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+# rig 0.3.1 — release drill
+
+**WAIVED. No real-hardware drill was run for this release.**
+
+The maintainer (@danmt) directed “Add a waiver as the drill” on
+2026-07-25 at 09:02Z:
+https://github.com/heavy-duty/rig/pull/145#issuecomment-5077845754
+
+The real-hardware run requested in discussion #132 was not performed. At the
+time of the ruling, the harness and procedure (`drill/drill.sh` and
+`drill/README.md`) were available on `main`, unlike for the 0.3.0 release.
+The ruling gave no reason for the waiver.