Release Process

Northstar releases small changes throughout the week during staffed support hours.

Release checklist

• Continuous integration is green.
• Database changes are backward compatible.
• Feature flags have an owner and removal date.
• Dashboards and logs can confirm expected behavior.
• Rollback steps are documented.

Deploy

releasectl plan orbit-api --version 2.8.0
releasectl deploy orbit-api --canary 10
releasectl promote orbit-api

Verify

Watch request errors, latency, queue depth, and the changed business metric for at least fifteen minutes. Roll back if a release breaches its safety threshold.

If users are affected, follow incident response rather than debugging privately.