diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8a5a312b..7bf654ae 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.0.50](https://github.com/ScriptedAlchemy/tracedecay/compare/v0.0.49...v0.0.50) - 2026-07-10
+
+### Fixed
+
+- *(storage)* preserve divergent session variants
+
 ## [0.0.49](https://github.com/ScriptedAlchemy/tracedecay/compare/v0.0.48...v0.0.49) - 2026-07-10
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index c302ec05..9c3dc837 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4856,7 +4856,7 @@ checksum = "8df9b6e13f2d32c91b9bd719c00d1958837bc7dec474d94952798cc8e69eeec3"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tracedecay"
-version = "0.0.49"
+version = "0.0.50"
 dependencies = [
  "amari-holographic",
  "ast-grep-core",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e7b7c15f..196a9870 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "tracedecay"
-version = "0.0.49"
+version = "0.0.50"
 edition = "2024"
 description = "Code intelligence tool that builds a semantic knowledge graph from Rust, Go, Java, Scala, TypeScript, Python, C, C++, Kotlin, C#, Swift, and many more codebases"
 license = "MIT"