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Replace the stale RC1 roadmap and early-access status with the release-candidate position - #30229

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n/a — no Linear ticket; the change records a position the lead developer set while preparing the Prisma 8 public statement.

Summary

The repository still told readers Prisma 8 was in early access and not for production, and it still promised that no shadow database would ever exist. Neither is the current position. This PR deletes the stale RC1 roadmap and states what is true now: Prisma 8 is a release candidate that new projects should start on, and migration preflight is an extension-provided hook rather than a forbidden concept.

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n/a — the only skill touched is the contributor-triage skill, whose grep command dropped the deleted ROADMAP.md. The prisma-8 skill teaches no public surface that changed here.

At a glance

The README's status banner now reads:

Prisma 8 is a release candidate. 8.0.0 final is expected in the next four to eight weeks. Until then a release candidate may include breaking changes, and every release ships with an upgrade recipe that the prisma-8 skill applies for you. The candidate is a complete implementation we stand behind: we treat bugs in it as urgent, and the risk you take on is a feature that is not built yet rather than churn. The feature scoreboard names every gap. New projects should start here. Existing Prisma 7 applications can migrate incrementally, and Prisma 7 stays on the v7 branch with bug fixes for twelve months after 8.0.0 final.

Before, the same banner said Prisma Next was in early access and "we don't recommend it for production workloads yet", and CONTRIBUTING.md said "Don't build production applications on Prisma Next yet".

Decision

This PR ships three things:

  1. ROADMAP.md is deleted. It described the road to 8.0.0-rc.1, was last updated in early August, and had become a list of stale promises. The two facts only it carried, the twelve-month Prisma 7 maintenance window and the pointer to the feature scoreboard, move into the README and CONTRIBUTING.
  2. README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, SECURITY.md, and the two docs/oss/ pages replace their "early access" and "pre-1.0" status wording with the release-candidate position quoted above.
  3. Every statement that "no shadow database will ever exist" is reworded to the current position: the CLI never provisions or replays against a shadow database and diffing stays fully offline, but rehearsing a migration against a fork of a real database is a preflight hook a database extension may provide, surfaced only when the configured extension implements it. Prisma Postgres will provide one.

Reviewer notes

  • The shadow-database claim appeared in eleven places across the CI Integration and Migration System subsystem docs, the migration domain design docs, the ADR index, and the status lines of ADRs 029 and 051. All eleven now say the same thing. The CI Integration section keeps its ## No shadow database heading so the existing #no-shadow-database anchors from four other documents still resolve.
  • ADRs 029 and 051 stay superseded. Their status lines change from "abandoned, never" to "superseded as a core-CLI contract; preflight returns as an extension hook". Their bodies are untouched historical records.
  • docs/oss/versioning.md keeps its "Pre-1.0: deliberately unstable" heading. That section already explains the RC line and its policy is still accurate, so it was left alone.
  • Working documents under projects/ link to the deleted roadmap. They are dated records of finished work and were not rewritten, so those links are now dead by design.
  • The PR title carries no Linear ticket. The branch has none and none was raised for this change.

Testing performed

  • pnpm lint:skills — all skills passed validation.
  • Every relative link introduced by the edit (scorecard.md, skills/prisma-8/upgrading/, ADR 029, ADR 051) was checked to exist on disk.
  • Docs only; no test suites apply.

Checklist

  • All commits are signed off (git commit -s) per the DCO.
  • I read CONTRIBUTING.md and the change is scoped to one logical concern.
  • Tests are updated (n/a — doc-only).
  • The PR title is in TML-NNNN: <sentence-case title> form — no ticket exists for this change.
  • The Skill update section above is filled in.

Alternatives considered

  • Keep ROADMAP.md and mark it historical. Rejected: its own design notes (projects/prisma-8-rc1/design-notes.md) say a hand-curated roadmap "goes stale in weeks; every stale cell reads as a broken promise." Deleting it is the outcome those notes asked for.
  • Change only the CI Integration doc's shadow-database section. Rejected: the same sentence was copied into ten other documents, and fixing one instance would leave the repository contradicting itself.
  • Keep "no shadow database will ever exist" and describe preflight as something other than a shadow database. Rejected: a fork of the production database is exactly what readers mean by the term, and the docs should not depend on a distinction a reader would not draw.

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  • Documentation
    • Updated project, contribution, security, and governance guidance to reflect Prisma 8’s release-candidate status, upgrade path, support policy, and expected final release timeline.
    • Clarified that the CLI performs offline migration validation and does not provision shadow databases; optional preflight behavior may be provided by database extensions.
    • Updated migration, architecture, OSS, and triage documentation to reflect current terminology and references.
    • Removed the outdated roadmap document.

…idate position

Delete ROADMAP.md, which described the road to rc.1 and has gone stale. State the current position in README, CONTRIBUTING, and SECURITY instead: Prisma 8 is a release candidate, 8.0.0 final is expected in four to eight weeks, each release candidate may ship breaking changes with an upgrade recipe, new projects should start on Prisma 8, and Prisma 7 receives bug fixes on the v7 branch for twelve months after final.

Reword the eleven places that claimed no shadow database will ever exist. The CLI never provisions one and diffing stays offline. Rehearsing a migration against a fork of a real database is a preflight hook a database extension may provide, and Prisma Postgres will provide one.

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Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>
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Walkthrough

The documentation now describes Prisma 8 release-candidate status, support, and upgrade guidance. Migration documentation distinguishes offline CLI validation from optional database-extension preflight. The roadmap was removed, and planning references now use the feature scoreboard, ADRs, and repository plans.

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Prisma 8 documentation alignment

Layer / File(s) Summary
Release status and support guidance
CONTRIBUTING.md, README.md, SECURITY.md, docs/oss/*
Release-candidate status, upgrade guidance, breaking-change policy, security support, and Prisma 7 support details now describe Prisma 8.
Migration preflight documentation
docs/architecture docs/*, docs/design/04-inspirations/migrations/*, docs/design/10-domains/migration/*
The documentation states that the CLI performs offline validation and that database extensions may provide preflight against forks of real databases.
Planning reference updates
ROADMAP.md, README.md, docs/oss/pr-triage.md, skills-contrib/triage-contributor-pr/SKILL.md
The roadmap was deleted. Planning and triage references now use the feature scoreboard, ADRs, and repository plans.

Priority: ⬇️ Low — Defer this documentation-only update because it changes release-candidate guidance and migration terminology without affecting product behavior.

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The migration-preflight documentation may still give CI users conflicting guidance about database mutations and extension-based preflight. Clarify the exception before merging to avoid incorrect integration expectations.

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**Non-goals:** sandbox or rehearsal execution of migrations. There is no shadow database (see the next section) and no CI mode that mutates any database other than the deploy target itself.
**Non-goals:** sandbox or rehearsal execution of migrations in the core CLI. The CLI has no shadow database (see the next section) and no CI mode that mutates any database other than the deploy target itself. Rehearsal against a fork of a real database is an extension-provided preflight, described in the next section.

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Scope the no-extra-database guarantee to the core CLI.

Line 13 says that CI has no mode that mutates a database other than the deploy target. Lines 38-40 add extension preflight against a fork of that target. Clarify line 13 or state the extension preflight as an explicit exception.

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In `@docs/architecture` docs/subsystems/8. CI Integration.md at line 13, Clarify
the non-goals statement so the no-extra-database guarantee applies only to the
core CLI, explicitly excluding the extension-provided preflight that may
rehearse migrations against a fork of the deploy target. Keep the existing
extension preflight description consistent in the surrounding CI Integration
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