# RC1 Readiness

## Release Candidate Status

RC1 is ready to enter the UI/UX phase. The business engine is feature-frozen pending that phase; this conclusion is based on the completed functional, security, performance, and production-hardening audits.

## Verified Areas

- **Security:** authorization/IDOR, mass assignment, payment callbacks, replay/double-spend, privacy, and XSS/upload/content-injection audits are complete.
- **Performance:** representative query-count bounds protect operational monitors, lead lists, Kanban, public CMS rendering, and shared notification props; no lock-order defect was confirmed.
- **Production:** environment-only secrets, explicit trusted proxies, HTTPS/session guidance, cacheability, health endpoint, scheduler, logging, migration, and deployment guidance are documented.
- **Coupons:** first-paid eligibility, referral exclusion, immutable order snapshots, payment revalidation, and redemption consumption are covered.
- **Partner:** top-Partner resolution, snapshot commission economics, wallet integrity, withdrawals, and receipts are covered.
- **Support:** ticket authorization, workflow, balance refunds, safe notifications, and operational listings are covered.
- **Registration:** approval/rejection/resubmission, privileged-field protection, and onboarding state handling are covered.
- **CMS:** scoped public rendering, revision/draft workflows, upload validation, and asset path safety are covered.
- **Payments:** CHIP callback authenticity, E-Wallet, zero-payable fulfilment, and exactly-once completion paths are covered.

## Operational Preconditions

Deploy with `APP_ENV=production`, `APP_DEBUG=false`, an HTTPS `APP_URL`, dedicated `APP_KEY` and `IC_HASH_KEY`, real mail/payment credentials, secure cookie settings, and explicit proxy IP/CIDR allowlists. Run `php artisan migrate --force`, build frontend assets, cache configuration/routes/views, and install the scheduler cron. Do not use fresh migrations or seeders in production.

## Deferred Infrastructure Work

This RC does not add caching infrastructure, queues/workers, search infrastructure, background exports, read replicas, WAF/CDN configuration, CI/CD, or secret-management automation. Those are deployment/platform decisions, not prerequisites for the completed application-engine audit.