Release Review: NumberVerification r4.1 (rc Sync26)

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Release Review: r4.1 rc

This PR finalizes the reviewable release content for the active snapshot.

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Release contents

API	Version	Status	Comparison target
number-verification	2.1.1-rc.2	rc	2.1.0

Dependencies: Commonalities r4.3, ICM r4.2

Codeowner Actions

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• Document deferred validation warnings (and hints)

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  • Check the CAMARA Validation comment on this PR for warnings and hints.
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Nr	Asset	alpha	rc	initial public	stable public
1	Release Plan	M	M	M	M
2	API Definition(s)	M	M	M	M
3	Commonalities compliance	O	M	M	M
4	API Documentation	M	M	M	M
5	User Stories	O	O	O	M
6	Test Cases (basic)	O	M	M	M
7	Test Cases (enhanced)	O	O	O	M
8	API Description	O	O	M	M

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Snapshot: r4.1-bb0c748

[camara-validation]

CAMARA Validation — PASS (with warnings)

0 errors, 1 warnings, 0 hints | Profile: standard

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Warnings MUST be documented in one or more issues before this release — see the Codeowner Actions in the PR description.

[tanjadegroot]

Hi team, please complete the code owner actions, thanks !

[albertoramosmonagas]

Hi @AxelNennker & @bigludo7, I don't have permission to mark the boxes as “done,” but I'd say that, as far as TEF is concerned, there's nothing else to do here so as not to block the release management review (@tanjadegroot). WDYT?

[hdamker]

I've reviewed the PR and content changes of this release. The two content findings are collected in #245:

• the reference of Generic400 has accidentally defined an additional error response code (OUT_OF_RANGE) which wasn't present in v2.1.0. As this addition would be breaking change and would need to be documented as such, I recommend to fix #247 on main before creating r4.1
• #246 is more cosmetic, but as this is a validation warning it must be documented as deferred or fixed. It is also easy to fix, a small inconsistency in applying the ref/bundling.

Three additional points regarding the release process - for the next snapshot after the fix:

• please do the codeowner actions timely and tick them off to avoid further delays in the release process ... please check also the validation results here on the Release Review PR ... the warning was not documented in an issue
• document the relevant changes from #235, especially the newly documented request-body strictness, and the PR #235 itself for information in the CHANGELOG
• The Design Guide RECOMMENDs a minor bump when an existing API adopts the request-body-strictness template ("Stable APIs (version ≥ v1.0): minor bump"). This release adopts it and ships as patch 2.1.1, which is worth a deliberate decision either way. It might be defensible, since NumberVerificationRequestBody already had maxProperties: 1 and therefore the behavior is unchanged for this API