diff --git a/goodwe_controller/CHANGELOG.md b/goodwe_controller/CHANGELOG.md
index e22c7d9..df0a58d 100644
--- a/goodwe_controller/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/goodwe_controller/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,86 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.9.0
+
+⚠️ **MINOR FOR NEW FUNCTIONALITY, NOT FOR A BREAK - AND THAT DISTINCTION IS THE
+POINT.** 0.8.0 was minor because a config that started on 0.7.0 could be
+REFUSED on it (rule 10 against 0.7.0's own default `slew_w: 1000`). Nothing of
+that kind is true here, and it was checked rather than assumed:
+
+- `options:` and `schema:` both hold **71 top-level keys**, the same 71 as
+  0.8.0. The one schema addition is a per-entry key, `capacity_kwh:
+  float(0.1,200)?` - **note the trailing `?`, it is OPTIONAL**.
+- An unmodified 0.8.0-era config validates clean on 0.9.0. Measured on both the
+  flat single-inverter shape the reference install runs and an N=2 roster with
+  no `capacity_kwh` on any entry: **0 problems each**.
+- The two refusals [[OPT-09]] adds fire only on configs that USE the new key -
+  an unparseable value, or the key stated on one roster entry and left empty on
+  another. Neither can reach a config written before the key existed.
+
+So: existing installs upgrade untouched, and the bump is minor because the
+option surface and the behaviour grew.
+
+Contents, in merge order since 0.8.0 (`06661c5`):
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| `3d29993` | UX-02 - the validator's refusals, next to the field, before the save |
+| `fdb3b69` | OPT-09 - the weights parameter nothing ever passed, and what it cannot do |
+| `fcaa724` | PKG-09 - refuse a deploy that would be a no-op, or that the add-on would reject |
+
+**UX-02** builds the real configuration surface in the ingress panel, beside the
+Supervisor Configuration tab that cannot be removed. The prize is not styling:
+`validate.py` writes long cross-field refusals the Supervisor UI *structurally
+cannot show*, and until now an operator met them as **exit 78 in a log**, after
+saving and restarting. ⚠️ Two config surfaces now exist and the DECISIONS record
+names the **stored options blob** as authoritative, neither UI.
+
+**OPT-09** makes the architecture's one free parameter real. `main.py` called
+`resolve()` without weights, so the split was a fixed 50/50 regardless of what
+either pack could deliver; it now passes SoC- and capacity-aware weights.
+
+⚠️ **OPT-09 SHIPS A DISCLOSED DETECTION REGRESSION AT N=2.** `delivery.
+delinquent()` reads an ABSOLUTE 500 W gap, so weighting a low-headroom unit down
+to a small share puts a unit delivering **none of what it was asked** under the
+threshold. Measured: a wedged inverter goes from named on 199 of 200 cycles to
+**0 of 200** at a load its sibling can carry alone. The alarm returns once the
+healthy pack saturates - swept, that is a 5000 W load on the fixture, **below**
+the proportional-regime formula's 6500 W and not above it. ⚠️ **N=1 IS
+UNAFFECTED**: `allocator.plan()` returns before weights are read at all. The
+closure is card SAFETY-43.
+
+**PKG-09** adds `tools/predeploy_check.py`. ⚠️ **RUN IT BEFORE DEPLOYING THIS
+RELEASE** - it is what caught the fact that 0.8.0 had five runtime commits
+behind it, which is why this section exists:
+
+    docker run --rm -v <repo>:/w:ro goodwe-addon-checks:1 \
+      python3 /w/goodwe_controller/tools/predeploy_check.py \
+      --deployed-version 0.8.0 --options /w/live-options.json
+
+Exit `0` cleared, `1` REFUSED, `2` NOT CLEARED. ⚠️ **2 is not a pass.**
+
+✅ **RUN AGAINST THIS RELEASE, 2026-09-07: CLEARED, exit 0.** The reference
+install's options were exported from the Supervisor (70 keys) and checked twice
+- the stored blob as-is, and the **effective post-upgrade config**, being those
+70 keys merged over 0.9.0's 71 defaults. Both pass. `max_w` 5000, `slew_w` 400
+against a rule-10 ceiling of 555.6 W.
+
+⚠️ **THE STORED BLOB HAS 70 KEYS, NOT 71, AND THAT IS THE INTERESTING PART.**
+`delivery_hold_s` arrived with SAFETY-42 in 0.8.0, so an install running 0.7.0
+has never stored it - and it is REQUIRED in the schema, no trailing `?`, which
+is the shape that becomes exit 78. It resolves to its `options:` default of
+**185**, because the Supervisor sets `App.options = deepmerge(config.yaml
+defaults, stored options)`; `tools/supervisor_selfapi_probe.py` §D pins that
+against a real Supervisor image rather than assuming it. The second check above
+exists because "your saved settings are valid" and "what the box will actually
+run is valid" are different questions, and only the second one matters.
+
+⚠️ **THE VERSION WENT UNBUMPED FOR THE THIRD TIME IN THREE DAYS** - PKG-06 six
+merges, PKG-07 six, this one five - and this time it was caught by PKG-09's own
+tool during PKG-09's review rather than by a person. `ha apps update` against an
+unchanged version installs nothing and reports success. PKG-10 carries the
+post-merge alarm so that noticing stops being a human's job.
+
 ## Unreleased
 
 ⚠️ **THIS HAS NO VERSION AND CANNOT REACH AN INSTALL UNTIL IT GETS ONE.**
diff --git a/goodwe_controller/config.yaml b/goodwe_controller/config.yaml
index 3d6a6b1..8a96dbe 100644
--- a/goodwe_controller/config.yaml
+++ b/goodwe_controller/config.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: GoodWe RS485 Controller
-version: "0.8.0"
+version: "0.9.0"
 slug: goodwe_controller
 description: >-
   Drives a GoodWe ES/BP battery inverter over RS485 by emulating its smart