diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 97125d1..1b3859a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@ Full release notes with details on each version: [GitHub Releases](https://githu
 
 ## Unreleased
 
-- Fix: generated Claude/agent skill — crash & data-loss bugs in the runbooks (#1392). (1) Semantic chunk files were written under the **scanned dir** (`.graphify_root`) but the merge globs **cwd** `graphify-out/`, so a non-cwd scan produced "no nodes"; chunk paths are now derived from cwd. (2) Code-only corpora skipped Part B but Part C reads `.graphify_semantic.json` unconditionally → `FileNotFoundError`; the fast path now writes an empty semantic file first. (3) `--cluster-only` told the agent to re-run Steps 5–9, which read intermediate files a prior cleanup deleted → `FileNotFoundError`; it now relies on the self-contained `graphify cluster-only` CLI. (4) Step 4's zero-node guard ran *after* `GRAPH_REPORT.md`/`graph.json`/analysis were written, and `GRAPH_REPORT.md` was written before `to_json`'s #479 shrink-guard; the guard now runs before any write and the report/analysis are written only when `to_json` actually persisted the graph.
+## 0.8.44 (2026-06-19)
+
+- Fix: generated Claude/agent skill, crash & data-loss bugs in the runbooks (#1392). (1) Semantic chunk files were written under the **scanned dir** (`.graphify_root`) but the merge globs **cwd** `graphify-out/`, so a non-cwd scan produced "no nodes"; chunk paths are now derived from cwd. (2) Code-only corpora skipped Part B but Part C reads `.graphify_semantic.json` unconditionally, raising `FileNotFoundError`; the fast path now writes an empty semantic file first. (3) `--cluster-only` told the agent to re-run Steps 5-9, which read intermediate files a prior cleanup deleted (`FileNotFoundError`); it now relies on the self-contained `graphify cluster-only` CLI. (4) Step 4's zero-node guard ran *after* `GRAPH_REPORT.md`/`graph.json`/analysis were written, and `GRAPH_REPORT.md` was written before `to_json`'s #479 shrink-guard; the guard now runs before any write and the report/analysis are written only when `to_json` actually persisted the graph.
+- Fix: generated Claude/agent skill, remaining correctness bugs in the runbooks (#1392). `--directed` is now propagated as `directed=IS_DIRECTED` into `build_from_json` (Step 4 + Step 5 rebuild) and `build_merge` (the `--update` merge + diff), so a `--directed` (and `--directed --update`) run no longer silently rebuilds undirected and collapses reciprocal A<->B edges. Semantic extraction flattens only `document`/`paper`/`image` (code is already covered structurally by the AST pass) so subagents stop re-reading every source file. `.graphify_cached.json` is deleted on a cache miss so Part C never merges a stale cache from a prior run. `--update` now transcribes changed video files and moves the transcripts into documents before the semantic pipeline. Transcription writes via `write_text` (no shell redirect), honours `GRAPHIFY_WHISPER_MODEL`/`GRAPHIFY_WHISPER_PROMPT`, and prints status to stderr. `add-watch` and `exports` use the resolved interpreter explicitly, and the MCP Desktop config documents the absolute interpreter path. Extraction-spec example id is namespaced; query term split keeps tokens of 3+ chars.
+- Fix: the semantic extract entry points no longer crash on `FileSlice` units. The 0.8.43 `#1386` fix coerced every item with `[Path(f) for f in files]`, which raised `TypeError` on the `FileSlice` objects produced by the oversized-text slicing path (#1369), so a corpus containing a document large enough to be sliced crashed on extract. Items are now coerced only when they are not already a `Path` or `FileSlice` (#1397, #1399).
 
 ## 0.8.43 (2026-06-19)
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5e889ef..3331722 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "graphifyy"
-version = "0.8.43"
+version = "0.8.44"
 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" }