diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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--- a/CHANGELOG.md
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@@ -1,5 +1,34 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [1.61.0.0] - 2026-07-10
+
+## **Turn “something broke” into a report a maintainer can reproduce and fix.**
+
+The new `/bug-report` skill reconstructs the user's actions from conversation and
+repository evidence, captures narrowly scoped diagnostics, attempts a safe local
+reproduction, and separates confirmed facts from hypotheses. It produces both a
+maintainer-ready issue draft and an honest PR implementation handoff without
+silently editing code or publishing anything.
+
+### Added
+
+- `/bug-report`: evidence-driven timeline reconstruction, environment capture,
+  bounded reproduction attempts, exact steps, regression range, and maintainer
+  verification guidance.
+- Independent exact-byte redaction gates for reports, evidence files, and PR-body
+  drafts, plus visual/OCR review and metadata stripping for screenshots.
+- Router precedence that sends bare broken-behavior requests to `/investigate`,
+  explicit retrospective reporting to `/bug-report`, and proactive web exploration
+  to `/qa-only`.
+- Deterministic coverage for routing, privacy sinks, generated host variants,
+  report-only behavior, and redaction-file lifetime.
+
+### Changed
+
+- The shared redaction documentation resolver supports retaining a scanned temp
+  file until its destination write succeeds, preventing trusted bytes from being
+  deleted and reconstructed before persistence.
+
 ## [1.60.1.0] - 2026-07-09
 
 ## **The /autoplan dual-voice eval is back on the board, catching real regressions.**
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
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--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.60.1.0
+1.61.0.0
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c5168d648..7488799fa 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "gstack",
-  "version": "1.60.1.0",
+  "version": "1.61.0.0",
   "description": "Garry's Stack — Claude Code skills + fast headless browser. One repo, one install, entire AI engineering workflow.",
   "license": "MIT",
   "type": "module",