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 Scheduled Release 8.2602.0 (aka 2026.02) 2026-12-??
 - overall improved documentation via a large set of topic updates.
 
+- 2026-01-16: queue: harden disk recovery after invalid .qi
+  This probably fixes rare but reported disk queue startup errors, at
+  least a subset of them (these cases were hard to reproduce).
+  Hardens disk-queue recovery after an invalid .qi so read/write pointers
+  realign and on-disk size is corrected. This prevents stuck queues and
+  stabilizes the daqueue dirty shutdown test.
+  Bug Fixes
+  - On anomaly (rd==wr and offsets equal), seek the read-delete cursor to
+    the writer, subtract deleted bytes from sizeOnDisk, and align the
+    read-dequeue cursor; keep draining if seek fails.
+  - Log errors when pointer resets or seeks fail.
+  - Add strm.Sync() to keep stream state consistent after pointer updates.
+  - Refactor invalid .qi recovery and startup seek errors into helpers.
+  - When spool read files are missing on startup, align read to write and
+    continue recovery.
 - 2026-01-16: core: fsync+atomic rename for pid file; abort on failure
   Empty pid files were reported by users, leading to supervision issues.
   This hardens startup so that the pid file is either durably written or