- Full Release Validation now checks for a prior green validation whose
target differs only by release metadata (changelog/version stamps) and
reuses that evidence instead of re-running every lane; disable with
reuse_evidence=false. Evidence manifests chain through reuse runs via
evidenceReuse.runId and the summary re-verifies the chain root.
- The Docker runtime-assets preflight no longer serializes the CI,
plugin-prerelease, release-checks, and performance lanes; it runs in
parallel and stays enforced by the umbrella verifier.
- Umbrella runs for release/* refs now supersede in-progress runs with
the same ref and rerun group instead of requiring manual cancels.
- release_profile=beta treats the live-provider E2E suites as advisory
(third-party model deployments move underneath releases); stable and
full profiles keep them blocking, and beta live failures no longer
fail-fast-cancel the remaining release-check matrix.