---
title: "Governance Platform v1.0.0-rc.3 Release Notes"
description: "Customer-facing release status for the third Governance Platform v1.0.0 release candidate."
source: "Guardian Platform"
---
Governance Platform v1.0.0-rc.3 is the third release candidate for the v1.0.0
customer release line. This candidate supersedes the outstanding v1.0.0-rc.2
candidate and incorporates the latest product documentation and runtime updates
merged during QA week.

## Included Runtime Components

- Governance Studio
- Governance Service
- Auth Service
- Integrity Service
- EQTY PDFGen
- Governance Platform deployment charts

## Changes Since v1.0.0-rc.2

- Updates Governance Studio with timestamp handling, evaluation status wording,
  project settings cleanup, certificate drawer copy updates, API hook/type
  cleanup, and finalized v1.0.0 product documentation.
- Updates Governance Backend with product documentation, lint and dead-code
  standardization, governance evaluation and migration refinements, Auth Service
  environment output and end-to-end coverage improvements, database password
  escaping, and project credential removal from Governance Service.
- Updates Integrity Service source inputs with finalized v1.0.0 product
  documentation and README index updates.
- Updates EQTY PDFGen with stricter URL validation coverage.
- Refreshes the docsite release source map so Integrity product documentation is
  collected into generated v1.0.0 release docs.

## Candidate Scope

- Bumps runtime and umbrella Helm charts to `1.0.0-rc.3`.
- Pins component source refs, image tags, and image digests in the release
  manifest.
- Regenerates the Governance Platform umbrella chart lock file.
- Requires customer-like validation with Keycloak and external PostgreSQL before
  publication.

## Customer Artifacts

- Release manifest
- Packaged Helm charts
- Connected installation package
- Optional air-gap package when enabled for the release
- Generated OpenAPI reference
- Generated Helm values reference

## Before Installing

Confirm that the release manifest has `validation.evidence.status` set to
`approved`, and use only the chart versions and runtime image tags recorded in
that manifest. Do not mix v1.0.0-rc.3 images or charts with earlier release
candidates.

## Release Readiness

The deployment repository published the `platform/v1.0.0-rc.3` GitHub Release
after QA validation recorded the reviewer, review date, and validation notes in
the release manifest.

## Related

- [Governance Platform v1.2](../release-overview.mdx) — the current release line and its documentation areas
- [Release Manifest](../deployment/release-manifest.mdx) — the chart versions, image tags, and digests a release pins
- [Upgrade](../deployment/upgrade.mdx) — moving an environment to this release
- [Rollback](../deployment/rollback.mdx) — returning to the previous release if the upgrade is not accepted
- [Known Issues](../deployment/known-issues.mdx) — release advisories to review before installing
- [Governance Platform v1.0.0-rc.2 Release Notes](./v1-0-0-rc-2.mdx) — the release before this one