diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1065248..d740d10 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,8 +16,12 @@ Deprecated, Fixed or Security.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.9.4] - 2026-11-03
+
 ### Fixed
 
+- Foreground daemons hold the lifetime lease, preventing identity activation
+  from bypassing daemon teardown; stale control sockets are recovered.
 - Identity activation recovery waits for an already-stopping daemon's lifetime
   lease even after its control socket closes. Interrupt, terminate, and hangup
   signals cannot interrupt the stop/swap/restart recovery window.
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 25a6b5f..d9601e4 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "fabric"
-version = "0.9.3"
+version = "0.9.4"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "blake3",
@@ -1007,7 +1007,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "fabric-config"
-version = "0.9.3"
+version = "0.9.4"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "blake3",
@@ -1023,7 +1023,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "fabric-service-api"
-version = "0.9.3"
+version = "0.9.4"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "libc",
@@ -1034,11 +1034,11 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "fabric-stdio"
-version = "0.9.3"
+version = "0.9.4"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "fabric-sync"
-version = "0.9.3"
+version = "0.9.4"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "blake3",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index fa44db2..8e15961 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ default-members = [".", "crates/fabric-sync"]
 
 [package]
 name = "fabric"
-version = "0.9.3"
+version = "0.9.4"
 edition = "2024"
 description = "Local socket facade for iroh-backed cross-machine transports"
 repository = "https://github.com/compoundingtech/fabric"
diff --git a/crates/fabric-config/Cargo.toml b/crates/fabric-config/Cargo.toml
index 192ad5c..be9995a 100644
--- a/crates/fabric-config/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/fabric-config/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "fabric-config"
-version = "0.9.3"
+version = "0.9.4"
 edition = "2024"
 description = "The files and local contracts the fabric daemon and its sync companion share"
 repository = "https://github.com/compoundingtech/fabric"
diff --git a/crates/fabric-service-api/Cargo.toml b/crates/fabric-service-api/Cargo.toml
index 9bf1fce..94d70f2 100644
--- a/crates/fabric-service-api/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/fabric-service-api/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "fabric-service-api"
-version = "0.9.3"
+version = "0.9.4"
 edition = "2024"
 description = "What a fabric service needs from the base network: an authenticated stream from one peer for one service"
 repository = "https://github.com/compoundingtech/fabric"
diff --git a/crates/fabric-stdio/Cargo.toml b/crates/fabric-stdio/Cargo.toml
index 79c3105..14e71c9 100644
--- a/crates/fabric-stdio/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/fabric-stdio/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "fabric-stdio"
-version = "0.9.3"
+version = "0.9.4"
 edition = "2024"
 description = "Write an exec service for fabric: bridge a process's stdin and stdout to a socket without std::io::copy"
 repository = "https://github.com/compoundingtech/fabric"
diff --git a/crates/fabric-sync/Cargo.toml b/crates/fabric-sync/Cargo.toml
index 9b85f20..59d1647 100644
--- a/crates/fabric-sync/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/fabric-sync/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "fabric-sync"
-version = "0.9.3"
+version = "0.9.4"
 edition = "2024"
 description = "The fabric file-sync engine and its supervised companion process"
 repository = "https://github.com/compoundingtech/fabric"