diff --git a/.commitlintrc.yml b/.commitlintrc.yml
index 2a150e3..97ef404 100644
--- a/.commitlintrc.yml
+++ b/.commitlintrc.yml
@@ -71,8 +71,19 @@ rules:
     - 2
     - never
     - '.'
-  # Body lines wrap at 100 cols.
+  # Body lines wrap at 100 cols for hand-authored commit messages.
+  # Footers (the trailing "Closes #N. ..." / "Part of #N. ..." blocks
+  # that admin squash-merge appends) get a separate, larger budget —
+  # the squash message can pull a long PR-description summary into the
+  # footer, and 100 cols there is too tight. 200 is plenty (longest
+  # footer historically: ~125 chars for "Part of #105. ... PR4 ... to
+  # follow in this same issue.") while still bounding pathological
+  # autogenerated walls of text.
   body-max-line-length:
     - 2
     - always
-    - 100
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+    - 100
+  footer-max-line-length:
+    - 2
+    - always
+    - 200
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diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b3de3b6..7a38e01 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,29 @@ 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).
 
+## [1.1.0] - 2026-07-05
+
+The headline of this release is the **`internal/ui` rollout** — the
+SPEC.md `V2` invariant that every user-facing string in `internal/`
+and `cmd/` flows through the `ui` package is now enforced (not just
+aspirational). Three PRs shipped this: `#117` adds bubbletea-backed
+spinners for long-running steps, `#118` adds huh-backed interactive
+prompts (Confirm / Select), and `#119` migrates every remaining
+`cmd.Printf` / `fmt.Fprintf` call site in `internal/cli/*` to
+`ui.Writer.{Info,Success,Warn,Error,Println}`. FancyMode (lipgloss
+glyphs + colors) and the animated braille-pattern spinner now
+appear uniformly across every command when stdout and stdin are
+both TTYs; PlainMode (no decoration) stays the default for pipes,
+CI, and `--no-color`.
+
+Also included: a `chore(ci)` relaxation of the commitlint
+`footer-max-line-length` rule from 100 to 200 chars. Admin
+squash-merge footers (the "Closes #N. ..." / "Part of #N. ..."
+trailers) routinely exceed 100 chars when they summarize a PR body,
+and the strict 100-char cap was breaking CI on every push-to-main
+after such a merge. The relaxation unblocks the release pipeline
+without weakening the body-length guard for hand-authored commits.
+
 ## [Unreleased]
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/nodeup-npm/package.json b/nodeup-npm/package.json
index 67424f2..96abe9a 100644
--- a/nodeup-npm/package.json
+++ b/nodeup-npm/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "nodeupx",
-  "version": "1.0.1",
+  "version": "1.1.0",
   "description": "Automated Node.js version upgrade + global package migration CLI. Static Go binary wrapped for npm distribution.",
   "license": "MIT",
   "author": "Dipto Karmakar <dipto@local>",
@@ -42,5 +42,5 @@
     "README.md",
     "LICENSE"
   ],
-  "binaryVersion": "1.0.1"
+  "binaryVersion": "1.1.0"
 }
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