From 69e01dc011322aae746b821233466a01470133fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: fOuttaMyPaint <154358121+TMHSDigital@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:53:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix: remove paths-ignore from release.yml so content-only
 changes still gate releases on commit prefix

Closes DTD#50. Mirrors DTD#47 pattern fixed across the tool repos. The previous paths-ignore block excluded `*.md`, `docs/`, `standards/`, `LICENSE`, and `release-drafter.yml` from triggering the workflow, but the meta-repo's release.yml uses VERSION-vs-latest-tag semantics (not commit-prefix). The result was content edits to standards/ or docs/ that bumped VERSION still got skipped at trigger time. Removing the block lets every push to main reach the workflow; the VERSION-vs-tag check then correctly decides whether to release. Bumps VERSION 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5 to validate the fix end-to-end (this very commit will both bump VERSION and previously would have been excluded; with the fix it should fire and release v1.9.5).

Made-with: Cursor
---
 .github/workflows/release.yml | 6 ------
 VERSION                       | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 3924f20..ed550a3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -3,12 +3,6 @@ name: Release
 on:
   push:
     branches: [main]
-    paths-ignore:
-      - "*.md"
-      - "docs/**"
-      - "standards/**"
-      - "LICENSE"
-      - ".github/release-drafter.yml"
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 permissions:
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index d615fd0..6ecac68 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.9.4
+1.9.5
\ No newline at end of file