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+## v10.2.0 — 2026-08-17 (adoption completes in one call)
+
+One fix, headline-sized for large stores. Pairs with the same native accelerator
+version as 10.1.0 — no accelerator bump needed.
+
+- **The adoption backfill runs to completion.** Adopting the crash-safe storage
+  authority first re-commits every row the log never saw (a one-time baseline
+  backfill). That backfill had a fixed ceiling of 800 rows per
+  `adoptLogAuthority()` call — sized for small drift, not for a large pre-existing
+  store — so a store with a 12,700-row baseline advanced 800 rows per call and
+  stayed on the prior authority across restarts (a production deployment's
+  report). Now one call adopts a baseline of any size: the backfill sees the
+  entire curable set at once, cures all of it, and loops only until green — the
+  no-progress guard is the sole stop. Pace rides the write path (~100 rows/s
+  measured end to end, versus ~1.7 rows/s under the old page-per-scan shape),
+  and progress is narrated so an operator watching a live service sees motion.
+  Stores that already adopted are unaffected; stores still on the prior authority
+  flip in a single call on their next open or on an explicit
+  `adoptLogAuthority()`.
+- Verification report unchanged on the wire (still lists at most 200 mismatches;
+  counts remain complete) — only the adoption path reads the full set.
+
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+
 ## v10.1.0 — 2026-08-13 (the bounded-recovery and write-path-cure release)
 
 The theme: **crash recovery is bounded, restores are durably founded, and two