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     "title": "[Bug]: Windows LINE Doctor contract capture fails with EEXIST on an undici-types alias",
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     "number": 169335,
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     "number": 166536,
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     "title": "[Bug]: Update 2026.9.4 \u2192 2026.9.8 fails during SQLite preflight/candidate snapshot; standalone worker succeeds",
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    },
    {
     "number": 167557,
     "title": "[Bug]: Deferred plugin data/settings migration never converges (Linux/npm); package recovery reports \"managed handoff lease database identity changed\"",
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     "prio": "P0",
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     "reactions": 1
    },
    {
     "number": 166004,
     "title": "Windows: scheduled-task Gateway service won't start (readiness timeout / state-dir ownership); 2026.9.8 update rolls back with doctor-failed",
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     "number": 165961,
     "title": "[2026.8.35] pdf / image tools and inbound image pre-analysis fail with \"No API key found for provider openai\" when OpenAI is connected only through ChatGPT OAuth",
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     "number": 161865,
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     "title": "prepared-model-catalog.worker.js: unbounded memory leak, ~4-5 GB/h, provider-agnostic (reproduced on cold reboot + provider bisect)",
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     "number": 160521,
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