diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9dc2306..2585a78 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## 1.0.6 - 2026-11-08
+
 - Refresh the benchmark evidence against the released v1.0.5 source, with
   repeated SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL scenarios, a cart/outbox workload,
   state-size measurements, retained per-operation latency data, and source and
diff --git a/docs/benchmarks.md b/docs/benchmarks.md
index 2a4a845..4550fd0 100644
--- a/docs/benchmarks.md
+++ b/docs/benchmarks.md
@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@ The current dataset runs the released `v1.0.5` source at commit
 `8975f6e2ad94c114f3638cea8f167956061a9bc3`. The runtime source is unchanged; the measurement harness
 is overlaid from this repository. Every JSON report records that source revision, runtime source and
 built-artifact SHA-256 values, harness SHA-256, the loaded package version, actual driver versions,
-database version, host, and Node version. A package version alone is insufficient: current `main`
-also reports 1.0.5 but contains unreleased SQLite WAL changes.
+database version, host, and Node version. At collection time, the development branch also reported
+1.0.5 but contained SQLite WAL changes absent from the release tag. Use the recorded source and
+artifact hashes to reproduce the measured 1.0.5 implementation. Version 1.0.6 includes the later
+SQLite WAL changes.
 
 The archived reports were collected with harness revision
 `da5fe31b1ffa18eca92ce43fc26bca619d424d6e`. They verified committed operation
@@ -104,7 +106,7 @@ dataset.
 
 ### Reproduce the released runtime
 
-Use a separate checkout so unreleased runtime changes cannot enter the result. Install the locked
+Use a separate checkout so later runtime changes cannot enter the result. Install the locked
 dependencies and overlay the measurement harness from the commit containing this dataset before
 building the runtime:
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 330b693..5eaf033 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "solid-objects",
-  "version": "1.0.5",
+  "version": "1.0.6",
   "description": "Fix race conditions across Node.js processes: ordered operations, expiring holds, and state that survives a restart, in your SQL database. A SQL-backed virtual actor library for TypeScript and Node.js.",
   "type": "module",
   "license": "MIT",
diff --git a/src/version.ts b/src/version.ts
index 328b2e8..4f08994 100644
--- a/src/version.ts
+++ b/src/version.ts
@@ -1 +1 @@
-export const VERSION = "1.0.5"
+export const VERSION = "1.0.6"