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@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Coverage reports and badges published to shared object storage for branches and pull requests.
 - Pull requests now receive coverage report links in CI comments.
 - Manual release preparation workflow and script to bump the reported version, promote unreleased changelog notes, and create release tags.
+- Main branch validation now emits a recommended next release tag based on unreleased changelog sections, and release preparation now rejects empty unreleased notes.
 
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