diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 12f437d..3730b64 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ easy to spot when bumping.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [8.4.3] - 2026-10-02
+
 ### Fixed
 
 - **genre-tree**: `useListFullGenrePlaylists` fetches the remaining pages at most 4 at a time instead of all in parallel. The canonical tree's 17 concurrent requests OOM-killed grow-front's proxy container and returned 502s.
diff --git a/packages/app-kit/package.json b/packages/app-kit/package.json
index d295b40..199c5ae 100644
--- a/packages/app-kit/package.json
+++ b/packages/app-kit/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@behindthemusictree/app-kit",
-  "version": "8.4.2",
+  "version": "8.4.3",
   "description": "Shared transport, auth, popup, UI, player, and genre-tree plumbing for BehindTheMusicTree React apps",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",