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+# ConfigKit v0.10.2
+
+This patch release fixes edge-case loading failures, resource cleanup, and limit
+accounting, and simplifies ConfigKit's internal loading machinery. Public APIs
+and documented configuration semantics remain unchanged from v0.10.1.
+
+## Fixes
+
+- Terminate pointer-only recursive type traversal safely during decoding and
+  schema-path resolution, preserving nullable values and supported recursive
+  structures. Roll back failed dynamic descriptor construction so subsequent
+  operations do not reuse incomplete state or panic.
+- Accept finite, non-cyclic slice views that share backing storage while
+  retaining cycle detection and detached output.
+- Deactivate resolution, validation, and version-check contexts when callbacks
+  panic, and close library-owned import roots during panic unwinding. The
+  original application panic continues to propagate.
+- Report directory enumeration and close failures instead of treating them as
+  optional absence, including failures reported as not-exist after a successful
+  open. Genuinely missing optional directories retain their existing behavior.
+- Reuse completed symlink dependencies during host and native import discovery,
+  avoiding exponential repeated expansion of finite link graphs while retaining
+  cycle detection and containment checks.
+- Check existing projection budgets before bulk container allocation and account
+  for the complete retained inspection-history graph, including replay and
+  separately copied inheritance evidence.
+- Apply the documented append/upsert sequence requirements to non-sequence
+  contributions at retained collection-policy destinations.
+
+## Internal improvements
+
+- Index collection-policy retirement and prepare sparse incoming policy changes
+  instead of repeatedly scanning or copying unrelated retained policy.
+- Reuse successful dynamic-type eligibility checks within an operation and index
+  tier-history lookups, compound identity restoration, and secret-failure source
+  attribution to avoid repeated scans.
+- Remove unused snapshots, evidence, helpers, fields, and test-only production
+  paths. Clarify acquisition handoffs and separate collection preparation,
+  application, and finalization while sharing sequence-history construction.
+- Separate patterned glob entry preparation from traversal. Consolidate engine
+  import defaults, snapshot them during load preflight, and construct placement
+  directly across the facade while keeping public types root-owned.
+- Add regression coverage for the corrected failures, public historical paths,
+  defaults snapshots, and resource ownership. Strengthen fuzz detachment checks
+  and replace redundant or implementation-coupled assertions.
+- Update release tooling from ReleaseKit v0.4.1 to v0.4.2.
+
+These changes remove redundant work and improve scaling in the identified paths;
+no end-to-end performance improvement has been quantified.
+
+## Compatibility and upgrade
+
+No consumer API or configuration-format migration is required. The
+[configuration contract](../config.md) remains authoritative.
+
+Loads that previously succeeded despite directory acquisition failures, invalid
+append/upsert contributions, or incomplete retained-history accounting may now
+return the documented structured errors. These corrections enforce existing
+requirements and limits rather than introducing new ones.
+
+Select this version and rebuild:
+
+```sh
+go get gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit@v0.10.2
+```
+
+The consumer minimum remains Go 1.26.0. The YAML dependency and platform support
+are unchanged. Publication follows the existing [release procedure](../release.md).
+
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