diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1f73568..5f2e0b6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Full release notes with details on each version: [GitHub Releases](https://githu
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## 0.8.42 (2026-06-18)
+
 - Fix: large text documents are no longer silently truncated during semantic extraction. `_read_files` capped every file at 20,000 characters, so a Markdown/text/rST document longer than that had everything past the cap dropped — the model never saw it, and the packer/adaptive-retry path couldn't recover ("packing can't shrink one big file"). Oversized splittable-text files are now sliced at heading/paragraph boundaries into units that each fit the cap and together cover the whole file; every slice reports its parent file as `source_file`, so the graph is not fragmented per-slice. A single slice that still overflows the model's output is bisected and retried. Code files and PDFs are never sliced (they keep whole-symbol / page handling). (#1369)
 - Fix: `/graphify --update` no longer deletes a changed file's freshly re-extracted nodes. The `0.8.41` `root=` fix (#1361) made `build_merge`'s prune actually match relative `source_file` values — which then matched the just-re-extracted nodes of *changed* files (still listed in `prune_sources`) and removed them, so an `--update` on a changed file could wipe its nodes. The update runbook now prunes only genuinely **deleted** files; changed files are reconciled by `build_merge`'s replace-on-re-extract (#1344). The full build also now passes `root=` to `build_from_json`, and the extraction-spec `source_file` is pinned to the verbatim path, so the full build and incremental updates never drift on node-key base. (#1366; thanks @RelywOo)
 - Fix: Java `record` declarations are now modeled as first-class type nodes (they share `class_declaration`'s name/body/interfaces fields), and `new Foo(...)` constructor calls now produce a `calls` edge to the constructed type. Previously a record appeared only as its file node (degree 0) with no incoming edges, and body-level `new` usages were dropped because `object_creation_expression` wasn't a recognized call type and its callee lives in the `type` field rather than `name`. (#1373)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9837fca..e7ee858 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "graphifyy"
-version = "0.8.41"
+version = "0.8.42"
 description = "AI coding assistant skill (Claude Code, CodeBuddy, Codex, OpenCode, Kilo Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Aider, OpenClaw, Factory Droid, Trae, Hermes, Kiro, Pi, Devin CLI, Google Antigravity) - turn any folder of code, docs, papers, images, or videos into a queryable knowledge graph"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = { file = "LICENSE" }