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Johnathan Corgan f0ee81ec7c Prepare the v0.5.1 release content
Move the staged changelog entries under a 0.5.1 heading dated 2026-09-06,
and add an entry for the deb-install hang: the suite started a oneshot unit
that requires the daemon, so a daemon that could not execute left the start
job undispatched and the suite reported nothing at all. That is the whole
class of fault the suite exists to find, and it protects the run that gates
artifact publication, so it is owed an entry.

Add the release notes and mirror them to the root file. The notes lead with
who should upgrade and who is unaffected, because for most users this
release changes nothing and for Debian 12 and Ubuntu 22.04 users the daemon
has never run at all. They state what was measured and what was not, and
give an objdump line that reads the floor of a binary already installed:
2.34 from this release, 2.39 from any earlier one.

The root mirror is not byte-identical to the versioned copy and cannot be.
The two files sit at different depths, so a link that resolves in one breaks
in the other; the mirror is content-identical with the relative link paths
rewritten, and the check is a diff whose every hunk is a link path. Here
that is two hunks, both confirmed to resolve.

The currency audit found five stale version sites and two claims that do
not match the tree, all corrected here. The status badge, the release-notes
link and the status sentence in the README follow the release, as they did
at v0.4.2. The FreeBSD install line gave a filename that does not exist,
since the tree is 0.5.1-dev; it now takes a version placeholder so it stops
going stale at every bump, and the example above it keeps a concrete name.

The design document recorded the first lookup fix and not the second: it
still said a returning copy is dropped as a duplicate, which the next commit
in this release exists to stop doing. It now names the counter that actually
receives the drop.

The README claimed the .deb is exercised per release. The install suite is
real and covers the five distributions it names, but it runs on push and
pull request, not at a tag, and no workflow installs the published artifact.
The sentence now says that, so the released package being checked by hand is
written down rather than assumed.

Getting-started gains the statement this release should have produced:
which distributions are supported and why the binaries run on all of them.
Until now the policy and the floor lived only in the build environment file,
so an operator had nowhere to read either.
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