v3.8.40 cycle integration → main. All test gates green (Unit/Integration/Coverage/Node-compat/Quality-Ratchet). The only red check, 'PR Test Policy', is the test-masking heuristic firing on the cumulative ~57-commit release diff (legitimate assert consolidations already reviewed per-PR — Gemini CLI removal #5246, retired GPT models #5280, provider catalog refreshes); overridden with --admin per the documented release-PR convention. CodeQL/SonarQube advisory scans non-blocking; #5278's code already passed CodeQL on main. Homologated on VPS 192.168.0.15 (v3.8.40 healthy).
Release v3.8.33 — full CHANGELOG in the PR body. Blocking gates green (Build, Lint, Unit Tests 8/8, Package Artifact, Quality Gates, Quality Ratchet, Docs Sync, PR Test Policy, test-vitest). Admin-merged over a Node 26 future-compat timer flake (1/4) + an E2E UI flake (3/9) — both verified non-deterministic; full test:unit validated locally (16936 pass).
