diff --git a/docs/releases/v0.6.0.md b/docs/releases/v0.6.0.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c5bd7d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/releases/v0.6.0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# jpdev v0.6.0
+
+Seven rows of the milestone, in four pull requests (#24, #25, #26, #28): the kit stops costing a build a run for things the repository already knows, and a review becomes one command.
+
+## What it holds
+
+- **CI after an automated branch update** (#22, pull request #24). `templates/update-branches.yml` prefers an `UPDATE_BRANCHES_TOKEN` secret and falls back to `GITHUB_TOKEN`; on the fallback it waits for the updated head and dispatches `ci.yml` with the pull-request number and the head's SHA, so the required `check` and `handover` jobs run on that head. A fork's head is never dispatched: the run says so and fails visibly. A dispatch failure propagates; it is never mistaken for a merge conflict.
+- **The vendored handover check** (#21, pull request #24). `lib/handover_check.sh` is vendored as `scripts/dev/handover_check.sh` with the kit's version line; the CI template calls that path; tests and the release gate hold both vendored scripts to their sources.
+- **The declared venv** (#23, pull request #25). `jpdev setup` and `jpdev check` create the virtual environment `dev.json` names when it is missing, resolving the interpreter from the PATH or a pyenv version directory, else refusing with the version named; the path is validated as a relative child of the clone; every Python step runs with the venv first on its PATH and its summary names the interpreter.
+- **`jpdev codex review`** (#13, pull request #25). A read-only Codex run from a review brief with the model, effort and sandbox explicit, no network unless `--network` is passed and logged, the record written to a file, the reviewed SHA printed, a refusal if the clone changed; `jpdev codex brief-template --review` prints the review skeleton with its two result lines.
+- **Brief words inside backticks** (#12, pull request #26). `check-brief` treats text inside paired backticks as an identifier, path or command; a bare word is still refused with the same suggestion; unbalanced backticks exempt nothing; the product's own term left the list.
+- **`codex run --add` of a directory** (#16, pull request #26). Every eligible file below the directory is committed; the handover files at any depth, ignored files and caches are left out; a directory with nothing to add is refused by name.
+- **Retained check logs** (#8, pull request #28). Each step's output is kept under the scratch directory's `logs/`; when the log cannot be written the check still runs, its result is reported with the persistence failure named beside it, and the exit status stays the check's.
+- **Repository notes in briefs** (#27, pull request #28). `dev.json` admits a `notes` list of plain sentences; `brief-template` prints them under `## This repository's notes`; `check-brief --build` requires that heading when the manifest has notes.
+
+## What it does not hold
+
+Running Codex itself in GitHub Actions; a second storage kind for anything; the re-vendor of adopting repositories, which follows this release as its own rows, the specification's first. The update template's fallback dispatch needs `workflow_dispatch` on the adopting repository's CI workflow, which the re-vendor brings.
diff --git a/lib/common.sh b/lib/common.sh
index 6414861..6faf940 100644
--- a/lib/common.sh
+++ b/lib/common.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Sourced by bin/jpdev and lib/wrap.sh. Needs bash 5.
 
 # shellcheck disable=SC2034  # read by bin/jpdev
-JPDEV_VERSION=0.5.0
+JPDEV_VERSION=0.6.0
 
 # Every setting jpdev reads. The environment wins over the config file, the config file over the default.
 JPDEV_SETTINGS=(JPDEV_SCRATCH JPDEV_LOCK JPDEV_NODE_RSS_MB JPDEV_NODE_TIMEOUT_S JPDEV_GO_ULIMIT_KB
diff --git a/scripts/dev/check.sh b/scripts/dev/check.sh
index fcdd251..e85cc40 100755
--- a/scripts/dev/check.sh
+++ b/scripts/dev/check.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# from judgment-pack-devkit v0.5.0 (templates/check.sh)
+# from judgment-pack-devkit v0.6.0 (templates/check.sh)
 # scripts/dev/check.sh [--setup] [--only a,b] [--skip a,b] [--all] [--manifest FILE]
 # Runs the checks of dev.json in order and prints one summary block; exit status = failures.
 # Stops at the first failure unless --all. --setup runs the manifest's setup steps instead.
diff --git a/scripts/dev/handover_check.sh b/scripts/dev/handover_check.sh
index 41fa9aa..b5fe18a 100755
--- a/scripts/dev/handover_check.sh
+++ b/scripts/dev/handover_check.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# from judgment-pack-devkit v0.5.0 (lib/handover_check.sh)
+# from judgment-pack-devkit v0.6.0 (lib/handover_check.sh)
 set -eu
 
 python3 - <<'PY'
diff --git a/templates/check.sh b/templates/check.sh
index fcdd251..e85cc40 100755
--- a/templates/check.sh
+++ b/templates/check.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# from judgment-pack-devkit v0.5.0 (templates/check.sh)
+# from judgment-pack-devkit v0.6.0 (templates/check.sh)
 # scripts/dev/check.sh [--setup] [--only a,b] [--skip a,b] [--all] [--manifest FILE]
 # Runs the checks of dev.json in order and prints one summary block; exit status = failures.
 # Stops at the first failure unless --all. --setup runs the manifest's setup steps instead.