> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://openclaw.ai2me.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Release validation workflows

This page is an index. Release validation is documented on five pages, one
per reader job. Open the page that matches your task.

Full Release Validation retains Docker seed survivor, QA Smoke, and Control UI
performance through its normal CI child, independently of main owner-path selection.
Pull requests and exact-head PR fallbacks omit Docker seed and QA Smoke.
See [full release coverage](/ci/release-validation/full-release-validation)
for the exact survivor contract and target compatibility limits.

| Page | Read it when |
| - | - |
| [Full Release Validation](/ci/release-validation/full-release-validation) | The release umbrella: Validation/Tooling SHA binding, release publish, Docker Release, profiles, and recovery. |
| [Live and E2E shards](/ci/release-validation/live-and-e2e-shards) | The named live/E2E shards, their coverage, and the images they run in. |
| [Package Acceptance](/ci/release-validation/package-acceptance) | Validating one installable tarball: jobs, candidate sources, suite profiles, and examples. |
| [Install smoke and Docker E2E](/ci/release-validation/install-smoke-and-docker-e2e) | Install Smoke coverage, the local Docker E2E aggregate and tunables, and release-path chunks. |
| [Plugin Prerelease](/ci/release-validation/plugin-prerelease) | The separate, more expensive plugin product/package suite and when it is dispatched. |

The [bounded hybrid hosted offload](/ci/capacity#bounded-hybrid-hosted-offload) applies only to automatic CI first attempts. Full Release Validation, candidate/artifact workflows, and frozen-target workloads retain their existing coverage and runner routes.

## Where each section moved

Every section heading from the previous single-page version keeps its anchor here, so an existing link such as `/ci/release-validation#suite-profiles` still resolves. Each entry points at the page that now holds the content.

* <a id="full-release-validation" />[Full Release Validation](/ci/release-validation/full-release-validation#full-release-validation)
* <a id="live-and-e2e-shards" />[Live and E2E shards](/ci/release-validation/live-and-e2e-shards#live-and-e2e-shards)
* <a id="package-acceptance" />[Package Acceptance](/ci/release-validation/package-acceptance#package-acceptance)
* <a id="jobs" />[Jobs](/ci/release-validation/package-acceptance#jobs)
* <a id="candidate-sources" />[Candidate sources](/ci/release-validation/package-acceptance#candidate-sources)
* <a id="suite-profiles" />[Suite profiles](/ci/release-validation/package-acceptance#suite-profiles)
* <a id="legacy-compatibility-windows" />[Legacy compatibility windows](/ci/release-validation/package-acceptance#legacy-compatibility-windows)
* <a id="examples" />[Examples](/ci/release-validation/package-acceptance#examples)
* <a id="install-smoke" />[Install smoke](/ci/release-validation/install-smoke-and-docker-e2e#install-smoke)
* <a id="local-docker-e2e" />[Local Docker E2E](/ci/release-validation/install-smoke-and-docker-e2e#local-docker-e2e)
* <a id="tunables" />[Tunables](/ci/release-validation/install-smoke-and-docker-e2e#tunables)
* <a id="reusable-live/e2e-workflow" /><a id="reusable-live%2Fe2e-workflow" />[Reusable live/E2E workflow](/ci/release-validation/install-smoke-and-docker-e2e#reusable-live%2Fe2e-workflow)
* <a id="release-path-chunks" />[Release-path chunks](/ci/release-validation/install-smoke-and-docker-e2e#release-path-chunks)
* <a id="plugin-prerelease" />[Plugin Prerelease](/ci/release-validation/plugin-prerelease#plugin-prerelease)

## Related

* [Install overview](/install)
* [Release channels](/install/development-channels)


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