diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a3f0726..ee20f4f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ All notable changes to RecallForge will be documented in this file.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.3.1] — 2026-05-17
+
+RecallForge 0.3.1 is the final project closeout release for the Memory MCP launch push. It publishes the post-0.3.0 Linear work that landed after the original 0.3.0 tag.
+
 - Added staged background reindex promotion so document, video, audio, and conversation replacements stay hidden until their parent/child memory batches are complete.
 - Added index-version-aware query caching for repeated text/media embeddings and generated expansion branches.
 - Added MCP progress notifications for long-running search, ingest, batch, memory write, and FTS rebuild tool calls when clients provide a progress token.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 062829f..aa670b7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "recallforge"
-version = "0.3.0"
+version = "0.3.1"
 description = "Local multimodal memory for AI agents — cross-modal vision-language search"
 authors = [{name = "Brian Meyer", email = "brian@recallforge.dev"}]
 readme = "README.md"
diff --git a/src/recallforge/__init__.py b/src/recallforge/__init__.py
index e496eff..83c725f 100644
--- a/src/recallforge/__init__.py
+++ b/src/recallforge/__init__.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 import warnings
 from typing import Optional, Tuple
 
-__version__ = "0.3.0"
+__version__ = "0.3.1"
 
 
 def _has_torch() -> bool:
diff --git a/tests/test_cross_modal_benchmark_defs.py b/tests/test_cross_modal_benchmark_defs.py
index ec1cbdf..9f0838d 100644
--- a/tests/test_cross_modal_benchmark_defs.py
+++ b/tests/test_cross_modal_benchmark_defs.py
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 import unittest
 from pathlib import Path
 
+from recallforge import __version__
+
 
 def _load_cross_modal_ablation():
     repo_root = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
@@ -298,7 +300,7 @@ def test_output_payload_tracks_partial_progress(self):
             error="Interrupted by user",
         )
 
-        self.assertEqual(payload["version"], "0.3.0")
+        self.assertEqual(payload["version"], __version__)
         self.assertEqual(payload["configuration"]["expansion_profile"], "caption_only")
         self.assertEqual(payload["configuration"]["smoke_profile"], "safe")
         self.assertEqual(payload["configuration"]["rss_limit_mb"], 4096)