The RELEASE_NOTES_BACKLOG gate for cutting the next release, closed out:
- Eight sections backfilled to the curated standard, from the Settings
What's New blocks, the old-lineage release commits, and the hotfix
diffs: v1.7.44 (was four raw commit-hash lines), v1.7.47/48/64/65
(thin), and v1.7.50/51/107 (real tagged releases whose sections were
missing entirely — v1.7.107 restored verbatim from the curated copy
at 35e9c624 that later went missing).
- Mechanical inventory across all 92 sections in range: every section
now has ≥3 curated bullets, zero raw-hash entries.
- What's New modal regenerated for the three restored versions
(sync-whats-new --check passes, 92 versions present).
- Manifest-notes-only confirmed by construction: the manifest reads its
changelog from CHANGELOG.md and check-release-manifest.sh rejects raw
or thin entries before publishing.
Evidence trail for the backfills is recorded in
docs/RELEASE_NOTES_BACKLOG.md.
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