diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1269488..d0a5a39 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,50 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [2.2.0] - 2026-06-29 — "Retroactive Salience + Tool Consolidation"
+
+Three independent value streams land together as a coherent release.
+
+### Added — Retroactive Salience Backfill ("Memory with hindsight")
+
+A faithful port of Cai 2024 (*Nature*). When a **failure** (bug/crash/regression)
+is recorded, Vestige reaches **backward in time** and promotes the quiet earlier
+memory that *caused* it — the root cause a vector search structurally cannot
+surface, because it is not *similar* to the failure, only *causally upstream*
+(it shares an entity: the same file, env var, or service). Backward-only by
+construction. Auto-fires inside the consolidation pass; also exposed as the
+`backfill` MCP tool and the `vestige backfill` CLI command (`--manual`,
+`--contrast`, `--no-promote` dry-run).
+
+### Changed — MCP Tool Consolidation (34 → 13 advertised tools)
+
+The MCP surface is consolidated from 34 tools to **13**: `recall` (folds
+search + deep_reference + contradictions), `maintain` (consolidate/dream/gc/
+importance_score/backup/export/restore), `dedup` (8 merge tools → 1), `graph`
+(explore/predict/memory_graph/composed_graph), `memory_status` (system_status/
+memory_health/timeline/changelog), plus `memory`, `codebase`, `intention`,
+`smart_ingest`, `source_sync`, `session_start`, `suppress`, and the flagship
+`backfill`. Old tool names remain dispatchable as hidden back-compat aliases.
+
+### Improved — `deep_reference` retrieval engine
+
+- **F32 embeddings** (was I8 quantization) — lifts the 0.4–0.6 paraphrase cosine
+  band so close-but-reworded queries actually retrieve.
+- **Reciprocal Rank Fusion** replaces linear score combination in hybrid search.
+- **Claim-vs-memory contradiction** — `recall`/`cross_reference` now test *your
+  claim* against stored memory, surfacing `claim_contradicts_memory` instead of
+  the old "confident silence."
+- **Never-composed semantic-band gate** — admits no-shared-word memory pairs in
+  the 0.45–0.85 cosine band for `vestige compose`.
+- New `vestige recall <query>` and `vestige compose` CLI commands expose the
+  engine outside the MCP path.
+
+### Fixed — security & correctness (multi-model audit swarm)
+
+SSRF/token-exfil hardening, panic/DoS/overflow fixes, deadlock and
+lock-contention fixes, dedup and decay correctness. `usearch` keeps
+`features = ["fp16lib"]` to avoid the Windows MSVC C1021 build break (#71/#94).
+
 ## [2.1.27] - 2026-06-19 — "External-Source Connectors"
 
 Roadmap [#57](https://github.com/samvallad33/vestige/issues/57), **Phases 1–4
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e463926..3fa7b4f 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ exclude = [
 ]
 
 [workspace.package]
-version = "2.1.27"
+version = "2.2.0"
 edition = "2024"
 license = "AGPL-3.0-only"
 repository = "https://github.com/samvallad33/vestige"
diff --git a/apps/dashboard/package.json b/apps/dashboard/package.json
index 8cec6d9..fb43122 100644
--- a/apps/dashboard/package.json
+++ b/apps/dashboard/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@vestige/dashboard",
-  "version": "2.1.27",
+  "version": "2.2.0",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {
diff --git a/crates/vestige-core/Cargo.toml b/crates/vestige-core/Cargo.toml
index 6e642ee..5255f31 100644
--- a/crates/vestige-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/vestige-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "vestige-core"
-version = "2.1.27"
+version = "2.2.0"
 edition = "2024"
 rust-version = "1.91"
 authors = ["Vestige Team"]
diff --git a/crates/vestige-mcp/Cargo.toml b/crates/vestige-mcp/Cargo.toml
index 87f2a5f..d068921 100644
--- a/crates/vestige-mcp/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/vestige-mcp/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "vestige-mcp"
-version = "2.1.27"
+version = "2.2.0"
 edition = "2024"
 description = "Cognitive memory MCP server for AI agents - FSRS-6, spreading activation, synaptic tagging, 3D dashboard, and 130 years of memory research"
 authors = ["samvallad33"]
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ path = "src/bin/cli.rs"
 # Only `bundled-sqlite` is always on. `embeddings` and `vector-search` are
 # toggled via vestige-mcp's own feature flags below so `--no-default-features`
 # actually works (previously hardcoded here, which silently defeated the flag).
-vestige-core = { version = "2.1.27", path = "../vestige-core", default-features = false, features = ["bundled-sqlite"] }
+vestige-core = { version = "2.2.0", path = "../vestige-core", default-features = false, features = ["bundled-sqlite"] }
 
 # ============================================================================
 # MCP Server Dependencies
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 318fbd3..9fd787d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "vestige",
-  "version": "2.1.27",
+  "version": "2.2.0",
   "private": true,
   "description": "Cognitive memory for AI - MCP server with FSRS-6 spaced repetition",
   "author": "Sam Valladares",
diff --git a/packages/vestige-init/package.json b/packages/vestige-init/package.json
index f35540f..2ff1f73 100644
--- a/packages/vestige-init/package.json
+++ b/packages/vestige-init/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@vestige/init",
-  "version": "2.1.27",
+  "version": "2.2.0",
   "description": "Configure Vestige local memory for MCP-compatible AI agents",
   "bin": {
     "vestige-init": "bin/init.js"
diff --git a/packages/vestige-mcp-npm/package.json b/packages/vestige-mcp-npm/package.json
index 1616fdf..ec6477d 100644
--- a/packages/vestige-mcp-npm/package.json
+++ b/packages/vestige-mcp-npm/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "vestige-mcp-server",
-  "version": "2.1.27",
+  "version": "2.2.0",
   "mcpName": "io.github.samvallad33/vestige",
   "description": "Vestige MCP Server — local cognitive memory for MCP-compatible AI agents",
   "bin": {