diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 73180f76c..bf57ee971 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@
 **Logging** (`jacquard`, `jacquard-axum`)
 - [PR from @nekomimi.pet](https://tangled.org/nonbinary.computer/jacquard/pulls/5) cleaning up more debug logs, and adding tracing feature gate to jacquard-axum
 
+## Fixed
+
+**Repo commit signatures** (`jacquard-repo`)
+- commit signatures generated by `jacquard-repo` should now be consistent with other implementations
+- previously, they included an empty `sig` bytes field in the signed struct, which has a different CBOR serialization from the canonical relay implementation expectations.
+
 ## [0.9.5] - 2025-12-19
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1fb228bf6..58c0b82d4 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2613,7 +2613,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "jacquard-repo"
-version = "0.9.5"
+version = "0.9.6"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "bytes",
diff --git a/crates/jacquard-repo/Cargo.toml b/crates/jacquard-repo/Cargo.toml
index 1146c478d..157cb3134 100644
--- a/crates/jacquard-repo/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/jacquard-repo/Cargo.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 name = "jacquard-repo"
 description = "AT Protocol repository primitives: MST, commits, CAR I/O"
 edition.workspace = true
-version.workspace = true
+version = "0.9.6"
 authors.workspace = true
 repository.workspace = true
 keywords.workspace = true
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ default = []
 
 [dependencies]
 # Internal
-jacquard-common = { path = "../jacquard-common", version = "0.9.0", features = ["crypto-ed25519", "crypto-k256", "crypto-p256"] }
-jacquard-derive = { path = "../jacquard-derive", version = "0.9.0" }
+jacquard-common = { path = "../jacquard-common", version = "0.9", features = ["crypto-ed25519", "crypto-k256", "crypto-p256"] }
+jacquard-derive = { path = "../jacquard-derive", version = "0.9" }
 
 # Serialization
 serde.workspace = true