9.6.0

• 🚀 [TRIGGER] Add image preloading option for Docker and Docker Compose triggers (closes #1434).
• 🐛 [AUTH] Support passwords containing colons in Basic authentication per RFC 7617 (fixes #1451).
• 🐛 [CORE] Prevent startup crash caused by unhandled validation errors on invalid documentationUrl in store records (#1441).
• 🐛 [PROMETHEUS] Add result_changelog_url to Prometheus container metrics gauge and filter undeclared labels to prevent container drop (fixes #1452).
• 🐛 [REGISTRY] Accept Docker Distribution v1 notification Content-Type so GitLab registry webhook bodies are parsed instead of rejected as malformed.
• 🐛 [TRIGGER] Clear the Home Assistant MQTT topics of a renamed container, so a self-update no longer leaves a stale <name>-wud-self-update-<ts> entity behind (fixes #1438)
• 🐛 [TRIGGER] Dispatch notifications on container update success and failure trigger events (fixes #1446, fixes #1453).
• 🐛 [TRIGGER] Start restored service by container ID during Compose rollback to prevent 404 error leaving container stopped (fixes #1450).
• 🐛 [TRIGGER] Use wud.link.changelog as release_url in Home Assistant trigger entities and summary attributes (#1437).
• 🐛 [WATCHER] Evict expired destroyed container records with TTL and bounded FIFO cap to prevent memory leak (fixes #1442).
• 🐛 [WATCHER] Fix container update detection and trigger firing when transitioning out of cooldown (#1445).
• 🐛 [WATCHER] Preserve container labels from Config.Labels during targeted container reconciliation in Docker watcher (#1435).
• 🐛 [WATCHER] Reconcile and prune dead container store records at startup, serialize event processing, and prevent race conditions on container rename or destruction (#1440, #1442).