chore: sync main to dev after v1.0.37 notes fix

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chore: sync main to dev after v1.0.37 notes fix

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Delivered by PR #497 (merged into dev 2026-09-02, Closes #496). Auto-close did not fire because the merge target was dev, not the default branch. Note: main currently leads dev by 4 release-side commits (v1.0.39 promotion via PR #518); dev is fully contained in main.