Before publishing a new release, you MUST check all of the following:

• Run integration tests to verify provider functionality: composer test:integration
• Ensure there is no n.e.x.t usage in any PHP file.
  • If there is, replace these n.e.x.t strings with the new release's version number.
• Ensure the WordPress\AiClient\AiClient VERSION constant is set to the new release's version number.

Note: In the future we may provide CI and tooling for this, but for now this needs to be manually verified.