diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d28c1428..0b049008 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # Changelog
 
-All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
-
-The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
-and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
+All notable changes to WeaveFFI are documented here. The project follows
+[Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html); while it's pre-1.0,
+breaking changes bump the minor version. Entries from 0.24.0 on are written
+by release-plz, and earlier ones by semantic-release.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Features
 
 - [**breaking**] ship C ABI 3 and schema 0.10 on a consolidated engine ([#51](https://github.com/weavefoundry/weaveffi/pull/51))
+
 ## [0.23.0](https://github.com/weavefoundry/weaveffi/compare/v0.22.0...v0.23.0) (2026-09-17)
 
 ### ⚠ BREAKING CHANGES
diff --git a/crates/weaveffi/Cargo.toml b/crates/weaveffi/Cargo.toml
index c50c64cb..40c3ef6e 100644
--- a/crates/weaveffi/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/weaveffi/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,12 +19,15 @@ weaveffi-macros = { workspace = true }
 # allocations for `{prefix}_debug_live`. Every sample enables it.
 leak-check = ["weaveffi-abi/leak-check"]
 
+# Dev-dependencies are path-only (no version) so `cargo publish` strips them:
+# a versioned dev-dependency must already be on crates.io when this crate is
+# published, which would force `weaveffi-gen` to publish first.
 [dev-dependencies]
 # Only for the ABI-revision lockstep test; the facade never links the
 # generators at runtime.
-weaveffi-gen = { workspace = true }
+weaveffi-gen = { path = "../weaveffi-gen" }
 # The leak-counter test needs counting on.
-weaveffi-abi = { workspace = true, features = ["leak-check"] }
+weaveffi-abi = { path = "../weaveffi-abi", features = ["leak-check"] }
 
 [lints]
 workspace = true