diff --git a/release-manifest.json b/release-manifest.json
index 3b6e5eb1..f41fa971 100644
--- a/release-manifest.json
+++ b/release-manifest.json
@@ -1,32 +1,29 @@
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-    "The TV screen now fits your television. On a large or 4K TV the interface rendered tiny with no way to zoom on a keyboard-less screen; it now sizes itself to a comfortable, readable scale automatically (and small laptop panels are left unchanged).",
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-    "Behind the scenes: fixed the installer image build so it no longer stops on a component that was removed from the product, and so it correctly includes the private relay it was meant to bundle."
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diff --git a/releases/manifest.json b/releases/manifest.json
index 3b6e5eb1..f41fa971 100644
--- a/releases/manifest.json
+++ b/releases/manifest.json
@@ -1,32 +1,29 @@
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-    "Wi-Fi setup now heals itself on older nodes. Some nodes set up before a mid-year fix couldn't connect to a Wi-Fi network from the screen — it failed with a permissions error — because the piece that lets the node manage networking on your behalf was missing. Nodes now put that piece in place automatically on startup, so \"scan, pick a network, type the password, connect\" works without reinstalling.",
-    "Your node rejoins the mesh within seconds after an update. Applying an update briefly restarts the mesh service, and previously a node could sit disconnected from other nodes for up to five minutes before it retried.",
-    "The TV screen now fits your television. On a large or 4K TV the interface rendered tiny with no way to zoom on a keyboard-less screen; it now sizes itself to a comfortable, readable scale automatically (and small laptop panels are left unchanged).",
-    "More TV-screen polish: the built-in assistant shows its dark theme instead of bright white panels, the on-screen hint for switching between the kiosk and a terminal now points at the right keys, the welcome logo no longer occasionally renders as garbled characters, and an accidental tap of the power button no longer shuts the node down — hold it to power off on purpose.",
-    "Behind the scenes: fixed the installer image build so it no longer stops on a component that was removed from the product, and so it correctly includes the private relay it was meant to bundle."
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+    "Your node can now program its MeshCore radio's RF settings — frequency, bandwidth, spreading factor, and coding rate — from Mesh → Device settings. Radios that were flashed with mismatched settings could hear that other radios exist but never decode their messages, and until now the only fix was a separate phone app. Set the values once and the node programs the radio automatically (it restarts once to apply); every radio on your mesh must use the same values to talk to each other.",
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