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## [Unreleased]
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+## [1.43.1] — 2026-09-22
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+### Fixed
+- **Front-end changes could appear to never take effect, no matter how hard the page was reloaded.** `static/index.html` hardcodes `?v=` cache-busting query strings on `style.css`, the per-page CSS files and `loader.js`, plus an `` tag — nothing kept these in sync with `VERSION`, so they had silently drifted to different stale versions each (found live: `style.css` one release behind, `loader.js` sixteen releases behind). The server's static-file middleware marks any CSS/JS request *with* a `?v=` query as `Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000, immutable` — a reasonable rule for genuinely fingerprinted assets, but since these tags never changed, a browser that had ever loaded e.g. `magazine.js?v=1.26.10` kept serving that exact response for a year, regardless of how many times the file changed on disk or how hard the page was force-reloaded. `scripts/release.py` now rewrites every `?v=X.Y.Z` and the `app-version` meta tag to the new version on every release, so a release is what actually invalidates the cache — not a manual, easy-to-forget edit.
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## [1.43.0] — 2026-09-22
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-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/mARTin-B78/tts-voice-creator-clone-and-design-2/compare/v1.26.10...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/mARTin-B78/tts-voice-creator-clone-and-design-2/compare/v1.43.1...HEAD
+[1.43.1]: https://github.com/mARTin-B78/tts-voice-creator-clone-and-design-2/compare/v1.43.0...v1.43.1
[1.26.10]: https://github.com/mARTin-B78/tts-voice-creator-clone-and-design-2/compare/v1.26.9...v1.26.10
[1.26.9]: https://github.com/mARTin-B78/tts-voice-creator-clone-and-design-2/compare/v1.26.8...v1.26.9
[1.26.1]: https://github.com/mARTin-B78/tts-voice-creator-clone-and-design-2/compare/v1.26.0...v1.26.1
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
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