Cut a CARP pipeline release the project's way (version bump + annotated tag). Use whenever asked to "create/cut/make a release", "bump the version", or "tag X" (e.g. "create new release 1.0.0rc1"). Encodes version.py as the single source of truth, the unprefixed-tag convention, the CI gates, and the host-push step so a release is one command instead of an investigation.
2026-07-01