diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index de64d359..52db4e5a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. See [standard-version](https://github.com/conventional-changelog/standard-version) for commit guidelines.
 
+### [8.0.0-rc.4](https://github.com/soulcraftlabs/brainy/compare/v8.0.0-rc.3...v8.0.0-rc.4) (2026-06-24)
+
+- docs(8.0): drop the DeletedItemsIndex section + pseudo-code from index-architecture (e7b50cf)
+- fix(8.0): gate native graph analytics on the provider readiness flag (d321cf5)
+- refactor(8.0): remove dead, unreachable, and unwired modules (bf0afe8)
+- build(8.0): clean dist before every build so stale artifacts never ship (03d6540)
+- feat(8.0): #35 part-3 — supply at-gen candidate vectors for the native exact-rerank (c9e2169)
+
+
 ### [8.0.0-rc.3](https://github.com/soulcraftlabs/brainy/compare/v8.0.0-rc.2...v8.0.0-rc.3) (2026-06-23)
 
 - test(8.0): de-flake the VFS path-cache timing assertion (0e8972c)
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index bf8feba9..dcbb3200 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-  "version": "8.0.0-rc.3",
+  "version": "8.0.0-rc.4",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-      "version": "8.0.0-rc.3",
+      "version": "8.0.0-rc.4",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "@msgpack/msgpack": "^3.1.2",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 195d88df..dc703168 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-  "version": "8.0.0-rc.3",
+  "version": "8.0.0-rc.4",
   "description": "Universal Knowledge Protocol™ - World's first Triple Intelligence database unifying vector, graph, and document search in one API. Stage 3 CANONICAL: 42 nouns × 127 verbs covering 96-97% of all human knowledge.",
   "main": "dist/index.js",
   "module": "dist/index.js",