From 882874f53686b82db9fdf11b3d0479785204b5fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: D Thomas <146stat@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 04:54:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] build: prepare v0.7.4 alpha release

---
 CHANGELOG.md   | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 pyproject.toml |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 CHANGELOG.md

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bfeba38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Changelog
+
+## 0.7.4a0 - 2026-08-02
+
+### Public-alpha acceptance hardening
+
+- Added a reusable wheel-installed public-alpha acceptance gate.
+- Builds QuantumD from tracked source and installs the wheel into an isolated runtime.
+- Confirms the package resolves from `site-packages` rather than an editable checkout.
+- Preserves fail-closed denial when governed execution lacks KMS-signed evidence.
+- Runs the local quickstart under isolated and deliberately poisoned cloud credentials.
+- Requires simulator-only local trust and prohibits hardware authorization.
+- Validates the generated QVERIFY and QEXEC evidence contracts.
+- Independently verifies all cryptographic, workload, circuit, result, shot, and timing bindings.
+- Confirms IBM and KMS are not contacted during offline local verification.
+- Requires local private-key permissions and generated `.gitignore` protection.
+- Requires the acceptance process to leave the repository unchanged.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index feefc84..d15ce79 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "quantumd"
-version = "0.7.3a0"
+version = "0.7.4a0"
 description = "Governed verification, policy enforcement, and evidence-bound execution for quantum software."
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"