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chore: back-merge main into dev (reconcile release version stamps) Absorbs main (previous release) into dev ahead of the next release. All conflicts were VERSION-stamp comments/tags in manifests, SECURITY.md and issue-branch.yml — kept dev's current line. No functional changes. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WbGBN9VyRK61zczYWcCQ2i @