diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 9051b964b..57e0fc9dc 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "0.18.13"
+  ".": "0.18.14"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b1998e184..a83fe200a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [0.18.14](https://github.com/tatolab/streamlib/compare/v0.18.13...v0.18.14) (2026-08-28)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **engine:** the ALSA arm — dlopen'd libasound with monotonic timestamps, and the chain demotes in order ([#2010](https://github.com/tatolab/streamlib/issues/2010)) ([b935d89](https://github.com/tatolab/streamlib/commit/b935d89b4d1d56718d1c7d8c89624b01b55e353e))
+
 ## [0.18.13](https://github.com/tatolab/streamlib/compare/v0.18.12...v0.18.13) (2026-08-28)
 
 
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 01d390024..b1eb7c180 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4662,7 +4662,7 @@ checksum = "6ce2be8dc25455e1f91df71bfa12ad37d7af1092ae736f3a6cd0e37bc7810596"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "streamlib"
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 dependencies = [
  "iceoryx2",
  "serde",
@@ -4672,7 +4672,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "streamlib-adapter-cpu-readback"
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "serde",
@@ -4691,7 +4691,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "streamlib-adapter-cuda"
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 dependencies = [
  "cudarc",
  "dlpark",
@@ -4712,7 +4712,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "streamlib-adapter-opengl"
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 dependencies = [
  "gl",
  "khronos-egl",
@@ -4735,7 +4735,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "streamlib-adapter-skia"
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "libloading 0.8.9",
@@ -4758,7 +4758,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "streamlib-adapter-vulkan"
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "serde",
@@ -4805,7 +4805,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "streamlib-consumer-rhi"
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "streamlib-surface-client",
@@ -4816,7 +4816,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "streamlib-engine"
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash",
  "anyhow",
@@ -4892,7 +4892,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "streamlib-error"
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "streamlib-consumer-rhi",
@@ -4902,7 +4902,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "streamlib-ipc-types"
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 dependencies = [
  "iceoryx2",
  "tracing",
@@ -4910,7 +4910,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "streamlib-macros"
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 dependencies = [
  "crossbeam-channel",
  "proc-macro-crate",
@@ -4923,7 +4923,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "streamlib-media-builtins"
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "rmp-serde",
@@ -4939,7 +4939,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "streamlib-moq"
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "moq-transport",
@@ -4959,7 +4959,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "streamlib-processor-schema"
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 dependencies = [
  "rmp-serde",
  "schemars 0.8.22",
@@ -4972,7 +4972,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "streamlib-python-wheel"
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 dependencies = [
  "cudarc",
  "libc",
@@ -4993,7 +4993,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "streamlib-surface-adapter"
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags 2.11.0",
  "libc",
@@ -5004,7 +5004,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "streamlib-surface-client"
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "serde_json",
@@ -5013,7 +5013,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "streamlib-test-fixtures"
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 dependencies = [
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
@@ -5709,7 +5709,7 @@ checksum = "0b928f33d975fc6ad9f86c8f283853ad26bdd5b10b7f1542aa2fa15e2289105a"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vulkan-jpeg"
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 dependencies = [
  "bytemuck",
  "jpeg-encoder",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 55e14bee9..316082a5b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ members = [
 ]
 
 [workspace.package]
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 edition = "2024"
 rust-version = "1.88"
 authors = ["Jonathan Fontanez <fontanezj1@gmail.com>"]
diff --git a/adapters/streamlib-adapter-cpu-readback/Cargo.toml b/adapters/streamlib-adapter-cpu-readback/Cargo.toml
index 7ffbcec19..a6a9ddbbc 100644
--- a/adapters/streamlib-adapter-cpu-readback/Cargo.toml
+++ b/adapters/streamlib-adapter-cpu-readback/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ name = "streamlib_adapter_cpu_readback"
 path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-streamlib-surface-adapter = { path = "../streamlib-surface-adapter", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-surface-adapter = { path = "../streamlib-surface-adapter", version = "0.18.14" }
 thiserror.workspace = true
 tracing.workspace = true
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dependencies]
-streamlib-consumer-rhi = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-consumer-rhi", version = "0.18.13" }
-streamlib-surface-client = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-surface-client", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-consumer-rhi = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-consumer-rhi", version = "0.18.14" }
+streamlib-surface-client = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-surface-client", version = "0.18.14" }
 vulkanalia.workspace = true
 libc.workspace = true
 serde = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/adapters/streamlib-adapter-cuda/Cargo.toml b/adapters/streamlib-adapter-cuda/Cargo.toml
index 8a59d3c09..efb75c1b9 100644
--- a/adapters/streamlib-adapter-cuda/Cargo.toml
+++ b/adapters/streamlib-adapter-cuda/Cargo.toml
@@ -33,13 +33,13 @@ cuda = ["dep:cudarc"]
 # spec's `#[repr(C)]` types, and off-Linux consumers (the wheel's CPU
 # capsule path) need exactly it.
 dlpark.workspace = true
-streamlib-surface-adapter = { path = "../streamlib-surface-adapter", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-surface-adapter = { path = "../streamlib-surface-adapter", version = "0.18.14" }
 thiserror.workspace = true
 tracing.workspace = true
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dependencies]
-streamlib-consumer-rhi = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-consumer-rhi", version = "0.18.13" }
-streamlib-surface-client = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-surface-client", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-consumer-rhi = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-consumer-rhi", version = "0.18.14" }
+streamlib-surface-client = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-surface-client", version = "0.18.14" }
 vulkanalia.workspace = true
 libc.workspace = true
 cudarc = { workspace = true, optional = true }
diff --git a/adapters/streamlib-adapter-opengl/Cargo.toml b/adapters/streamlib-adapter-opengl/Cargo.toml
index 70bf028c8..9379c6ac0 100644
--- a/adapters/streamlib-adapter-opengl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/adapters/streamlib-adapter-opengl/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,14 +15,14 @@ name = "streamlib_adapter_opengl"
 path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-streamlib-surface-adapter = { path = "../streamlib-surface-adapter", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-surface-adapter = { path = "../streamlib-surface-adapter", version = "0.18.14" }
 parking_lot = "0.12"
 thiserror.workspace = true
 tracing.workspace = true
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dependencies]
-streamlib-consumer-rhi = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-consumer-rhi", version = "0.18.13" }
-streamlib-surface-client = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-surface-client", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-consumer-rhi = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-consumer-rhi", version = "0.18.14" }
+streamlib-surface-client = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-surface-client", version = "0.18.14" }
 khronos-egl = { version = "6.0", features = ["dynamic"] }
 gl = "0.14"
 libc.workspace = true
diff --git a/adapters/streamlib-adapter-skia/Cargo.toml b/adapters/streamlib-adapter-skia/Cargo.toml
index 09e54fa35..6ef4ee93a 100644
--- a/adapters/streamlib-adapter-skia/Cargo.toml
+++ b/adapters/streamlib-adapter-skia/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,14 +15,14 @@ name = "streamlib_adapter_skia"
 path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-streamlib-surface-adapter = { path = "../streamlib-surface-adapter", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-surface-adapter = { path = "../streamlib-surface-adapter", version = "0.18.14" }
 thiserror.workspace = true
 tracing.workspace = true
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dependencies]
-streamlib-adapter-vulkan = { path = "../streamlib-adapter-vulkan", version = "0.18.13" }
-streamlib-adapter-opengl = { path = "../streamlib-adapter-opengl", version = "0.18.13" }
-streamlib-consumer-rhi = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-consumer-rhi", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-adapter-vulkan = { path = "../streamlib-adapter-vulkan", version = "0.18.14" }
+streamlib-adapter-opengl = { path = "../streamlib-adapter-opengl", version = "0.18.14" }
+streamlib-consumer-rhi = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-consumer-rhi", version = "0.18.14" }
 vulkanalia.workspace = true
 skia-safe = { workspace = true }
 # vkGetInstanceProcAddr lives on vulkanalia's private StaticCommands;
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ libloading = "0.8"
 # live under regular `[dependencies]` rather than `[dev-dependencies]`
 # because Cargo's `[[bin]]` targets don't see dev-deps. Same shape as
 # `streamlib-adapter-opengl/Cargo.toml`.
-streamlib-surface-client = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-surface-client", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-surface-client = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-surface-client", version = "0.18.14" }
 serde = { workspace = true }
 serde_json.workspace = true
 libc.workspace = true
diff --git a/adapters/streamlib-adapter-vulkan/Cargo.toml b/adapters/streamlib-adapter-vulkan/Cargo.toml
index 5542ef05a..0dd949b71 100644
--- a/adapters/streamlib-adapter-vulkan/Cargo.toml
+++ b/adapters/streamlib-adapter-vulkan/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ name = "streamlib_adapter_vulkan"
 path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-streamlib-surface-adapter = { path = "../streamlib-surface-adapter", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-surface-adapter = { path = "../streamlib-surface-adapter", version = "0.18.14" }
 thiserror.workspace = true
 tracing.workspace = true
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dependencies]
-streamlib-consumer-rhi = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-consumer-rhi", version = "0.18.13" }
-streamlib-surface-client = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-surface-client", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-consumer-rhi = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-consumer-rhi", version = "0.18.14" }
+streamlib-surface-client = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-surface-client", version = "0.18.14" }
 vulkanalia.workspace = true
 libc.workspace = true
 serde = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/packages/test-fixtures/Cargo.toml b/packages/test-fixtures/Cargo.toml
index ba636c0bf..5d677e84c 100644
--- a/packages/test-fixtures/Cargo.toml
+++ b/packages/test-fixtures/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ crate-type = ["rlib"]
 
 [dependencies]
 # Engine substrate — runtime context and processor traits.
-streamlib = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-sdk", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-sdk", version = "0.18.14" }
 
 # Procedural macros — `#[streamlib::sdk::processor("...")]` reads the
 # crate's own `streamlib.yaml` at `CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR`.
-streamlib-macros = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-macros", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-macros = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-macros", version = "0.18.14" }
 
 
 # Serialization (config dataclass ships as serde-derived).
diff --git a/runtime/streamlib-api-server/Cargo.toml b/runtime/streamlib-api-server/Cargo.toml
index 87447bd0d..92ac9ebc8 100644
--- a/runtime/streamlib-api-server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/runtime/streamlib-api-server/Cargo.toml
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ default = []
 moq = ["dep:streamlib-moq"]
 
 [dependencies]
-streamlib = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-sdk", version = "0.18.13" }
-streamlib-macros = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-macros", version = "0.18.13" }
-streamlib-moq = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-moq", version = "0.18.13", optional = true }
+streamlib = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-sdk", version = "0.18.14" }
+streamlib-macros = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-macros", version = "0.18.14" }
+streamlib-moq = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-moq", version = "0.18.14", optional = true }
 
 tower-http = { version = "0.6", features = ["trace"] }
 futures-util = "0.3"
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ percent-encoding = "2.3"
 # Enables the engine's `test-support` in-memory `TapSubscription` constructor
 # for the MCP/REST tap-tool tests. A dev-dep feature: active for tests, absent
 # from the production `cargo build` dependency graph.
-streamlib = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-sdk", version = "0.18.13", features = ["test-support"] }
+streamlib = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-sdk", version = "0.18.14", features = ["test-support"] }
 tempfile = "3"
 tower = {version = "0.5", features = ["util"]}
 serial_test = "3.2"
diff --git a/runtime/streamlib-consumer-rhi/Cargo.toml b/runtime/streamlib-consumer-rhi/Cargo.toml
index 9e93c8da9..39b0882af 100644
--- a/runtime/streamlib-consumer-rhi/Cargo.toml
+++ b/runtime/streamlib-consumer-rhi/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ thiserror.workspace = true
 tracing.workspace = true
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dependencies]
-streamlib-surface-client = { path = "../streamlib-surface-client", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-surface-client = { path = "../streamlib-surface-client", version = "0.18.14" }
 vulkanalia.workspace = true
 libc.workspace = true
 
diff --git a/runtime/streamlib-engine/Cargo.toml b/runtime/streamlib-engine/Cargo.toml
index 48f06c401..e071f7bb7 100644
--- a/runtime/streamlib-engine/Cargo.toml
+++ b/runtime/streamlib-engine/Cargo.toml
@@ -45,15 +45,15 @@ clear_bitstream_buffers_on_create = []
 
 [dependencies]
 # Processor schema types (shared with macros for code generation)
-streamlib-processor-schema = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-processor-schema", version = "0.18.13", features = ["utoipa"] }
+streamlib-processor-schema = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-processor-schema", version = "0.18.14", features = ["utoipa"] }
 
 # Canonical Error / Result / PortDirection, shared with the plugin-SDK so
 # plugin cdylibs author against them without linking the engine. The engine
 # re-exports them at `core::error`.
-streamlib-error = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-error", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-error = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-error", version = "0.18.14" }
 
 # Procedural macros
-streamlib-macros = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-macros", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-macros = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-macros", version = "0.18.14" }
 
 # Plugin ABI wire-protocol header. Dep direction reversed in #877:
 # streamlib-plugin-abi no longer depends on streamlib (the SDK), so the
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ streamlib-macros = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-macros", version = "0.18.13" }
 # `STREAMLIB_ABI_VERSION` from this crate directly.
 
 # Shared iceoryx2 payload types (for cross-process IPC)
-streamlib-ipc-types = { path = "../streamlib-ipc-types", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-ipc-types = { path = "../streamlib-ipc-types", version = "0.18.14" }
 
 # Consumer-side carve-out — owns the format primitives
 # (TextureFormat / TextureUsages / PixelFormat), the trait machinery
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ streamlib-ipc-types = { path = "../streamlib-ipc-types", version = "0.18.13" }
 # Consumer* RHI types (Linux), and a slim ConsumerRhiError. streamlib
 # re-exports the primitives so existing in-tree call sites (e.g.
 # `crate::core::rhi::TextureFormat`) keep working unchanged.
-streamlib-consumer-rhi = { path = "../streamlib-consumer-rhi", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-consumer-rhi = { path = "../streamlib-consumer-rhi", version = "0.18.14" }
 
 # Core dependencies (always included)
 thiserror.workspace = true
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ raw-window-handle = "0.6"  # Raw window handle types for Vulkan surface creation
 # privileged syscall on the requesting thread's behalf.
 zbus = "5"
 # Wire-format helpers for the per-runtime surface-sharing socket
-streamlib-surface-client = { path = "../streamlib-surface-client", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-surface-client = { path = "../streamlib-surface-client", version = "0.18.14" }
 # The extern "C" panic net (run_host_extern_c) every host_services callback
 # routes through.
 # Consumer-side carve-out — defines the trait machinery
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ streamlib-surface-client = { path = "../streamlib-surface-client", version = "0.
 # host side. streamlib re-exports for in-tree consumers; subprocess
 # cdylibs depend on it directly so the FullAccess capability boundary
 # is enforced by the type system.
-streamlib-consumer-rhi = { path = "../streamlib-consumer-rhi", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-consumer-rhi = { path = "../streamlib-consumer-rhi", version = "0.18.14" }
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "macos")'.dependencies]
 core-foundation = "0.9"
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ criterion = { version = "0.5", features = ["html_reports"] }  # Benches for logg
 # `testing::SubprocessCrashHarness` — drives a real subprocess crash against
 # the surface-share service. Tests only: the engine's library code carries no
 # surface-adapter types.
-streamlib-surface-adapter = { path = "../../adapters/streamlib-surface-adapter", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-surface-adapter = { path = "../../adapters/streamlib-surface-adapter", version = "0.18.14" }
 
 [[bench]]
 name = "logging"
diff --git a/runtime/streamlib-media-builtins/Cargo.toml b/runtime/streamlib-media-builtins/Cargo.toml
index ec31ab071..a5d507bd3 100644
--- a/runtime/streamlib-media-builtins/Cargo.toml
+++ b/runtime/streamlib-media-builtins/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ name = "streamlib_media_builtins"
 path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-streamlib = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-sdk", version = "0.18.13", default-features = false }
+streamlib = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-sdk", version = "0.18.14", default-features = false }
 serde = { workspace = true }
 serde_bytes = { workspace = true }
 tracing = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/runtime/streamlib-moq/Cargo.toml b/runtime/streamlib-moq/Cargo.toml
index c239f991f..51d784f5c 100644
--- a/runtime/streamlib-moq/Cargo.toml
+++ b/runtime/streamlib-moq/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ path = "src/lib.rs"
 # links this transport lib, so pulling the facade here would statically bundle
 # a second copy of streamlib-engine into the host process (the direct-dep grep
 # in check-boundaries does not see this transitive path).
-streamlib-error = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-error", version = "0.18.13" }
-streamlib-processor-schema = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-processor-schema", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-error = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-error", version = "0.18.14" }
+streamlib-processor-schema = { path = "../../sdk/streamlib-processor-schema", version = "0.18.14" }
 
 # MoQ-over-QUIC transport stack.
 moq-transport = "0.14.1"
diff --git a/sdk/streamlib-error/Cargo.toml b/sdk/streamlib-error/Cargo.toml
index 1741d817e..f83b5a89f 100644
--- a/sdk/streamlib-error/Cargo.toml
+++ b/sdk/streamlib-error/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ path = "src/lib.rs"
 [dependencies]
 thiserror.workspace = true
 anyhow.workspace = true
-streamlib-processor-schema = { path = "../streamlib-processor-schema", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-processor-schema = { path = "../streamlib-processor-schema", version = "0.18.14" }
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dependencies]
-streamlib-consumer-rhi = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-consumer-rhi", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-consumer-rhi = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-consumer-rhi", version = "0.18.14" }
 
 [lints]
 workspace = true
diff --git a/sdk/streamlib-macros/Cargo.toml b/sdk/streamlib-macros/Cargo.toml
index c774bbfcc..4597ed219 100644
--- a/sdk/streamlib-macros/Cargo.toml
+++ b/sdk/streamlib-macros/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ proc-macro2 = "1.0"
 proc-macro-crate = "3"
 
 # Execution types (shared with streamlib for code generation)
-streamlib-processor-schema = { path = "../streamlib-processor-schema", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-processor-schema = { path = "../streamlib-processor-schema", version = "0.18.14" }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 crossbeam-channel = "0.5"
diff --git a/sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/Cargo.toml b/sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/Cargo.toml
index 14e768b95..727c23272 100644
--- a/sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/Cargo.toml
+++ b/sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ extension-module = ["pyo3/extension-module"]
 # exist for them.
 pyo3 = { version = "0.29.0", features = ["abi3-py310"] }
 
-streamlib = { path = "../streamlib-sdk", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib = { path = "../streamlib-sdk", version = "0.18.14" }
 
 # The one control plane, hosted in-process by a runtime that enables it
 # (`rt.host_control_plane(...)`) — what makes a Python-launched app show up in
@@ -49,14 +49,14 @@ streamlib-api-server = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-api-server" }
 # The native media built-ins the wheel exports as pre-built named blocks
 # (`rt.add(TestPatternSource)`), statically linked so they are current by
 # construction.
-streamlib-media-builtins = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-media-builtins", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-media-builtins = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-media-builtins", version = "0.18.14" }
 
 # The workspace's single DLPack home: the `#[repr(C)]` v0.8 ABI mirrors, the
 # managed-tensor builders, and the layout regression test that pins them. The
 # pixel-exchange surface builds its capsules here rather than growing a second
 # copy of the spec — the CUDA half of the same adapter is what the device-memory
 # export path uses.
-streamlib-adapter-cuda = { path = "../../adapters/streamlib-adapter-cuda", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-adapter-cuda = { path = "../../adapters/streamlib-adapter-cuda", version = "0.18.14" }
 
 # The bag's value tree. A bag crosses into Python as ordinary Python data, and
 # `rmpv`'s native `bin` variant is what keeps a byte payload from decoding as
@@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ cudarc = { workspace = true }
 # consumer-side Vulkan import that turns its DMA-BUF plane fds into mapped
 # memory. Both already ride in the binary via the engine; named here so the
 # wheel can call them.
-streamlib-surface-client = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-surface-client", version = "0.18.13" }
-streamlib-consumer-rhi = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-consumer-rhi", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-surface-client = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-surface-client", version = "0.18.14" }
+streamlib-consumer-rhi = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-consumer-rhi", version = "0.18.14" }
 
 [lints]
 workspace = true
diff --git a/sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/pyproject.toml b/sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/pyproject.toml
index bc00b3339..f584b7442 100644
--- a/sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/pyproject.toml
+++ b/sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/pyproject.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ name = "streamlib"
 # Tracks [workspace.package].version in the root Cargo.toml — the plan's "two
 # artifacts, one version, released together". release-please bumps this file
 # through its `extra-files` list, so the wheel and the crate never drift.
-version = "0.18.13"
+version = "0.18.14"
 description = "StreamLib — a realtime streaming engine with Python authoring"
 # abi3-py310 in Cargo.toml is the binding half of this floor; the two move
 # together or the wheel claims interpreters its ABI tag does not cover.
diff --git a/sdk/streamlib-sdk/Cargo.toml b/sdk/streamlib-sdk/Cargo.toml
index fc6cbe2aa..e5e0d2f26 100644
--- a/sdk/streamlib-sdk/Cargo.toml
+++ b/sdk/streamlib-sdk/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ hardware-tests = ["streamlib-engine/hardware-tests"]
 test-support = ["streamlib-engine/test-support"]
 
 [dependencies]
-streamlib-engine = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-engine", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib-engine = { path = "../../runtime/streamlib-engine", version = "0.18.14" }
 # `App` sugar takes `impl Serialize` configs and encodes them to the JSON the
 # runtime carries.
 serde = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/sdk/vulkan-jpeg/Cargo.toml b/sdk/vulkan-jpeg/Cargo.toml
index 9a029bebf..df4a1798a 100644
--- a/sdk/vulkan-jpeg/Cargo.toml
+++ b/sdk/vulkan-jpeg/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ bytemuck = { version = "1.16", features = ["derive"] }
 # backend builds against (VulkanComputeKernel, StorageBuffer, TextureRing,
 # ComputeKernelDescriptor, the color-math types, and the GpuContextFullAccess
 # view) under `streamlib::sdk::*` and its `sdk::engine::host_rhi` tier.
-streamlib = { path = "../streamlib-sdk", version = "0.18.13" }
+streamlib = { path = "../streamlib-sdk", version = "0.18.14" }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 jpeg-encoder = "0.6"