Add gitleaks fingerprint for test file false positive

Add needs: [integration_test_stage, changelog] to release job override.
This ensures the tag (which triggers prod deploy) is only created after
stage integration tests pass, preventing race conditions between pipelines.

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -197,10 +197,20 @@ release:
       PYTEST_SCRIPT
 
 # Integration tests for stage deployment (full suite)
-# Reset stage template - shared by pre and post test reset jobs
+integration_test_stage:
+  <<: *integration_test_template
+  needs: [deploy_stage]
+  variables:
+    ORCHARD_TEST_URL: $STAGE_URL
+  rules:
+    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == "main"'
+      when: on_success
+
+# Reset stage environment after integration tests (clean slate for next run)
 # Calls the /api/v1/admin/factory-reset endpoint which handles DB and S3 cleanup
-.reset_stage_template: &reset_stage_template
+reset_stage:
   stage: deploy
+  needs: [integration_test_stage]
   image: deps.global.bsf.tools/docker/python:3.12-slim
   timeout: 5m
   retry: 1  # Retry once on transient failures
@@ -274,26 +284,6 @@ release:
   rules:
     - if: '$CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == "main"'
       when: on_success
-
-# Reset stage BEFORE integration tests (ensure known state)
-reset_stage_pre:
-  <<: *reset_stage_template
-  needs: [deploy_stage]
-
-# Integration tests for stage deployment (full suite)
-integration_test_stage:
-  <<: *integration_test_template
-  needs: [reset_stage_pre]
-  variables:
-    ORCHARD_TEST_URL: $STAGE_URL
-  rules:
-    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == "main"'
-      when: on_success
-
-# Reset stage AFTER integration tests (clean slate for next run)
-reset_stage:
-  <<: *reset_stage_template
-  needs: [integration_test_stage]
   allow_failure: true  # Don't fail pipeline if reset has issues
 
 # Integration tests for feature deployment (full suite)

.gitleaks.toml

@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-# Gitleaks configuration
-# https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks#configuration
-
-[allowlist]
-# Test files that contain variable names matching secret patterns (e.g., s3_key)
-paths = [
-  '''backend/tests/.*\.py''',
-]

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -8,11 +8,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ## [Unreleased]
 ### Changed
 - Simplified tag pipeline to only run deploy and smoke tests (image already built on main) (#54)
-- Added pre-test stage reset to ensure known environment state before integration tests (#54)
 
 ### Fixed
 - Fixed production CI deployment namespace to use correct `orch-namespace` (#54)
-- Added gitleaks config to allowlist test files from secret scanning (#54)
 
 ## [0.5.0] - 2026-01-23
 ### Added