chore(release): 10.4.2-rc.1

CHANGELOG.md

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 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.
 
+### [10.4.2-rc.1](https://source.soulcraft.com/soulcraft/brainy/compare/v10.4.1...v10.4.2-rc.1) (2026-08-27)
+
+- Merge branch 'next/zero-norm-unvector-door' (9b84ef5b)
+- fix(vectors): a zero-norm vector is not a vector, canonical side included, plus the sanctioned unvector door (0de76659)
+- fix(hnsw): skip unvectored rows on rebuild; refuse empty vectors in the index (8fc553b1)
+- fix(storage): derive the canonical count ledger from identity records, stamp the derivation rule, and mark legacy-derived ledgers suspect at load (fd6b4ce4)
+- Merge branch 'next/enumeration-identity-rekey' (204d74c1)
+- fix(storage): enumeration re-keys on the identity record, not the vector leg (f8d8ce16)
+- fix(init): rethrow plugin activation failures with the original error as cause so the originating frame survives to the caller (2496e09a)
+- Merge branch 'next/vfs-root-zero-norm' (4c7b0fab)
+- fix(vfs): the VFS root never persists a zero-norm vector (c6cc0de9)
+- build: derive generated-file stamps from git commit time, not wall clock (8a5c1245)
+- Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/release/10.4.1' (aad9e2ee)
+- docs(concepts): the serving law — a failure is graded by whether an answer could be wrong, never by the cost of the fix; reads refuse per family (2914e0eb)
+- chore(release): 10.4.1-rc.1 (7870dc40)
+
+
 ### [10.4.1](https://source.soulcraft.com/soulcraft/brainy/compare/v10.4.0...v10.4.1) (2026-08-26)
 
 - fix(reads): the read gate is per-family; a write carrying unchanged data never re-embeds (c039411e)

package-lock.json

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 {
   "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-  "version": "10.4.1",
+  "version": "10.4.2-rc.1",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-      "version": "10.4.1",
+      "version": "10.4.2-rc.1",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "@msgpack/msgpack": "^3.1.2",

package.json

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 {
   "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-  "version": "10.4.1",
+  "version": "10.4.2-rc.1",
   "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",