diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8e6a190..404a1de 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ Tags follow `v{opencode_version}[letter]` — bare tag for the first build on a
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## v1.15.6 — 2026-05-21
+
+opencode 1.15.4 → 1.15.6 bump (two upstream patch releases) plus two workflow improvements that landed on `main` between v1.15.4b and now. No image-content changes beyond the version bump; cache hit expected on `base-35ee5fe7861a` (no `Dockerfile.base` or `rootfs/` edits).
+
+- **Bump:** opencode 1.15.4 → 1.15.6 (`OPENCODE_VERSION` in `Dockerfile.variant`). The `with-pi` and `omos-with-pi` variants will also implicitly pick up pi 0.75.3 → 0.75.4 since `PI_VERSION=latest` resolves at build time.
+- **CI: defensive `__pycache__` and macOS-metadata filter in `base-decide` hash compute.** `find rootfs -type f` previously included gitignored junk like `rootfs/__pycache__/*.pyc`, `.DS_Store`, and `._AppleDouble` files — which CI's clean checkout never sees. This bit us during v1.15.4 debugging when a stale `generate-config.cpython-314.pyc` on the local rootfs/ produced `base-3605aa6b6ab1` while CI computed `base-35ee5fe7861a`. The filter is a no-op on a clean tree (verified to still produce `35ee5fe7861a` post-filter), but defends against future stale-pyc / Finder-touched-rootfs hash mismatches. `.gitea/README.md` updated in lockstep. (commit `b6e4d89`)
+- **AGENTS.md: documentation drift sweep as explicit pre-commit workflow step.** Codifies the rule that non-release commits must also grep docs for stale claims about behaviour they change, with concrete repo-specific drift hotspots. Companion clause added across the wider repo set (cloud-init, ansible, pi-devbox, pi-extensions, pi-toolkit, cli_utils, proxmox) the same day. (commit `90e5a1f`)
+- **First release that exercises both the pinned-crane install (T14, v1.15.3) and the skip-promote-on-cache-hit guard (T15, v1.15.4) on this CI run path** — still cache-hit on base, so `promote-base-latest` should remain skipped via T15 and the pinned crane install will only fire when a real base rebuild happens.
+
 ## v1.15.4b — 2026-05-18
 
 Recovery release for v1.15.4 — the `omos-with-pi` variant landed at >3500 MB and tripped the smoke threshold, so `smoke-omos-with-pi` and `build-variant-omos-with-pi` were skipped. The other three variants (base, omos, with-pi) published cleanly. Plus a latent workflow bug fix exposed by the partial publish.
diff --git a/Dockerfile.variant b/Dockerfile.variant
index fe2a6eb..092315a 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.variant
+++ b/Dockerfile.variant
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ ARG USER_NAME=developer
 
 # ── Install opencode via npm ─────────────────────────────────────────
 ARG INSTALL_OPENCODE=true
-ARG OPENCODE_VERSION=1.15.4
+ARG OPENCODE_VERSION=1.15.6
 RUN if [ "${INSTALL_OPENCODE}" = "true" ]; then \
       NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=/usr npm install -g opencode-ai@${OPENCODE_VERSION} && \
       opencode --version ; \