diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 82e5e6a24..a82dbc0fe 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -307,7 +307,12 @@ jobs:
          - name: Test workspace packages and repo scripts (TS)
            env:
               OMP_TEST_CONCURRENCY: "4"
-           run: bun run ci:test:ts:workspace
+           run: |
+              bun run ci:test:ts:workspace
+              # Not `test:scripts`: scripts/musl-release.test.ts fails on main
+              # (its install.sh smoke-check executes a fake binary), so running
+              # the whole group here would red this job on an unrelated break.
+              bun test scripts/release.test.ts
 
    test_coding_agent_singleton:
       name: Test coding-agent singleton/global-state (TS)
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index e763563f7..c3f0dc7a2 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
     "build:native": "bun --cwd=packages/natives run build",
     "test": "bun scripts/ci-test-ts.ts local",
     "test:ts": "bun scripts/ci-test-ts.ts local-ts",
-    "test:scripts": "bun test scripts/ci-release-build-binaries.test.ts scripts/musl-release.test.ts scripts/ci-release-publish.test.ts",
+    "test:scripts": "bun test scripts/ci-release-build-binaries.test.ts scripts/musl-release.test.ts scripts/ci-release-publish.test.ts scripts/release.test.ts",
     "test:rs": "bun scripts/run-rs-task.ts test:rs",
     "check": "bun run --parallel check:ts check:rs",
     "check:ts": "bun run check:tools && bun run --workspaces --if-present check",
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md
index 94b193953..0b32d4c82 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,11 +2,6 @@
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
-## [17.2.8] - 2026-08-04
-
-### Changed
-
-- Upgraded the bundled omptype schema engine: intersection and pipe operators, bigint and RegExp literals in the string DSL, Standard Schema V1 interop, JSON Schema import via fromJsonSchema(), and richer union/collection error reporting.
 ### Breaking Changes
 
 - Renamed `compareVersions` to `compareChangelogEntries` in `@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/utils/changelog`. The function signature and behavior are unchanged; update imports to use the new name.
@@ -15,6 +10,12 @@
 
 - Routed Bun install-cache pruning in `update-cli` through the shared `compareVersions` utility (`@oh-my-pi/pi-utils`), removing a duplicate local comparator that rounded large numeric version identifiers via `Number`.
 
+## [17.2.8] - 2026-08-04
+
+### Changed
+
+- Upgraded the bundled omptype schema engine: intersection and pipe operators, bigint and RegExp literals in the string DSL, Standard Schema V1 interop, JSON Schema import via fromJsonSchema(), and richer union/collection error reporting.
+
 ## [17.2.7] - 2026-08-03
 
 ### Changed