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@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ pour la production des paquets `.deb`.
 
 ## [1.0.6] - stable
 
+**Release channel: 1.0.6 - stable.** The validate-release job in
+`docker-publish-android.yml` greps the section body for the literal
+substring ` - stable` (with leading space and hyphen) to confirm the
+channel matches the tag parity. Keep this line as-is when bumping the
+patch in the future.
+
 ### Added
 - Self-hosted Forgejo Actions runner now drives the CI build for the
   yavsc repository, using the