A release bump changes only `[workspace.package] version` in `Cargo.toml` and the lock's entries for the workspace's own crates. The gates' memo counted only docs as unread, so the 0.3.0 bump would have rerun the whole chain on a tree whose parent had just passed it.
No gate reads the version: it reaches only the launchers' `env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION")`, and the build-id tests pass their own strings.
`docs_only_delta` now also keeps the verdict when `Cargo.toml` and `Cargo.lock` differ in nothing but those version lines, compared with each file's workspace versions blanked. Checked on history: the 0.3.0 bump keeps the verdict; a code commit, a dependency version in the lock, a changed edition, and the bump together with its parent's code each rerun.
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