PUBLIC_RELEASE_NOTES.md

Public packaging notes

This is the public distribution of the completed v3.0.0 research, prepared 2026-09-19. Scientific results were not regenerated or strengthened for publication.

• The 48-page consolidated PDF, complete manuscript, simulation source, raw scientific results, figures and source research documents retain their original bytes.
• Private source retrieval identifiers were removed from provenance/sources.json and the corresponding v2 snapshot metadata. Scientific source hashes remain available.
• The historical manuscript and source audit describe retention of the original v2 archive in the original research package. This public distribution instead contains the public v2 snapshot. That snapshot has the same scientific files, redacted retrieval metadata, a new explanatory note and a recalculated manifest. It is not byte-identical to the original archive.
• The original v3 README is retained as docs/ORIGINAL_V3_README.md. Historical archive statements there have the same qualification.
• New publication files provide navigation, dataset exports, schemas, examples and uploader validation. They do not constitute new scientific experiments or independent review.
• The public full archive excludes itself and its external checksum wrappers to avoid recursive packaging. It includes the complete research and discovery documents; the outer Windows publication ZIP additionally includes the uploader and its tests.

Original v2 archive SHA256: fd1daecfa4b196ad03720faa6c270a34527c4ec34a1ccf32e8a5cbb826709a7b.

Original v3 PDF SHA256: c1cefe3b76c505e8736c55917eed062078e04a41e4f2a96eaaa5a911a402fb11.

results/package_validation.json is the historical research validation report. Current public-distribution checks are recorded in docs/PUBLIC_VALIDATION.json. Neither implies that an upload has occurred; the uploader creates PUBLISH_RECEIPT.json only after verifying the remote commit.