diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8e91a6ad..5ee1e723 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.
 
+### [10.3.0](https://source.soulcraft.com/soulcraft/brainy/compare/v10.2.0...v10.3.0) (2026-08-18)
+
+- docs(releases): the 10.3.0 consumer entry — the trust-and-provenance release (97d75649)
+- fix(locks): the fence keys ownership on pid+hostname — a same-process re-open never fences its predecessor (0991cf28)
+- test(budgets): iron-honest wall-clock budgets — 3x the worst honest-iron measurement (314e0e6c)
+- fix(locks): live writers are never auto-evicted; evicted writers are fenced at every commit barrier (292e7c04)
+- feat(log): system commits carry their origin; the attested per-id reconcile door (9ac9e706)
+
+
 ### [10.2.0](https://source.soulcraft.com/soulcraft/brainy/compare/v10.1.0...v10.2.0) (2026-08-17)
 
 - docs(releases): the 10.2.0 consumer entry — adoption completes in one call (97538e1f)
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index e8c238f5..a5913ac7 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-  "version": "10.2.0",
+  "version": "10.3.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-      "version": "10.2.0",
+      "version": "10.3.0",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "@msgpack/msgpack": "^3.1.2",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index a366f42f..241f23a8 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-  "version": "10.2.0",
+  "version": "10.3.0",
   "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",