PolicyWatcher Beta 42: Evidence Release Control Plane

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Outcome

Ships PolicyWatcher 3.9.0 Beta 42, Evidence Release Control Plane, as two technical waves and one UI/UX wave.

Technical wave 1

• adds a human-approved AI model registry and JSON Schema
• qualifies the observed BM25 and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite baselines
• keeps Qwen3/BGE pending, Gemini 3.7 Flash blocked, and RAGFlow/LightRAG/Kimi K3/GraphRAG research-only
• adds privacy-safe OpenTelemetry GenAI attribute projection without prompt, response, or source content

Technical wave 2

• adds a validated fourteen-day release evidence ledger
• publishes the read-only /api/v1/release-evidence endpoint with SHA-256 digest, ETag, CORS, and cache policy
• joins every ledger entry to the public release and impact registries

UI/UX and press wave

• adds the accessible Release Evidence Pulse to the homepage and Pulse story
• adds bilingual deterministic PNG/WebP infographics and updated fact sheets
• adds EN/IT press releases, press brief, release notes, asset metadata, and checksums

Verification

• 746/746 Vitest tests passed with coverage
• ESLint passed
• Next.js production build passed (163 static pages)
• production dependency audit: 0 vulnerabilities
• Playwright: 1440, 390, and 320 px; no overflow or console errors; reduced motion verified
• independent UI/UX evaluation: PASS
• security diff review: 43/43 surfaces, 0 reportable findings
• clean Hostinger artifact generated from commit 653e87b

Evidence boundary

Model qualification is dataset-scoped and human-approved. Release metrics describe implementation, not adoption, compliance, independent validation, accessibility conformance, or continuous service quality. Content Credentials are not attached to the press assets; this is disclosed in metadata.