diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 4723a1e41..14ef0731a 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "0.0.71"
+  ".": "0.0.72"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f2cd2e92b..51fbfb77f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [0.0.72](https://github.com/ScriptedAlchemy/tracedecay/compare/v0.0.71...v0.0.72) (2026-08-04)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **update:** quiesce daemon before lifecycle lock ([#501](https://github.com/ScriptedAlchemy/tracedecay/issues/501)) ([cfa22ae](https://github.com/ScriptedAlchemy/tracedecay/commit/cfa22aeb7b1fb7bbb5bdb3625f8d31df1f87ab23))
+
 ## [0.0.71](https://github.com/ScriptedAlchemy/tracedecay/compare/v0.0.70...v0.0.71) (2026-08-04)
 
 
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index c2a251796..5082074f7 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4857,7 +4857,7 @@ checksum = "8df9b6e13f2d32c91b9bd719c00d1958837bc7dec474d94952798cc8e69eeec3"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tracedecay"
-version = "0.0.71"
+version = "0.0.72"
 dependencies = [
  "amari-holographic",
  "axum 0.8.9",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b6651643a..09a7657aa 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ exclude = [".worktrees", ".codex-worktrees"]
 
 [package]
 name = "tracedecay"
-version = "0.0.71"
+version = "0.0.72"
 publish = false
 edition = "2024"
 description = "Code intelligence tool that builds a semantic knowledge graph from Rust, Go, Java, Scala, TypeScript, Python, C, C++, Kotlin, C#, Swift, and many more codebases"
diff --git a/version.txt b/version.txt
index c09f75a32..36e6a204e 100644
--- a/version.txt
+++ b/version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.0.71
+0.0.72