v1.2 release and migration readiness

Problem

The v1.2 release may include breaking changes to the platform integration layer — Cloud Run configuration schema changes, Stripe API version upgrades, new environment variable requirements, or database migration steps. Existing v1.0 customers need a clear upgrade path with migration scripts, communication of breaking changes, and rollback guidance. Without release and migration readiness, the upgrade becomes a support-intensive event where customers hit undocumented failures, and the team spends launch week firefighting instead of monitoring adoption.

Context

• Deeper or changed behavior in deployment, billing, connectivity, and production launch integration often creates migration work for users, operators, or downstream systems, and that work is easy to underestimate until release time.
• This task should make the release path explicit: what is changing, who is affected, what needs communication or tooling help, and how rollback would work if adoption goes sideways.
• Expected touchpoints include deployment automation, environment/runbook docs, billing/integration code, and ops checks, release notes, migration docs, compatibility checks, and any support/runbook surfaces that will absorb the change.

Possible Solutions

• A - Treat release readiness as a final checklist after implementation: simple, but it often surfaces migration risk too late to respond well.
• B - Recommended: plan release and migration alongside the feature depth work: document contract changes, compatibility handling, communication, and rollback before the release window.
• C - Force all users onto the new behavior with minimal migration help: faster to ship, but costly in trust and support load.

Plan

1. List the behavior, contract, or configuration changes in deployment, billing, connectivity, and production launch integration that could affect users, operators, or downstream consumers.
2. Define the migration path, release notes, compatibility expectations, and any temporary bridges or tooling needed for safe adoption.
3. Confirm the rollback and support posture for the riskiest changes and make sure the release owner surfaces are documented.
4. Review the plan against the actual implementation scope and create follow-up items for anything that cannot safely make the release cut.

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