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Production access came through on 2026-08-01. Until now a `vX.Y.Z` tag could only reach `alpha` and someone had to promote it by hand in the Console; it now goes to `production` at 100% (`completed`). Canary is unchanged on `internal`, and its run-number versionCodes always outrank production, so testers keep getting the newer build. A tag therefore reaches real users with no further click. What keeps that honest: the tag is only pushed once every platform is green, and Play reviews each production release before it ships. Ramping instead is `--status inProgress --user-fraction 0.2` on the upload step. Play's "What's new" gets its own file, docs/releases/whatsnew/vX.Y.Z.txt — the vX.Y.Z.md body is ~34 KB against a 500-char cap, so it cannot be reused. Only tags have one; canary is a moving target and Play carrying the previous text over is fine for internal testers. Same freeze rule as the notes: once the tag exists, the file describes what that versionCode shipped. android-promote.yml is the lever for everything that is not a fresh tag — promote a tested build, halt a rollout, or roll production back onto an older versionCode. It is separate from android.yml because promotion must not rebuild, and an `if:` on all ten build steps is worse than one small workflow. dry_run defaults to true, so a mis-typed versionCode validates and deletes the edit instead of publishing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>