Implemented
Engineering is established
The capability or increment is engineering complete, but release certification has not yet established it as a programme baseline.
Knowledge / Releases
Releases records a constitutional boundary: the point at which an engineering increment has completed the required programme lifecycle and may be treated as an established programme baseline.
Lifecycle
Engineering establishes an increment. Programme Governance assesses it against the governing programme. Release Certification establishes whether that increment has crossed the required lifecycle. Each stage answers a different question.
State distinction
Implemented
The capability or increment is engineering complete, but release certification has not yet established it as a programme baseline.
Released
Required programme governance and release certification have completed, and governing authority establishes the release state.
Implemented ≠ Released
Substantiation
Before certification, repository state is reconciled against the authority and evidence intended to govern the release. Engineering completion, reconciliation, governance evidence and a certification decision can substantiate release standing; none is sufficient alone.
Not every evidence artefact is public. Public visibility follows established public eligibility rather than the mere existence of an internal record.
Current public standing
Current public authority establishes released programme foundations, but it does not establish a public, named release register with certified version identifiers. This page therefore does not infer or publish version releases from implementation, tags or repository history.
Published programme foundation
Released programme foundation
Released programme foundation
Released programme foundation
Released programme foundation
Released programme foundation
These maturity signals describe public programme standing. They do not claim public, commercial or operational availability.
Bounded example
Operational Readiness shows why the distinction matters. Its engineering completion is established, while release certification is still pending. It is not presented here as Released.
Programme standing:Engineering complete; release certification pending
Public availability:Not claimed
Verification journey
Canon establishes what governs Enterprise Reality. Architecture explains how it is structured and bounded. Releases answers the later question of which implemented increments have completed the lifecycle required to become established programme baselines.
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Releases verifies lifecycle standing. It does not turn architecture, implementation or website availability into release authority.