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Summary

Publishing an older maintenance release currently forces GitHub's Latest flag, and a post-release comment failure can prevent verification evidence from being uploaded. Select Latest by numeric stable SemVer across all published release pages, and retain verification evidence before creating the comment token or posting the success comment.

The selector ignores draft and prerelease entries, recognizes historical v-prefixed stable tags, ignores build metadata for precedence, and stops publication if the release listing fails, exceeds 60 seconds, or is malformed. Publication jobs share a repository-wide concurrency group so simultaneous releases cannot race Latest selection.

Related Issues

• Held, qualified 0.6.1 release: chore(release-0.6): release 0.6.1 #936

Type of Change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• Documentation update
• Refactor (code improvement/cleanup)
• CI, release, or build tooling
• Other maintenance

Risk and Compatibility

This PR targets main only. PR #936 remains frozen at 6f6020e on patch base ddb4233. Its qualification and release content remain unchanged. Do not backport to release-0.6 until 0.6.1 is published.

The post-release workflow runs from the default branch, so the evidence ordering fix applies to 0.6.1. The Latest policy applies to future release snapshots; the existing 0.6.1 policy already has the intended result because current latest is 0.6.0.

Running publication jobs are not cancelled by the shared concurrency group. GitHub's queue: max retains up to 100 pending promotions instead of replacing the pending job. Existing tags, draft assets, and published-release rerun guards remain in effect.

Pinned actionlint 1.7.11 does not recognize the documented concurrency.queue property. A file-specific configuration ignores only that exact unknown-key diagnostic for release.yml; the release automation tests require the repository-wide group, disabled cancellation, and queue: max. Remove the compatibility exception after upstream actionlint#657 is fixed. All other workflow diagnostics remain enabled.

Verification

• Passed devenv shell -- make verify-workflows: actionlint, release automation, candidate/approval/removal guards, CI routing/tools, and Python execution tests.
• Passed go test -count=1 ./test/manifests/apicontract inside devenv.
• Twelve authorization/publication test methods cover older release lines, numeric versions, pagination, drafts, prereleases, legacy prefixes, build metadata, malformed/API-error responses, bounded lookup timeout, read-only published reruns, queued concurrency, and evidence-before-comment ordering.
• Read-only live selection returns false for 0.5.4 and true for 0.6.1 against current published releases. Tests use mocked GitHub commands and perform no publication.

Reviewer Notes

The new helper only reads the releases API and prints a boolean for gh release edit --latest=<boolean>. A failed lookup stops before asset upload or draft publication. Prerelease publication does not query or set Latest.

Evidence upload still requires successful verification and fails if evidence is absent. A failed upload prevents the success comment. No release, tag, draft, environment approval, manifest, or chart metadata changes are part of this PR.

Checklist

• My code follows the project style guide.
• I have performed a self-review of my own code.
• I have added or updated tests, or explained why tests are not needed.
• I have updated documentation, or explained why docs are not needed.
• I have updated generated artifacts, or confirmed none are affected.
• I have checked that this change does not log or expose secrets, tokens, credentials, keys, or raw Secret data.
• I have run the relevant local checks, or documented why they were not run.
• Any dependent changes have been merged, published, or clearly called out.

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• Release Management
  • Release publication is now serialized across workflow runs, preventing simultaneous releases from publishing at the same time.
  • Stable releases are marked as latest based on version comparison; prerelease handling remains unchanged.
• Bug Fixes
  • Verification evidence is uploaded immediately after post-release verification, so it is available earlier in the workflow.
• Tests
  • Added coverage for release ordering, latest-release selection, and verification evidence handling.

Release promotion now runs serially per repository and selects whether stable releases are latest using published SemVer versions. The post-release workflow uploads verification evidence immediately after verification.

Changes: Release publication

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Stable release version selection hack/ci/resolve-release-latest.py, hack/ci/test-release-authorization.py	The new script compares a stable target version with paginated published releases. Tests cover version comparison, invalid input, malformed release data, and prerelease handling.
Promotion serialization and workflow integration .github/workflows/release.yml, hack/ci/test-release-authorization.py	The promotion job uses repository-scoped concurrency without cancelling in-progress runs. Stable release publication passes the resolved latest value to gh release edit. Tests check concurrency and read-only reruns.

Post-release verification evidence

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Verification and evidence ordering .github/workflows/post-release-verification.yml, hack/ci/test-release-authorization.py	The evidence upload now runs immediately after post-release verification instead of after summary generation. Tests check ordering and upload settings.

Possibly related PRs

• kubebao/openbao-operator#928: Defines draft publication and read-only published-release reruns, which this change preserves while adding stable-release latest selection.

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 87e78

Release publication can be delayed by a stalled lookup, and three overlapping releases can leave one unpublished until rerun. These recoverable operational risks warrant owner awareness or follow-up; no broader publication or evidence-upload failure was established.

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Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @.github/workflows/release.yml:
- Around line 410-413: Update the promote workflow’s concurrency mechanism so
promotions remain serialized while every pending release is retained and
processed, rather than allowing a newer run to replace an older pending run; use
a durable queue or equivalent mechanism that supports this behavior, since the
current concurrency setting does not retain multiple pending runs.

Review comments at @hack/ci/resolve-release-latest.py:
- Around line 46-53: Add a finite timeout to the releases request made by
subprocess.run and handle subprocess.TimeoutExpired in the lookup failure path
so a stalled request stops publication and releases the promotion concurrency
group.

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