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Requires a major version

Dependency updates

Generated or hand-written reference for the public surface

Changelog and release-note prose

Runnable examples and sample projects

Narrative guides, tutorials, how-tos

Upgrade and version-migration guidance

Repository README and top-level entry points

The documentation site itself: build, navigation, theming, search

Good for newcomers

Extra attention is needed

Latency, throughput, allocation, or footprint

Blocks the first emitter: an IR or plan contract hole, or a valid spec it fails on

Core first-emitter feature on mainstream specs

Rarer spec shapes, or an IR decision to settle before the emitter

Later emitters, M4 and up, 3.2-only, streaming, webhooks, rare constructs

Refactors, tests, CI, hostile-input hardening, cosmetic diagnostics, other formats

Worked in an earlier release

Must clear before the next release or deploy

Package metadata, manifests, distribution shape, published artifact

Semantic versioning, changelog entries, version-bump machinery

Already tracked elsewhere

Not a defect, or not reproducible

Deliberately not doing this

Security impact; see SECURITY.md for private reports

Waiting on something external

Waiting on the reporter

Defect in shipped behavior

Refactor or cleanup, no behavior change

Build, release, or CI configuration