evidence required before tagging

[ ] CI, stable release validation, CodeQL, dependency review, dependency scanning, provider-contention, template smoke, and external-consumer jobs are green for the release-candidate commit.
[ ] The non-publishing package workflow produces the expected package, SBOM, hash, and release-evidence artifacts for maintainer review.
[ ] The tag will be created from the validated commit already merged to protected main.

Post-publish evidence