From ae55d54cb5930078629a984407193c0a3278d101 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Snelling <david@soulcraft.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:41:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] chore(release): 8.0.0-rc.8

---
 CHANGELOG.md      | 6 ++++++
 package-lock.json | 4 ++--
 package.json      | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3a61e627..7863e5cb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 
 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.8](https://github.com/soulcraftlabs/brainy/compare/v8.0.0-rc.7...v8.0.0-rc.8) (2026-06-30)
+
+- docs(8.0): RELEASES.md — rc.8 (no-freeze online whole-brain auto-upgrade) (5af48a9)
+- feat(8.0): no-freeze auto-upgrade hooks — isMigrating() deference + stampBrainFormat() + brain-format export (b6b9198)
+
+
 ### [8.0.0-rc.7](https://github.com/soulcraftlabs/brainy/compare/v8.0.0-rc.6...v8.0.0-rc.7) (2026-06-30)
 
 - docs(8.0): RELEASES.md — rc.7 (cold-graph self-heal + billion-scale RAM + version handshake) (1ddc786)
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 9b01db1c..d61333e6 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-  "version": "8.0.0-rc.7",
+  "version": "8.0.0-rc.8",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-      "version": "8.0.0-rc.7",
+      "version": "8.0.0-rc.8",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "@msgpack/msgpack": "^3.1.2",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index d2fb629f..c52dedbb 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-  "version": "8.0.0-rc.7",
+  "version": "8.0.0-rc.8",
   "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",