release: 2026-07-17.194640

[Li-Sanze]

Summary

• Promote the completed entry-preflight changes from CHANGELOG.md [Unreleased] into release 2026-07-17.194640.
• Synchronize the bilingual README badges and host template SOPIFY_VERSION headers.
• Regenerate the release-managed golden snapshots for the new version.

Validation

• Release preflight passed before and after the version bump.
• Version consistency passed for 2026-07-17.194640.
• 24 golden snapshot checks passed.
• 81 hard-gate tests passed.
• New-plan, continuation, clarification, decision, and finalize protocol smoke checks passed.
• Install/payload bootstrap smoke passed with bundle version 2026-07-17.194640.

Release follow-up

After merge and successful main CI, render the stable install.sh and install.ps1 assets for this tag, create the GitHub Release from main, upload both assets, and run the latest-installer smoke.