[aoirint]

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Summary

Release v0.5.0 after the upstream and dependency update. Set VERSION to 0.5.0 and promote the complete Unreleased changelog to the October 24, 2026 UTC release entry.

The existing main workflow owns the immutable tag, GitHub Release, and Docker Hub/GHCR version/latest image publication. This is a minor release because it changes the bundled application and runtime dependency surface.

Testing

• Passed: source update PR checks and local final-image build, dependency audit, and GPU/application smoke tests recorded in the linked update PR.
• Passed: git diff --check; the proposed v0.5.0 tag is absent locally and remotely.
• Passed: integrated main workflow, including published-image release tests and release PR checks.
• Verified: Docker Hub and GHCR edge tags both resolve to sha256:67eb9ce02b7b6468ed8f9dbaa5ab0cc6bc91997deb48f447651e99142816bf33 and source commit 146223d.

AI-assisted inspections

• Request: verify release identity, changelog promotion, and existing publication behavior.
  • AI-assisted result: only VERSION and CHANGELOG.md change; runtime build inputs match the verified update.

Proposed merge attribution

• Primary author: aoirint (GitHub user ID: 27213639), the requesting maintainer and PR creator.
• Included: Co-authored-by: Codex noreply@openai.com