Use a manifest-first inventory with independent coverage for manifest-only bundled capabilities.
Retire the undocumented thread-ownership plugin while Doctor removes stale references.
Document Talk voice and persist only provider-scoped voice selection.
Closes#121353
Delay public GitHub release publication until postpublish verification, dependency evidence upload, proof append, and required plugin publish gates pass.
Also updates release-maintainer instructions so newly publishable plugins are minted/prepublished through an owner-approved path without consuming the next auto-bumped beta version unless that path is the actual release publish.
Peter Steinberger