RC.8 Documentation revision 1

ait release — Complete Reference

Create and inspect release dossiers, build and package native artifacts, publish them, and promote admitted releases.

Audience: Release engineers

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Operating boundary#

Purpose: Create and inspect release dossiers, build and package native artifacts, publish them, and promote admitted releases.

Effect class: Release-authority and publication surface; build, publish, and promote operations can have external effects.

Coverage: 12 public help surfaces under ait release.

The blocks below preserve the RC.8 binary output in full, including every emitted argument, option, default, possible value, conflict, and requirement.

Complete command tree#

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ait release
ait release candidate
ait release candidate create
ait release check
ait release build
ait release native-source
ait release native-bundle
ait release package
ait release formula
ait release show
ait release publish
ait release promote

Exact emitted help#

`ait release`#

Reference description: Create and inspect release dossiers, build and package native artifacts, publish them, and promote admitted releases.

The RC.8 binary emits no separate prose description for this surface; the sentence above is editorial context. The complete parser-provided usage and options follow unchanged.

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Usage: ait release <COMMAND>

Commands:
  candidate      
  check          
  build          
  native-source  
  native-bundle  
  package        
  formula        
  show           
  publish        
  promote        
  help           Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help  Print help

`ait release candidate`#

Reference description: Group the operations that create release-candidate authority records.

The RC.8 binary emits no separate prose description for this surface; the sentence above is editorial context. The complete parser-provided usage and options follow unchanged.

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Usage: ait release candidate <COMMAND>

Commands:
  create  
  help    Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help  Print help

`ait release candidate create`#

Reference description: Create a release candidate for an exact version, Line, profile, and release channel.

The RC.8 binary emits no separate prose description for this surface; the sentence above is editorial context. The complete parser-provided usage and options follow unchanged.

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Usage: ait release candidate create [OPTIONS] --version <VERSION>

Options:
      --version <VERSION>  
      --line <LINE_NAME>   [default: main]
      --profile <PROFILE>  
      --channel <CHANNEL>  [possible values: rc, stable]
      --json               
  -h, --help               Print help

`ait release check`#

Reference description: Validate a release dossier, its component receipts and artifact bytes, and the stated test evidence.

The RC.8 binary emits no separate prose description for this surface; the sentence above is editorial context. The complete parser-provided usage and options follow unchanged.

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Usage: ait release check [OPTIONS] <RELEASE_ID>

Arguments:
  <RELEASE_ID>  

Options:
      --receipts <DIR>
          Verify family component receipts and artifact bytes below DIR
      --tests-command <TESTS_COMMAND>
          
      --skip-tests-reason <SKIP_TESTS_REASON>
          
      --json
          
  -h, --help
          Print help

`ait release build`#

Reference description: Freeze admitted family artifacts for a release from component receipts or an exact native target matrix.

The RC.8 binary emits no separate prose description for this surface; the sentence above is editorial context. The complete parser-provided usage and options follow unchanged.

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Usage: ait release build [OPTIONS] <RELEASE_ID>

Arguments:
  <RELEASE_ID>  

Options:
      --receipts <DIR>            Freeze family artifacts admitted from component receipts below DIR
      --native-matrix-dir <DIR>   Read target artifacts from DIR/<rust-target-triple>/release using ait-native-source.json descriptors.
      --native-command-dir <DIR>  Read current-host release command artifacts from this explicit directory.
      --json                      
  -h, --help                      Print help

`ait release native-source`#

Reference description: Record the exact source, runner, image, Rust toolchain, and compiler inputs for one native release target.

The RC.8 binary emits no separate prose description for this surface; the sentence above is editorial context. The complete parser-provided usage and options follow unchanged.

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Usage: ait release native-source [OPTIONS] --target <TARGET> --source-dir <DIR> --runner <RUNNER> --runner-image <RUNNER_IMAGE> --rust-toolchain <RUST_TOOLCHAIN> --rustc-path <PATH> <RELEASE_ID>

Arguments:
  <RELEASE_ID>  

Options:
      --target <TARGET>                  
      --source-dir <DIR>                 
      --runner <RUNNER>                  
      --runner-image <RUNNER_IMAGE>      
      --rust-toolchain <RUST_TOOLCHAIN>  
      --rustc-path <PATH>                
      --json                             
  -h, --help                             Print help

`ait release native-bundle`#

Reference description: Build native release bundles only from target directories carrying the required source descriptors.

The RC.8 binary emits no separate prose description for this surface; the sentence above is editorial context. The complete parser-provided usage and options follow unchanged.

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Usage: ait release native-bundle [OPTIONS] --native-matrix-dir <DIR> <RELEASE_ID>

Arguments:
  <RELEASE_ID>  

Options:
      --native-matrix-dir <DIR>  Build native bundles only from DIR/<rust-target-triple>/release using ait-native-source.json descriptors.
      --json                     
  -h, --help                     Print help

`ait release package`#

Reference description: Create channel-specific package output for an admitted release.

The RC.8 binary emits no separate prose description for this surface; the sentence above is editorial context. The complete parser-provided usage and options follow unchanged.

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Usage: ait release package [OPTIONS] --channel <CHANNEL> <RELEASE_ID>

Arguments:
  <RELEASE_ID>  

Options:
      --channel <CHANNEL>  Assemble one declared channel from an immutable frozen family build [possible values: homebrew, apt, winget, pypi, npm]
      --json               
  -h, --help               Print help

`ait release formula`#

Reference description: Generate a named package formula from an admitted release.

The RC.8 binary emits no separate prose description for this surface; the sentence above is editorial context. The complete parser-provided usage and options follow unchanged.

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Usage: ait release formula [OPTIONS] --name <NAME> <RELEASE_ID>

Arguments:
  <RELEASE_ID>  

Options:
      --name <NAME>
          
      --python-formula <PYTHON_FORMULA>
          Homebrew Python dependency formula written into the generated formula. [default: python@3]
      --json
          
  -h, --help
          Print help

`ait release show`#

Reference description: Show the release dossier and its recorded admission state.

The RC.8 binary emits no separate prose description for this surface; the sentence above is editorial context. The complete parser-provided usage and options follow unchanged.

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Usage: ait release show [OPTIONS] <RELEASE_ID>

Arguments:
  <RELEASE_ID>  

Options:
      --remote <REMOTE>  
      --json             
  -h, --help             Print help

`ait release publish`#

Reference description: Publish the selected admitted release artifacts through the configured publication boundary.

The RC.8 binary emits no separate prose description for this surface; the sentence above is editorial context. The complete parser-provided usage and options follow unchanged.

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Usage: ait release publish [OPTIONS] <RELEASE_ID>

Arguments:
  <RELEASE_ID>  

Options:
      --remote <REMOTE>  
      --json             
  -h, --help             Print help

`ait release promote`#

Reference description: Promote an admitted release to the selected release channel.

The RC.8 binary emits no separate prose description for this surface; the sentence above is editorial context. The complete parser-provided usage and options follow unchanged.

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Usage: ait release promote [OPTIONS] --channel <CHANNEL> <RELEASE_ID>

Arguments:
  <RELEASE_ID>  

Options:
      --channel <CHANNEL>  [possible values: rc, stable]
      --json               
  -h, --help               Print help

Version authority

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Owning component Snapshots

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ait-serverSNP-FBF302ADABC5
ait-runnerSNP-DF67532B0360
ait-pythonSNP-39225802847F
ait-nodeSNP-3D474B60B26F