# Governed Release Evidence Pack Template

## Purpose
Use this template to document why a release should be trusted, what changed, what was validated, and how it can be rolled back.

## Audience
- Security and assurance reviewers
- Release managers
- Risk, audit, and platform stakeholders

## 1) Release Identification
- Product or integration name:
- Release version:
- Build or artifact identifiers:
- Release date:
- Release owner:

## 2) Release Thesis
- Why this release exists:
- Risk reduction or governance objective:
- What governance claim is strengthened:

## 3) Change Summary
- Functional changes:
- Policy or contract changes:
- Reason code changes:
- Evidence or schema changes:
- Known limitations:

## 4) Artifact Inventory
- Artifact names and versions:
- Checksum or digest references:
- Signed artifact references:
- Distribution scope:

## 5) Compatibility Declaration
- Certified version combinations:
- Lockdown-only combinations:
- Unsupported combinations:
- Caveats:

## 6) Validation Results
- Smoke or health checks:
- Functional allow, deny, and constrain checks:
- Adversarial or bypass checks:
- Performance or overhead summary:
- Evidence validation summary:

## 7) Operational Readiness
- Monitoring plan:
- Escalation path:
- Support owner:
- Rollout sequence:

## 8) Rollback Plan
- Rollback triggers:
- Rollback steps:
- Verification after rollback:

## 9) Signoff
- Engineering approval:
- Security or assurance approval:
- Release approval:
- Date of approval: