July 2025 Monthly Summary for iTwin/itwinjs-core: Delivered release governance enhancements to reduce risk and increase release quality. Key deliverables include a new CI Release Validation workflow that parses commit notes for SHOULD_PUBLISH and DEPRECATION_COMMENT_CHANGES, a manual validation gate for deprecation comment changes before release, and updates to the version bump script to enforce these checks. Major bugs fixed: none reported this month. Overall impact: tighter release controls, improved auditability, and clearer deprecation management, enabling safer, more predictable releases. Technologies/skills demonstrated: CI/CD automation, release tooling, commit-note parsing, lint integration, and versioning workflow improvements.