dmux · Aug 19, 2026 · Aug 19, 2026
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,31 @@ project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 Per-feature design rationale and known limitations live in [FEATURES.md](FEATURES.md);
 this file records what changed between releases.
 
+## [1.7.1] — 2026-08-18
+
+Packaging fix. No runtime changes: the 1.7.0 wheel on PyPI is complete and correct,
+but its sdist was rejected and never published, so 1.7.0 has no source distribution.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **The sdist carried `ui/node_modules`.** hatchling honours only the root
+  `.gitignore`, so everything `ui/.gitignore` covers is invisible to it — and the
+  release workflow runs `pnpm install` before `uv build`. The sdist came to 350 MB
+  against PyPI's 100 MB per-file limit, and was rejected *after* the wheel had
+  already been uploaded. Now 7.0 MB.
+- **The sdist dropped the web UI**, and with it the wheel. `uv build` builds the
+  sdist first and then builds the wheel *from that sdist*, but the `artifacts`
+  override rescuing the gitignored `ui_static` export was declared only on the wheel
+  target. Nothing failed when this happened — the wheel simply installed with no
+  `/ui`. `uv build --wheel` hid it by building straight from the source tree.
+
+### Added
+
+- Two release-workflow guards, both running before anything is uploaded: one fails
+  the publish if the wheel arrives without the web UI, the other if the sdist exceeds
+  PyPI's size limit. A PyPI upload cannot be replaced, so these have to catch it
+  first.
+
 ## [1.7.0] — 2026-08-18
 
 The release that gives minilake a face: an embedded web workspace, and a real
@@ -109,5 +134,6 @@ server — all working and tested, with `MINILAKE_PERSIST` wired in.
 
 See [FEATURES.md](FEATURES.md) for the full per-feature status of this release.
 
+[1.7.1]: https://github.com/dmux/minilake/compare/v1.7.0...v1.7.1
 [1.7.0]: https://github.com/dmux/minilake/compare/v1.6.0...v1.7.0
 [1.6.0]: https://github.com/dmux/minilake/releases/tag/v1.6.0
diff --git a/FEATURES.md b/FEATURES.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 **minilake** is a local Databricks API emulator backed by DuckDB for real SQL execution. This document details all implemented features, APIs, and their current status.
 
 **Latest Update:** 2026-08-18
-**Version:** 1.7.0 — see [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) for what changed between releases
+**Version:** 1.7.1 — see [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) for what changed between releases
 **Project Status:** Core SQL + UC (per-catalog isolation) + Jobs (real DAG scheduling) + Workspace + DBFS + Files + Secrets + Clusters + Permissions + real Spark/Delta execution all working and tested; `MINILAKE_PERSIST` is now actually wired in. See [Known Limitations](#known-limitations) for what's intentionally not built (this is a single-dev local tool, not a multi-tenant server)
 
 ---

diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "minilake"
-version = "1.7.0"
+version = "1.7.1"
 description = "A local Databricks API emulator backed by DuckDB."
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.11"

diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock