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 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [1.3.0] - 2026-08-03
+
 ### Added
 
 - **Language Gate** - no dimension or gate anywhere in the framework checked a posting's
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   the stock template two benign hits remain either way: the decorative separators on the
   contact and award lines, which are unrelated to dates and predate this fix.)
 
+- `tools/convert_salary_excel.py` now parses localized numeric string cells - Excel
+  exports that store numbers as text (a Danish `"108,5"`, `"1.234,5"`, or space-separated
+  thousands) previously hit `float()`'s `ValueError` and were silently dropped from
+  `salary_data.json`. The ambiguous single-comma-plus-three-digits pattern (`"1,234"`,
+  thousands in one locale and a decimal in another) is deliberately skipped rather than
+  guessed, preserving the old safe behaviour for the one case that cannot be
+  disambiguated. (#272)
+- `tools/check_upstream_updates.py` compares the template-repo slug case-insensitively -
+  GitHub serves repository paths case-insensitively, so a clone made from a lowercased
+  URL was a legitimate direct clone that nonetheless triggered #265's fork-vs-self
+  warning. (#273)
+
+### Changed
+
+- SETUP.md section 8 now shows the first-time `git remote add upstream ...` command
+  before telling you to `git fetch upstream`, which previously failed on any clone of a
+  personal fork with no explanation of the missing remote. (#274)
+
 ### Security & privacy
 
 - **The gitignore guard now covers every personal-output rule** - `security_guards.py`