Release: Issue-Aware Releases And Local Code-Map Acceptances

Forgeflow 4.3.18 improves the release loop and downstream smoke clarity. Release-note drafts can surface referenced issues safely, smoke explains expected import gaps more clearly, code-map can read local exact-gap acceptances, and release readiness can run a local post-publish verification pass.

Release Loop

• render-release-notes.js now extracts local #123 issue references from recent commit subjects and renders an advisory referenced-issues section.
• Release docs now require verifying issue state before claiming an issue is fixed or closed.
• /forgeflow-release-readiness --post-publish adds local advisory verification for plugin version, local tag, changelog, release-note draft, source smoke, and update smoke evidence.
• Post-publish verification supports patch-zero changelog filenames such as v4.2.html.

Code Map And Smoke

• /forgeflow-smoke now explains production, expected, local-accepted, and needs-review import-gap counts separately.
• /forgeflow-code-map can read local-only exact acceptances from .forgeflow/<project>/code-map-accept.json.
• Accepted gaps stay visible as accepted-local, count as expected, and do not hide stale or invalid acceptance entries.
• Malformed acceptance files now report invalid shape instead of being silently ignored.

Validation

• node scripts/forgeflow/test-render-release-notes.js
• node scripts/forgeflow/test-smoke-check.js
• node scripts/forgeflow/test-show-code-map.js
• node scripts/forgeflow/test-render-release-readiness.js
• Full scripts/forgeflow/test-*.js suite