diff --git a/.claude-plugin/plugin.json b/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
index 87f1dd8e94..4781186a38 100644
--- a/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "hyperframes",
   "description": "HyperFrames by HeyGen. Write HTML, render video. Compositions, GSAP and runtime adapter animations, captions, voiceovers, audio-reactive visuals, and website capture for HyperFrames.",
-  "version": "0.8.196",
+  "version": "0.8.197",
   "author": {
     "name": "HeyGen",
     "email": "hyperframes@heygen.com",
diff --git a/.codex-plugin/plugin.json b/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
index b1c241e127..3bac03990e 100644
--- a/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "hyperframes",
   "description": "Write HTML, render video. Compositions, Tailwind v4 styles, GSAP and runtime adapter animations, captions, voiceovers, audio-reactive visuals, and website capture for HyperFrames.",
-  "version": "0.8.196",
+  "version": "0.8.197",
   "author": {
     "name": "HeyGen",
     "email": "hyperframes@heygen.com",
diff --git a/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json b/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json
index a08b1e9139..7933059afd 100644
--- a/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   "name": "hyperframes",
   "displayName": "HyperFrames by HeyGen",
   "description": "Write HTML, render video. Compositions, Tailwind v4 styles, GSAP and runtime adapter animations, captions, voiceovers, audio-reactive visuals, and website capture for HyperFrames.",
-  "version": "0.8.196",
+  "version": "0.8.197",
   "author": {
     "name": "HeyGen",
     "email": "hyperframes@heygen.com"
diff --git a/docs/changelog.mdx b/docs/changelog.mdx
index 55d3e5a7c8..62b3f147ab 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.mdx
+++ b/docs/changelog.mdx
@@ -8,6 +8,35 @@ Recent HyperFrames releases, including user-facing features, fixes, and migratio
 
 {/* New release entries are prepended by `bun run changelog:draft <version> --write`. */}
 
+<Update
+  label="HyperFrames v0.8.197"
+  description="Released - 2026-10-25"
+  tags={["Release", "Engine", "Sdk", "Lint"]}
+>
+Cloud renders of opaque VP9 video use compressed frames instead of lossless ones, which cuts their cost by about 40 percent. Snapshot reports a clip it cannot read instead of saving a black frame, and Studio frees each closed project's memory.
+
+## Features
+
+- **Lint:** Warn when a round-capped line hidden by its dash settings can still show a dot ([2bff65b0cd13d](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/2bff65b0cd13da6613e8d64e9202a0569ff6cdfa), [#6291](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/6291)).
+
+## Fixes
+
+- **Sdk:** Release the parsed film when a session is disposed ([495dc95acdf73](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/495dc95acdf738f419eb644439ca1e90b94b511e), [#6289](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/6289)).
+- **CLI:** Snapshot fails with the clip and time instead of a silent black frame ([a7273f71478b4](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/a7273f71478b43147faa6c426188ef2383142547), [#6274](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/6274)).
+- **CLI:** A check that is stopped by a signal prints the report it has so far ([1f740ca21a4ab](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/1f740ca21a4ab2e90116ecfcc553e87ed7241062), [#6282](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/6282)).
+
+## Performance
+
+- **Engine:** Vp9 and vp8 sources without an alpha plane extract as jpeg ([382a14d73e7ab](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/382a14d73e7ab5b77f2c118a012338364c4373b8), [#6284](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/6284)).
+- **Core:** Text edits stop rebuilding the preview's caches every frame ([751ca755f21e1](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/751ca755f21e14e9094fdc077f681e4914ca6c3d), [#6276](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/6276)).
+
+## Internal
+
+- Two flaky queue tests no longer race real time or the first copy's start ([4d154c6a237f4](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/4d154c6a237f47d03ba6bd087afce1042620d706), [#6283](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/6283)).
+
+[View the full commit range](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/compare/v0.8.196...v0.8.197).
+</Update>
+
 <Update
   label="HyperFrames v0.8.196"
   description="Released - 2026-10-25"
diff --git a/gemini-extension.json b/gemini-extension.json
index cc73594deb..0ac9f60da0 100644
--- a/gemini-extension.json
+++ b/gemini-extension.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
   "name": "hyperframes",
-  "version": "0.8.196",
+  "version": "0.8.197",
   "description": "HyperFrames by HeyGen. Write HTML, render video. Compositions, GSAP and runtime adapter animations, captions, voiceovers, audio-reactive visuals, and website capture for HyperFrames."
 }
diff --git a/packages/aws-lambda/package.json b/packages/aws-lambda/package.json
index 155d131757..3e08e82a47 100644
--- a/packages/aws-lambda/package.json
+++ b/packages/aws-lambda/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/aws-lambda",
-  "version": "0.8.196",
+  "version": "0.8.197",
   "description": "AWS Lambda adapter for HyperFrames distributed rendering — handler, client-side SDK, and CDK construct.",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/packages/cli/package.json b/packages/cli/package.json
index daf357ec2e..efc583ab14 100644
--- a/packages/cli/package.json
+++ b/packages/cli/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/cli",
-  "version": "0.8.196",
+  "version": "0.8.197",
   "description": "Make videos with code and AI agents: write HTML, render MP4. Open source.",
   "keywords": [
     "ai-agents",
diff --git a/packages/core/package.json b/packages/core/package.json
index 6adb3b464e..348a645f4a 100644
--- a/packages/core/package.json
+++ b/packages/core/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/core",
-  "version": "0.8.196",
+  "version": "0.8.197",
   "description": "",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/packages/engine/package.json b/packages/engine/package.json
index 68ee917878..2e0bfe97e1 100644
--- a/packages/engine/package.json
+++ b/packages/engine/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/engine",
-  "version": "0.8.196",
+  "version": "0.8.197",
   "description": "Seekable web page to video rendering engine (Puppeteer + FFmpeg)",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/packages/gcp-cloud-run/package.json b/packages/gcp-cloud-run/package.json
index c8a3f7800e..0384df2fc8 100644
--- a/packages/gcp-cloud-run/package.json
+++ b/packages/gcp-cloud-run/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/gcp-cloud-run",
-  "version": "0.8.196",
+  "version": "0.8.197",
   "description": "Google Cloud Run + Workflows adapter for HyperFrames distributed rendering — request handler, client-side SDK, and Terraform module.",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/packages/inspector/package.json b/packages/inspector/package.json
index 919158eb65..6f971f2fcf 100644
--- a/packages/inspector/package.json
+++ b/packages/inspector/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/inspector",
-  "version": "0.8.196",
+  "version": "0.8.197",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes",
diff --git a/packages/lint/package.json b/packages/lint/package.json
index 12785183d6..2214ca3e24 100644
--- a/packages/lint/package.json
+++ b/packages/lint/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/lint",
-  "version": "0.8.196",
+  "version": "0.8.197",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes",
diff --git a/packages/parsers/package.json b/packages/parsers/package.json
index d8648a986d..e906feb2b6 100644
--- a/packages/parsers/package.json
+++ b/packages/parsers/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/parsers",
-  "version": "0.8.196",
+  "version": "0.8.197",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes",
diff --git a/packages/player/package.json b/packages/player/package.json
index 7d2aa16528..40d01cc898 100644
--- a/packages/player/package.json
+++ b/packages/player/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/player",
-  "version": "0.8.196",
+  "version": "0.8.197",
   "description": "Embeddable web component for HyperFrames compositions",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/packages/producer/package.json b/packages/producer/package.json
index 4d4dfd6d58..a27b0b094a 100644
--- a/packages/producer/package.json
+++ b/packages/producer/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/producer",
-  "version": "0.8.196",
+  "version": "0.8.197",
   "description": "HTML-to-video rendering engine using Chrome's BeginFrame API",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/packages/sdk/package.json b/packages/sdk/package.json
index 17abb0f0d6..831ae5ae6a 100644
--- a/packages/sdk/package.json
+++ b/packages/sdk/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/sdk",
-  "version": "0.8.196",
+  "version": "0.8.197",
   "description": "Headless, framework-neutral HyperFrames composition editing engine",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/packages/shader-transitions/package.json b/packages/shader-transitions/package.json
index 61386d62c6..22a7186132 100644
--- a/packages/shader-transitions/package.json
+++ b/packages/shader-transitions/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/shader-transitions",
-  "version": "0.8.196",
+  "version": "0.8.197",
   "description": "WebGL shader transitions for HyperFrames compositions",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/packages/studio-server/package.json b/packages/studio-server/package.json
index 8d826cb792..59853e8f63 100644
--- a/packages/studio-server/package.json
+++ b/packages/studio-server/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/studio-server",
-  "version": "0.8.196",
+  "version": "0.8.197",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes",
diff --git a/packages/studio/package.json b/packages/studio/package.json
index 94b717a975..fbd81280b1 100644
--- a/packages/studio/package.json
+++ b/packages/studio/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@hyperframes/studio",
-  "version": "0.8.196",
+  "version": "0.8.197",
   "description": "",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/plugin.json b/plugin.json
index d3e3f10efe..e8f7d7b67b 100644
--- a/plugin.json
+++ b/plugin.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "$schema": "https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json",
   "name": "hyperframes",
   "description": "HyperFrames by HeyGen. Write HTML, render video. Compositions, GSAP and runtime adapter animations, captions, voiceovers, audio-reactive visuals, and website capture for HyperFrames.",
-  "version": "0.8.196",
+  "version": "0.8.197",
   "author": {
     "name": "HeyGen",
     "email": "hyperframes@heygen.com",
diff --git a/releases/v0.8.197.md b/releases/v0.8.197.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5c0e8c3428
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releases/v0.8.197.md
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# HyperFrames v0.8.197
+
+Released on 2026-10-25.
+
+Cloud renders of opaque VP9 video use compressed frames instead of lossless ones, which cuts their cost by about 40 percent. Snapshot reports a clip it cannot read instead of saving a black frame, and Studio frees each closed project's memory.
+
+## Features
+
+- **Lint:** Warn when a round-capped line hidden by its dash settings can still show a dot ([2bff65b0cd13d](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/2bff65b0cd13da6613e8d64e9202a0569ff6cdfa), [#6291](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/6291)).
+
+## Fixes
+
+- **Sdk:** Release the parsed film when a session is disposed ([495dc95acdf73](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/495dc95acdf738f419eb644439ca1e90b94b511e), [#6289](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/6289)).
+- **CLI:** Snapshot fails with the clip and time instead of a silent black frame ([a7273f71478b4](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/a7273f71478b43147faa6c426188ef2383142547), [#6274](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/6274)).
+- **CLI:** A check that is stopped by a signal prints the report it has so far ([1f740ca21a4ab](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/1f740ca21a4ab2e90116ecfcc553e87ed7241062), [#6282](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/6282)).
+
+## Performance
+
+- **Engine:** Vp9 and vp8 sources without an alpha plane extract as jpeg ([382a14d73e7ab](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/382a14d73e7ab5b77f2c118a012338364c4373b8), [#6284](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/6284)).
+- **Core:** Text edits stop rebuilding the preview's caches every frame ([751ca755f21e1](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/751ca755f21e14e9094fdc077f681e4914ca6c3d), [#6276](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/6276)).
+
+## Internal
+
+- Two flaky queue tests no longer race real time or the first copy's start ([4d154c6a237f4](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/commit/4d154c6a237f47d03ba6bd087afce1042620d706), [#6283](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/pull/6283)).
+
+## Full changelog
+
+https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/compare/v0.8.196...v0.8.197