diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index dc89fe6..7364c40 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ All notable changes to this project are documented here. The format follows
 [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/), and the project aims to follow
 Semantic Versioning.
 
-## [Unreleased]
+## [0.30.0] - 2026-10-16
 
 ### Added
 - **`docs/platforms.md`: what runs where.** One page with a matrix per operating system (engine,
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 2970115..cad9c92 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.21)
 # --version, and the run-parameter preamble of every metrics CSV), so a committed benchmark file
 # says which engine produced it. Keep it in step with CHANGELOG.md and the app's versionName:
 # scripts/check-version.sh compares the three, in CI and against the tag before a release builds.
-project(bigmoeonedge VERSION 0.29.0 LANGUAGES CXX)
+project(bigmoeonedge VERSION 0.30.0 LANGUAGES CXX)
 
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)
diff --git a/docs/platforms.md b/docs/platforms.md
index 6c8a9e5..ddd7a87 100644
--- a/docs/platforms.md
+++ b/docs/platforms.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ What runs where, how far each platform has been taken, and what each one still o
 the summary; the evidence behind every cell is in the page it links to, and a cell with no
 measurement behind it says so rather than implying one.
 
-Last reviewed on 2026-10-16, against `main` after release 0.29.0.
+Last reviewed on 2026-10-16, against release 0.30.0.
 
 ## How to read the tables
 
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ platform: the device is measured, and the streamer's own memory is not yet hande
 
 ## What each platform owes
 
-- **Android.** A run of the app on a phone before it is released, as every release gets. Per-value
-  provenance in the settings, so a reader sees what the plan set and what differs from the
+- **Android.** The NPU prefill run again on the release APK, the one build with the Hexagon
+  backend: the 0.30.0 phone run used a CPU-only build. Per-value provenance in the settings, so a reader sees what the plan set and what differs from the
   default ([screens.md](screens.md)).
 - **macOS.** A signed installer that updates itself, in place of the archive. The byte-identity
   gates in CI, which today run on Linux only.
diff --git a/docs/roadmap.md b/docs/roadmap.md
index 0ed3e62..be630c6 100644
--- a/docs/roadmap.md
+++ b/docs/roadmap.md
@@ -22,10 +22,11 @@ A phone serving a laptop's coding agent is the same product as a laptop serving
 
 The order is the order of dependence, and each step ships on its own.
 
-**Release what is on `main`.** The planner, the parameter table, the macOS port, the desktop
-server and the iOS harness are merged and unreleased. A release gets a run on a real device first,
-a dry run of the APK workflow since the binaries moved, and the desktop archive tried once on
-Windows, where CI compiles the server and nothing has run it. Nothing else lands before the tag.
+**Release what is on `main`.** Shipped: the planner, the parameter table, the macOS port, the
+desktop server and the iOS harness in 0.29.0; the server as the framework, the Android app on it
+and one visual language in 0.30.0, after a run of the app on a phone and of the desktop server on
+Windows. Owed from that run: the NPU prefill on the release APK, the one build that carries the
+Hexagon backend.
 
 **One application framework.** The server is it ([application-framework.md](application-framework.md)).
 Its policy - the engine host with its one session and its turn line, the model library, the
diff --git a/examples/android/app/build.gradle b/examples/android/app/build.gradle
index 05db3ef..0baf790 100644
--- a/examples/android/app/build.gradle
+++ b/examples/android/app/build.gradle
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ android {
         applicationId 'io.bigmoeonedge.example'
         minSdk 29
         targetSdk 34
-        versionCode 44
-        versionName '0.29.0'
+        versionCode 45
+        versionName '0.30.0'
         buildConfigField 'String', 'GIT_SHA', "\"${gitSha}\""
         ndk {
             // The engine ships as prebuilt arm64 binaries staged by build-android.ps1.