diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d310502f..d0f495ce 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,19 @@
 
 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.
 
+### [7.25.0](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)
+- feat: export provider contracts for the plugin surface brainy consumes (4b6f63e)
+- feat: hook native sort:topK provider into search result ranking (46fc7f2)
+- feat: hook native SQ8 distance provider into HNSW reranking (00d14cf)
+- merge: storage binary-blob primitive across all adapters (e23361c)
+- fix: code-point string collation in LSM SSTable, COW trees/refs, sorted queries (7493d8e)
+- feat(storage): add raw binary-blob primitive to every storage adapter (298b572)
+- fix: deterministic code-point string collation for column store + aggregation (547721a)
+- feat: exact percentile and distinctCount aggregation ops (fe4f5df)
+
+
 ### [7.24.0](https://github.com/soulcraftlabs/brainy/compare/v7.23.0...v7.24.0) (2026-05-26)
 
 - feat: array-unnest groupBy for aggregates + batch-embed entity extraction (c2e21b7)
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index d152d1dd..43bd877c 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-  "version": "7.24.0",
+  "version": "7.25.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-      "version": "7.24.0",
+      "version": "7.25.0",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "@aws-sdk/client-s3": "^3.540.0",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
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--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-  "version": "7.24.0",
+  "version": "7.25.0",
   "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",