Release v3.8.41 — 52 commits since v3.8.40 (19 CHANGELOG bullets, 11 contributors). All gating CI green: Unit×8, Coverage×8, Vitest, Package Artifact, Quality Ratchet, CodeQL, Lint, Docs Sync (Strict), Node 24/26 compat, E2E×9, Integration, Electron smoke. Advisory checks overridden (main unprotected): PR Test Policy = test-masking heuristic on the cumulative 52-commit assert delta (legitimate dead-code-sweep removals + consolidations, reviewed per-PR); SonarCloud/SonarQube = new-code maintainability/coverage quality gate (CodeQL/Semgrep/Security/npm-audit/Dependabot all clean — not a security finding).
Integrated into release/v3.8.8. Applied review fixes: moved the SELECT 1 into a pingDb() db helper (no raw SQL in route, Hard Rule #5) + the 503 catch no longer leaks err.message (Hard Rule #12). Thanks @herjarsa!
