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Strycher 4f8b4c3736 feat(#342 ): author rc.3 release notes (GitHub / Play / Discord) The gate introduced in this PR correctly FAILED on its own PR in 8s: pubspec is rc.3, which had a CHANGELOG section but no notes files. That is the gate working exactly as intended, demonstrated live. Fix is the work we needed regardless: author rc.3's three per-audience notes. This also seeds dev so every future dev PR passes the gate (the current version now has all four files), and the rc.3 backfill branch will carry these to build the actual release. DRAFTS for owner review — the prose is mine, the judgement is Ben's. Play blurb is 403/500 chars. Part of epic #312, plan #321. Agent: SapphireCompass (session 8d755b5e)	21 hours ago
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1.1.2-rc.3.txt	feat(#342 ): author rc.3 release notes (GitHub / Play / Discord)	21 hours ago
README.md	feat(#342 ): full-platform release automation + four-file notes gate	21 hours ago

Strycher 4f8b4c3736 feat(#342 ): author rc.3 release notes (GitHub / Play / Discord)

The gate introduced in this PR correctly FAILED on its own PR in 8s:
pubspec is rc.3, which had a CHANGELOG section but no notes files. That
is the gate working exactly as intended, demonstrated live.

Fix is the work we needed regardless: author rc.3's three per-audience
notes. This also seeds dev so every future dev PR passes the gate (the
current version now has all four files), and the rc.3 backfill branch
will carry these to build the actual release.

DRAFTS for owner review — the prose is mine, the judgement is Ben's.
Play blurb is 403/500 chars.

Part of epic #312, plan #321. Agent: SapphireCompass (session 8d755b5e)

1.1.2-rc.3.txt

feat(#342 ): author rc.3 release notes (GitHub / Play / Discord)

README.md

feat(#342 ): full-platform release automation + four-file notes gate

README.md

Play Console "What's new"

One file per release: play/<version>.txt, e.g. play/1.1.2-rc.4.txt.

Hard limit: 500 Unicode characters. The release gate (scripts/release-gate.sh) fails the build if this file is missing, empty, or over 500 chars — so the limit is caught here, not as a Console rejection at upload time.

Style

Plain language for end users. No issue numbers, no internal terms. Not promotional (Google's Metadata policy forbids "free", "#1", "best", etc. and ALL-CAPS except a brand name).

The owner pastes this into Play Console manually. CI validates the file; it never uploads. Play distribution is an external, human-triggered action.