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title: "Release Production"
description: "Release promotes the exact current Staging artifact to Production. It does not rebuild, copy Staging data, or wait for release approval. The first Production release starts Priv…"
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# Release Production

Terminal

```
sota release
sota status
```

Release promotes the **exact current Staging artifact** to Production. It does not rebuild, copy Staging data, or wait for release approval. The first Production release starts **Private**; later releases preserve the current visibility and App Store eligibility.

- Confirm the Staging artifact ID and version are the ones you tested.
- Verify Production backend, health URL, secrets, CORS, and data stores.
- Release, then smoke-test installation, workspace enablement, tools, native UI, and audit events.
- Keep a previous version available; release a new version to roll forward.