The headline change of this window: batteries outside the Art. 77(1) passport mandate (SLI, portable, industrial ≤2 kWh) get a proper voluntary passport experience, with the wizard, gate, certificates and public badge all telling one consistent story.
GS1 identifier integrity lands end to end: serial and batch identifiers are capped at entry to the length the resolver enforces, and registering a GS1 prefix becomes required to publish on every plan.
A closure release: the self-signup onboarding blocker is fixed, all write paths share one validation authority, and the remaining EU-guidance datapoint gaps are closed on the LMT, Industrial and Stationary templates.
A large alignment release: the battery templates are corrected against the European Commission's data-points guidance (including suspending carbon-footprint blocking for EV), GTINs gain integrity guarantees, printed customer QR codes are respected, and the registry submission loop closes end to end.
A small correctness release for the public passport's restricted-access labelling and the editor's warning noise.
A broad quality release: the public passport stops making claims it should not, data imports validate what they accept, and a set of security hardenings lands across uploads, resets and public routes.
The publish gate and the DPP editor now follow the EU Battery Regulation's own timeline: an obligation that the Regulation does not bring into force until 2027 or 2028 no longer blocks publication today, and the editor says so on the field itself. This release also adds an EU Digital Product Passport Registry readiness hub, a compliance deadline tracker, and EU AI Act Article 50 transparency on the public passport.