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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index abe3319..de28ae3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
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 <details>
 <summary>📦 Release Highlights — version changelog</summary>
 
+- **[18 Jul 2026]** **[v0.2.3](https://github.com/EvoScientist/EvoScientist/releases/tag/v0.2.3)** — Kimi K3 selectable on Moonshot and OpenRouter (1M context); async sub-agent runs no longer get stuck pending thanks to orphaned-run cleanup; Telegram slash commands; provider fixes (DeepSeek native SDK, GPT-5.x via ChatGPT OAuth, OpenAI `reasoning_effort`); quieter tool-selector streaming and smaller checkpoints.
 - **[11 Jul 2026]** **[v0.2.2](https://github.com/EvoScientist/EvoScientist/releases/tag/v0.2.2)** — New models selectable in onboarding and `/model`: GPT-5.6 (sol, terra, luna) for OpenAI and OpenRouter, plus Grok 4.5 and Tencent Hunyuan HY3 on OpenRouter; tighter config-file permissions and a reworked onboarding OAuth flow for auxiliary models.
 - **[05 Jul 2026]** **[v0.2.1](https://github.com/EvoScientist/EvoScientist/releases/tag/v0.2.1)** — AutoSkills: EvoMemory drafts reusable skills from its own observation clusters for you to review via `/autoskills`; a new `--output-format stream-json` for headless / SDK clients; richer slash-command completions; Windows UTF-8 config reads; a TUI welcome-banner fix; langchain-openrouter 0.2.5.
 - **[26 Jun 2026]** **[v0.2.0](https://github.com/EvoScientist/EvoScientist/releases/tag/v0.2.0)** — Scheduled tasks: cron-style recurring runs via `/schedule` or natural language, run unattended with shell-access gating; self-linking memory that connects observations into a knowledge graph (complements / contradicts / supersedes); a read-only `GET /api/models` endpoint for the WebUI model picker.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f079df3..de7c188 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "EvoScientist"
-version = "0.2.2"
+version = "0.2.3"
 description = "EvoScientist: Towards Self-Evolving AI Scientists for End-to-End Scientific Discovery"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.11"
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 81696d0..5893703 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "evoscientist"
-version = "0.2.2"
+version = "0.2.3"
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