diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
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@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ A `### Breaking` section is used in addition to Keep a Changelog's standard sect
 ### Fixed
 
 - Publish action falls back to `git describe` when `inputs.version` is empty and `GITHUB_REF` is not a tag ref, resolving `workflow_call` input propagation failures in act runner v0.3.0.
+- Do Release smoke validation now expects `--recommend` to fail on tagged release checkouts where `Unreleased` is intentionally empty.
 
 ### Added