diff --git a/docs/changelog.mdx b/docs/changelog.mdx
index 5e5770e7b6..09290a516a 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.mdx
+++ b/docs/changelog.mdx
@@ -2897,7 +2897,7 @@ BeginFrame timing.
 <Update
   label="HyperFrames v0.7.92"
   description="Released - 2026-08-04"
-  tags={["Release", "Release", "Studio", "Core"]}
+  tags={["Release", "Studio", "Core"]}
 >
 Percentage-based canary rollouts land, so a change can ship to a stable slice of
 installs instead of all-or-nothing — decided locally and offline, with two inert
@@ -4218,7 +4218,7 @@ HyperFrames now uses a 0–10 recommendation scale for feedback, keeps canvas z-
 <Update
   label="HyperFrames v0.7.57"
   description="Released - 2026-07-14"
-  tags={["Release", "Producer", "Release", "CLI"]}
+  tags={["Release", "Producer", "CLI"]}
 >
 `hyperframes publish` now returns a stable public URL: re-publishing updates the same link in place, and a `--space` flag plus a committable project file let a whole team publish to one shared URL. This release also keeps preview review sessions alive across reloads and tags HeyGen API calls with an `X-HeyGen-Client-Source` header.
 
@@ -6054,7 +6054,7 @@ Adds slideshow support end-to-end: a player-side controller state machine and `<
 <Update
   label="HyperFrames v0.6.113"
   description="Released - 2026-06-19"
-  tags={["Release", "Release", "Core", "Sdk"]}
+  tags={["Release", "Core", "Sdk"]}
 >
 Brings the AI Studio (Pacific) SDK integration surface online — object-valued font/image variables, elastic timing with word-alignment, element insertion, and keyframe animation ops — all on the acorn GSAP writer, now gated behind the cutover flag with recast kept as the default. Also adds a slideshow schema/parser/lint rule and phase-1 image-alpha hit-testing, so clicks on transparent image pixels fall through to the layer behind.
 
@@ -6815,7 +6815,7 @@ Completes the playbackRate fix across all media duration resolution sites — vi
 <Update
   label="HyperFrames v0.6.83"
   description="Released - 2026-06-09"
-  tags={["Release", "Core", "Producer", "Release"]}
+  tags={["Release", "Core", "Producer"]}
 >
 Fixes media elements with custom playback rates being clipped to the raw source duration instead of the rate-adjusted timeline duration. Also adds a release tag monotonicity guard.
 
diff --git a/scripts/draft-changelog.test.ts b/scripts/draft-changelog.test.ts
index df3227bb8f..50d62ae102 100644
--- a/scripts/draft-changelog.test.ts
+++ b/scripts/draft-changelog.test.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import {
   parseCommit,
   renderCommitBullet,
   renderMdxCommitBullet,
+  renderTags,
   shouldSkipCommit,
   type RawCommit,
 } from "./draft-changelog.ts";
@@ -149,3 +150,25 @@ describe("skipped release tags", () => {
     assert.deepEqual(findSkippedReleaseTags(TAGS, "0.8.50", "0.8.52"), ["0.8.51"]);
   });
 });
+
+describe("release tags", () => {
+  it("names Release once, even when a commit is scoped to the release itself", () => {
+    const commits = [
+      "fix(studio-server): inject page tags (#1)",
+      "docs(release): list the changes v1.2.3 also shipped (#2)",
+      "fix(core): wait for a loading video (#3)",
+      "fix(studio): open at Fit (#4)",
+    ].map((subject) => parseCommit(commit(subject)));
+
+    assert.deepEqual(renderTags(commits), ["Release", "Studio Server", "Core", "Studio"]);
+  });
+
+  it("names Release once whatever the case of the release scope", () => {
+    const commits = [
+      "chore(RELEASE): cut v1.2.3 (#5)",
+      "fix(core): wait for a loading video (#6)",
+    ].map((subject) => parseCommit(commit(subject)));
+
+    assert.deepEqual(renderTags(commits), ["Release", "Core"]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/scripts/draft-changelog.ts b/scripts/draft-changelog.ts
index b30988a58c..e8fb84bf63 100644
--- a/scripts/draft-changelog.ts
+++ b/scripts/draft-changelog.ts
@@ -447,8 +447,13 @@ export function renderMdxCommitBullet(commit: ParsedCommit) {
   return `- ${scope}${escapeForMdx(capitalize(commit.summary))} (${links.join(", ")}).`;
 }
 
-function renderTags(commits: ParsedCommit[]) {
-  return ["Release", ...uniqueScopeTags(commits).slice(0, 3)];
+export function renderTags(commits: ParsedCommit[]) {
+  return [
+    "Release",
+    ...uniqueScopeTags(commits)
+      .filter((tag) => tag.toLowerCase() !== "release")
+      .slice(0, 3),
+  ];
 }
 
 function uniqueScopeTags(commits: ParsedCommit[]) {