diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0c2442de..2303cb15 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ The latest `## [X.Y.Z]` header must match the `version` field in `punkproject.to
 Entries are newest-first; one bullet per notable change. See the root `AGENTS.md`
 "Project Versioning" section for the bump policy.
 
+## [0.12.3] - 2026-07-12
+
+- punk::args 0.6.0 synced into the common vfs payload (_vfscommon.vfs): help/usage synopses render small restricted choice sets as literal alternates (module change committed earlier as c309ed47; this ships it in built kits).
+
 ## [0.12.2] - 2026-07-12
 
 - G-039 fix: an interactive shell orphaned by its hosting console dying (killed conhost/terminal) previously spun ~2 CPU cores forever — the Tcl 9 windows console driver never delivers the dead-console state to the script level as a fileevent (tclWinConsole.c `ConsoleEventProc` only notifies on buffered data) while its reader thread busy-loops on the persistent channel error. punk::repl 0.5.0 adds `repl::console_watchdog`, a 5s liveness poll (read-only GetConsoleMode via `chan configure -inputmode`) armed only for a tcl9 console input channel on the process-default console on windows: on a dead console it closes the input channel (stopping the driver's reader thread) and finishes the repl via the normal eof path, so the orphan exits cleanly within seconds. Piped, foreign-console and tcl 8.6 inputs are unaffected.
diff --git a/punkproject.toml b/punkproject.toml
index 20445dae..ca522472 100644
--- a/punkproject.toml
+++ b/punkproject.toml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 [project]
 name = "punkshell"
-version = "0.12.2"
+version = "0.12.3"
 license = "BSD-2-Clause"