Freeze for release.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: bjones1

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -24,8 +24,16 @@ Changelog
 
 * No changes.
 
-Version 0.2.5 -- 2026-Sep-21
-----------------------------
+Version 0.2.6-beta1 -- 2026-Sep-22
+----------------------------------
+
+* Fixed bug: the VSCode extension and the Server now run on Windows machines
+  which lack the Visual C++ redistributable.
+* A VSCode extension which cannot load the Server on Windows now names the
+  library it is missing, instead of reporting the Server itself as missing.
+
+Version 0.2.5-beta1 -- 2026-Sep-21
+----------------------------------
 
 * Improve diagnostics when first loading the CodeChat Editor Server in the
   VSCode extension.

Cargo.lock

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ homepage = "https://codechat-editor.onrender.com/fw/fsb/opt/render/project/src/R
 keywords = ["literate programming"]
 license = "GPL-3.0-only"
 repository = "https://github.com/bjones1/CodeChat_Editor"
-version = "0.2.5-beta1"
+version = "0.2.6-beta1"
 
 # Shared dependencies
 # -------------------

Cargo.toml

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
         url: 'https://github.com/bjones1/CodeChat_editor',
     },
     type: 'module',
-    version: '0.2.5-beta1',
+    version: '0.2.6-beta1',
     dependencies: {
         '@codemirror/commands': '^6.11.1',
         '@codemirror/lang-cpp': '^6.0.3',

client/package.json5

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
         "type": "git",
         "url": "https://github.com/bjones1/CodeChat_Editor"
     },
-    "version": "0.2.5",
+    "version": "0.2.6",
     "activationEvents": [
         "onCommand:extension.codeChatEditorActivate",
         "onCommand:extension.codeChatEditorDeactivate",