From d30eb6f39f348ff08377ce1afb1f3d6475f62af1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Snelling <david@soulcraft.com>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 10:38:18 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] chore(release): 7.26.0

---
 CHANGELOG.md      | 8 ++++++++
 package-lock.json | 4 ++--
 package.json      | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d0f495ce..955ef69d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,14 @@
 
 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.
 
+### [7.26.0](https://github.com/soulcraftlabs/brainy/compare/v7.25.0...v7.26.0) (2026-05-28)
+
+- feat: graph link compression — delta-varint connections (2.4.0 #3) (617c156)
+- feat: column-store JS↔native interchange — raw-blob unify (2.4.0 #4) (71bc30b)
+- feat: mmap-vector backend wiring — HNSWIndex consumes vectorStore:mmap (2.4.0 #2) (d4cb26c)
+- feat: stable EntityIdMapper — rebuild() no longer renumbers UUID→int (b2408cb)
+
+
 ### [7.25.0](https://github.com/soulcraftlabs/brainy/compare/v7.24.0...v7.25.0) (2026-05-27)
 
 - docs: remove stale distanceSQ8 JSDoc left by the SQ8 hook refactor (6099101)
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 43bd877c..5ffa1edf 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-  "version": "7.25.0",
+  "version": "7.26.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-      "version": "7.25.0",
+      "version": "7.26.0",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "@aws-sdk/client-s3": "^3.540.0",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 7a071960..f616da89 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-  "version": "7.25.0",
+  "version": "7.26.0",
   "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",