diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 182dd955..89f7615c 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.78.0
\ No newline at end of file
+0.78.1
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/releaseNotes.ts b/frontend/src/lib/releaseNotes.ts
index 251bf372..dfcde9c3 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/releaseNotes.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/releaseNotes.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,18 @@ export interface ReleaseEntry {
 }
 
 export const RELEASE_NOTES: ReleaseEntry[] = [
+  {
+    version: "0.78.1",
+    date: "2026-08-30",
+    summary:
+      "A fix for how downloads and uploads are recognised: an audio file with embedded cover art (or a still image) is no longer mistaken for a video, so it gets the right player and the right controls.",
+    fixes: [
+      "A downloaded audio track that carries album art — and some files from sites that report a video stream that isn't really there — were sometimes classified as video, giving a Play button that opened a broken, picture-less player. Siftlode now decides what a finished file actually is by inspecting the file itself, so audio stays audio, images stay files, and only real videos get the video player.",
+    ],
+    chores: [
+      "The media-kind classifier now trusts the on-disk probe over the source site's metadata whenever the probe could read the file, so stale metadata can't resurrect a video track the file doesn't have. Went through multi-agent deep-review, findings fixed and re-reviewed until clean.",
+    ],
+  },
   {
     version: "0.78.0",
     date: "2026-08-30",