jrusso1020 · Oct 14, 2026 · Oct 14, 2026
diff --git a/.claude-plugin/plugin.json b/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "hyperframes",
   "description": "HyperFrames by HeyGen. Write HTML, render video. Compositions, GSAP and runtime adapter animations, captions, voiceovers, audio-reactive visuals, and website capture for HyperFrames.",
-  "version": "0.8.155",
+  "version": "0.8.156",
   "author": {
     "name": "HeyGen",
     "email": "hyperframes@heygen.com",

diff --git a/.codex-plugin/plugin.json b/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "hyperframes",
   "description": "Write HTML, render video. Compositions, Tailwind v4 styles, GSAP and runtime adapter animations, captions, voiceovers, audio-reactive visuals, and website capture for HyperFrames.",
-  "version": "0.8.155",
+  "version": "0.8.156",
   "author": {
     "name": "HeyGen",
     "email": "hyperframes@heygen.com",

diff --git a/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json b/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   "name": "hyperframes",
   "displayName": "HyperFrames by HeyGen",
   "description": "Write HTML, render video. Compositions, Tailwind v4 styles, GSAP and runtime adapter animations, captions, voiceovers, audio-reactive visuals, and website capture for HyperFrames.",
-  "version": "0.8.155",
+  "version": "0.8.156",
   "author": {
     "name": "HeyGen",
     "email": "hyperframes@heygen.com"

diff --git a/docs/changelog.mdx b/docs/changelog.mdx
@@ -8,6 +8,31 @@ Recent HyperFrames releases, including user-facing features, fixes, and migratio
 
 {/* New release entries are prepended by `bun run changelog:draft <version> --write`. */}
 
+<Update
+  label="HyperFrames v0.8.156"
+  description="Released - 2026-10-14"
+  tags={["Release", "Engine", "Inspector", "Producer"]}
+>
+Videos from screen recordings no longer freeze partway through on FFmpeg 8. Segmented renders with several workers start faster when media is slow to load, and long audio mixes do less work. `@hyperframes/inspector` no longer ships agent tools, so harnesses define their own.
+
+## Breaking Changes
+
+- **Inspector:** Stop shipping agent tools. Harnesses now define their own ([abe97f6e4c](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/abe97f6e4c704d745dccc4012e7adb2644624c5e), [#5570](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/5570)). `inspect_components`, `query_timeline`, the stdio MCP server and the `componentsTool`, `timelineTool`, `toolContent` and `InspectionTool` exports from `@hyperframes/inspector/live` are gone. The HTTP contract (`POST /inspect`, `/timeline`, `/element-map`) is unchanged, and `InspectRequest` and `TimelineRequest` are now exported so a harness can build its own schema.
+
+## Fixes
+
+- **Engine:** Renders under WSL use the GPU through full Chrome when the headless shell cannot ([9b996059af](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/9b996059af6530636b5a3eff9bdd2f52480f14d8), [#5574](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/5574)). It used to fall back to software rendering.
+- **Producer:** Start segmented render workers together so slow media waits overlap ([d77b03c24c](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/d77b03c24cd2e7c855c602fa8c4546f8076a1dca), [#5573](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/5573)). Each worker used to wait for the one before it to finish loading media.
+- **Engine:** Sample VFR video by timestamp so it does not freeze on FFmpeg 8 ([6afcb48395](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/6afcb48395632b85663b9b9486e1b47fd175f8bc), [#5572](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/5572)). FFmpeg 8 honours frame durations, so screen recordings with long, overlapping frames held one frame and dropped the rest. Cached frames from older versions are re-extracted.
+- **Engine:** Avoid padding every audio mix input ([3de4763d53](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/3de4763d53de194b4ddc4d5d8f724fe0e3b3ca74), [#5563](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/5563)). Short clips no longer stay in the mix for the whole composition, so audio work no longer grows with clip count times length.
+
+## Internal
+
+- **Studio:** Run the edit accuracy slice on PRs and the full grid in the merge queue ([9a2c1c6e80](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/9a2c1c6e80c7f706c39d3a49d6d87dfd8c8814de), [#5566](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/5566)).
+
+[View the full commit range](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/compare/v0.8.155...v0.8.156).
+</Update>
+
 <Update
   label="HyperFrames v0.8.155"
   description="Released - 2026-10-13"

diff --git a/gemini-extension.json b/gemini-extension.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
   "name": "hyperframes",
-  "version": "0.8.155",
+  "version": "0.8.156",
   "description": "HyperFrames by HeyGen. Write HTML, render video. Compositions, GSAP and runtime adapter animations, captions, voiceovers, audio-reactive visuals, and website capture for HyperFrames."
 }
diff --git a/packages/aws-lambda/package.json b/packages/aws-lambda/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/aws-lambda",
-  "version": "0.8.155",
+  "version": "0.8.156",
   "description": "AWS Lambda adapter for HyperFrames distributed rendering — handler, client-side SDK, and CDK construct.",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",

diff --git a/packages/cli/package.json b/packages/cli/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/cli",
-  "version": "0.8.155",
+  "version": "0.8.156",
   "description": "HyperFrames CLI — create, preview, and render HTML video compositions",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "repository": {

diff --git a/packages/core/package.json b/packages/core/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/core",
-  "version": "0.8.155",
+  "version": "0.8.156",
   "description": "",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",

diff --git a/packages/engine/package.json b/packages/engine/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/engine",
-  "version": "0.8.155",
+  "version": "0.8.156",
   "description": "Seekable web page to video rendering engine (Puppeteer + FFmpeg)",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",

diff --git a/packages/gcp-cloud-run/package.json b/packages/gcp-cloud-run/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/gcp-cloud-run",
-  "version": "0.8.155",
+  "version": "0.8.156",
   "description": "Google Cloud Run + Workflows adapter for HyperFrames distributed rendering — request handler, client-side SDK, and Terraform module.",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",

diff --git a/packages/inspector/package.json b/packages/inspector/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/inspector",
-  "version": "0.8.155",
+  "version": "0.8.156",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes",

diff --git a/packages/lint/package.json b/packages/lint/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/lint",
-  "version": "0.8.155",
+  "version": "0.8.156",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes",

diff --git a/packages/parsers/package.json b/packages/parsers/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/parsers",
-  "version": "0.8.155",
+  "version": "0.8.156",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes",

diff --git a/packages/player/package.json b/packages/player/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/player",
-  "version": "0.8.155",
+  "version": "0.8.156",
   "description": "Embeddable web component for HyperFrames compositions",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",

diff --git a/packages/producer/package.json b/packages/producer/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/producer",
-  "version": "0.8.155",
+  "version": "0.8.156",
   "description": "HTML-to-video rendering engine using Chrome's BeginFrame API",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",

diff --git a/packages/sdk/package.json b/packages/sdk/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/sdk",
-  "version": "0.8.155",
+  "version": "0.8.156",
   "description": "Headless, framework-neutral HyperFrames composition editing engine",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",

diff --git a/packages/shader-transitions/package.json b/packages/shader-transitions/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/shader-transitions",
-  "version": "0.8.155",
+  "version": "0.8.156",
   "description": "WebGL shader transitions for HyperFrames compositions",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",

diff --git a/packages/studio-server/package.json b/packages/studio-server/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/studio-server",
-  "version": "0.8.155",
+  "version": "0.8.156",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes",

diff --git a/packages/studio/package.json b/packages/studio/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/studio",
-  "version": "0.8.155",
+  "version": "0.8.156",
   "description": "",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",

diff --git a/plugin.json b/plugin.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "$schema": "https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json",
   "name": "hyperframes",
   "description": "HyperFrames by HeyGen. Write HTML, render video. Compositions, GSAP and runtime adapter animations, captions, voiceovers, audio-reactive visuals, and website capture for HyperFrames.",
-  "version": "0.8.155",
+  "version": "0.8.156",
   "author": {
     "name": "HeyGen",
     "email": "hyperframes@heygen.com",

diff --git a/releases/v0.8.156.md b/releases/v0.8.156.md
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# HyperFrames v0.8.156
+
+Released on 2026-10-14.
+
+Videos from screen recordings no longer freeze partway through on FFmpeg 8. Segmented renders with several workers start faster when media is slow to load, and long audio mixes do less work. `@hyperframes/inspector` no longer ships agent tools, so harnesses define their own.
+
+## Breaking Changes
+
+- **Inspector:** Stop shipping agent tools. Harnesses now define their own ([abe97f6e4c](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/abe97f6e4c704d745dccc4012e7adb2644624c5e), [#5570](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/5570)). `inspect_components`, `query_timeline`, the stdio MCP server and the `componentsTool`, `timelineTool`, `toolContent` and `InspectionTool` exports from `@hyperframes/inspector/live` are gone. The HTTP contract (`POST /inspect`, `/timeline`, `/element-map`) is unchanged, and `InspectRequest` and `TimelineRequest` are now exported so a harness can build its own schema.
+
+## Fixes
+
+- **Engine:** Renders under WSL use the GPU through full Chrome when the headless shell cannot ([9b996059af](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/9b996059af6530636b5a3eff9bdd2f52480f14d8), [#5574](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/5574)). It used to fall back to software rendering.
+- **Producer:** Start segmented render workers together so slow media waits overlap ([d77b03c24c](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/d77b03c24cd2e7c855c602fa8c4546f8076a1dca), [#5573](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/5573)). Each worker used to wait for the one before it to finish loading media.
+- **Engine:** Sample VFR video by timestamp so it does not freeze on FFmpeg 8 ([6afcb48395](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/6afcb48395632b85663b9b9486e1b47fd175f8bc), [#5572](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/5572)). FFmpeg 8 honours frame durations, so screen recordings with long, overlapping frames held one frame and dropped the rest. Cached frames from older versions are re-extracted.
+- **Engine:** Avoid padding every audio mix input ([3de4763d53](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/3de4763d53de194b4ddc4d5d8f724fe0e3b3ca74), [#5563](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/5563)). Short clips no longer stay in the mix for the whole composition, so audio work no longer grows with clip count times length.
+
+## Internal
+
+- **Studio:** Run the edit accuracy slice on PRs and the full grid in the merge queue ([9a2c1c6e80](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/9a2c1c6e80c7f706c39d3a49d6d87dfd8c8814de), [#5566](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/5566)).
+
+## Full changelog
+
+https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/compare/v0.8.155...v0.8.156