Production Readiness Checklist for SaaS releases

Release checklist

• Source commit known and build verified.
• Secrets separated from public environment variables.
• Auth persistence and authorization tested.
• Migrations, constraints and idempotency reviewed.
• Cache, polling, timeout and retry policies known.
• Failure states and real-device mobile flows tested.
• Canonical metadata, 404, robots and sitemap complete.
• Production errors and release version observable.
• Rollback path known.

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