From d29cfa09f8f0c320beb90c52d848a1c18927a0ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ramesh Padmanabhaiah <22363102+codeforester@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2026 13:40:42 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Prepare base-cli 0.4.2 release

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 7 +++++++
 README.md    | 2 +-
 VERSION      | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f70604f..13f5942 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ and versions are tracked in the repo-root `VERSION` file.
 
 - Continue compatibility hardening and adoption work for the next release.
 
+## [0.4.2] - 2026-08-08
+
+This is a compatible pre-1.0 patch release. It contains correctness fixes,
+security hardening, documentation improvements, and adoption polish after
+0.4.1; it does not introduce a new API or JSON-contract compatibility
+boundary.
+
 ### Changed
 
 - Apply the profile-resolved display command to ambient production invocation
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 173488e..6520dbd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 | Version | License | Install | Release notes |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| `0.4.1` | [Apache-2.0](LICENSE) | `python -m pip install base-cli` | [v0.4.1](https://github.com/basefoundry/base-cli/releases/tag/v0.4.1) |
+| `0.4.2` | [Apache-2.0](LICENSE) | `python -m pip install base-cli` | [v0.4.2](https://github.com/basefoundry/base-cli/releases/tag/v0.4.2) |
 
 `base-cli` is the PyPI distribution; import it in Python as `base_cli`.
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 267577d..2b7c5ae 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.4.1
+0.4.2