Reference data and release candidates

Current release candidates use a compact reference boundary.

  • references/current/ catalogs the small active local/external reference policy.

  • qualification/frozen/ contains frozen comparator/reference code required to enforce accepted science.

  • qualification/parity_freeze_current_source_hashes.json pins exact active science-critical source bytes.

  • xstar_test_run/ retains small reference CSVs still consumed by runtime/regression code.

  • atdb.fits remains external and must not be bundled.

Closed milestone reports, forensic scripts, and predecessor replay manifests are are not active release inputs after the repository cleanup; version-control history and tags preserve those records.

Before producing a release candidate run:

python tools/ci/check_tree_clean.py
python tools/ci/check_package_metadata.py
python tools/qualification/check_parity_freeze.py
python tools/qualification/check_source_concordance.py
python tools/release/check_release_candidate.py