diff --git a/release-notes/beta_84.txt b/release-notes/beta_84.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d5f22dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release-notes/beta_84.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# beta_84 - test build. Stable is now beta_83.
+# One user-facing note per non-blank, non-# line; # lines are section comments.
+
+# --- New board ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+New board: the LilyGo T-Deck Max, contributed and tested by pelgraine. It is the T-Deck Pro's hardware with the peripheral power rails and resets behind an I/O expander and a fuel gauge for the battery, and it reuses the Pro's display and touch drivers. The e-paper screen gets its own handling: no fades, no black frame left on the glass when it sleeps, tap to wake, and the keyboard backlight on a both-Shift chord. It starts with Wi-Fi off and Bluetooth on, because both at once leave this board short of memory. Experimental, so please report what works.
+
+# --- Reading the screen outdoors ---------------------------------------------------------------
+High contrast day and night themes, for sunlight where the normal palette washes out. Settings, Display, Theme.
+
+# --- Regions -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Channel regions can be discovered instead of typed: the region page scans for repeaters you can hear and lists the regions they allow, and channel scope offers them in a picker.
+
+# --- Languages ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Czech, contributed by brebtatv. Settings, Language.
+
+# --- ThinkNode M9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+With the home drawer locked, Back (and Esc on a Bluetooth keyboard) now stays on it instead of escaping to the tabs behind it.
+The Language settings cursor returns where it was after visiting the Store, and a channel keeps its unread colour.
+
+# --- Heltec V4 and V4-R8 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+An M5Stack CardKB can be plugged into the board's I2C bus and used as a keyboard. It is detected when present, so nothing changes without one.
+V4-R8: bigger text sizes to choose from, and the top row of the screen no longer swallows taps meant for the page.
+
+# --- Fixes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Radio settings save again when the region field holds a name the new rules reject, such as one with capitals. Only the region is skipped now, instead of the frequency, bandwidth and power going with it.
+The Show button on telemetry shows its label in Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Greek instead of empty boxes.
+Scanning for regions no longer leaves nameless entries behind in Contacts.
+Wio Tracker L2: the SD card gets a power cycle and a second try when it does not mount at boot.
+
+# --- For testers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Region discovery is new on-air traffic and has not been tested on a live mesh yet. Worth reporting whether a scan finds your repeaters' regions.
diff --git a/scripts/build/gen-flasher-meta.py b/scripts/build/gen-flasher-meta.py
index 1c00b00..d2da352 100644
--- a/scripts/build/gen-flasher-meta.py
+++ b/scripts/build/gen-flasher-meta.py
@@ -49,6 +49,12 @@ BOARDS = {
     "manifest-tdisplay-p4.json":      ("wadamesh - LilyGo T-Display P4", "wadamesh-tdisplay-p4-merged.bin", "ESP32-P4"),
 }
 for fn, (name, binf, chip) in BOARDS.items():
+    # A board that joined the matrix after this tag has no image in this feed
+    # (promoting an older tag to stable). Writing a manifest for it would hand
+    # the flasher a 404, so leave it out of this channel.
+    if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(outdir, binf)):
+        print("note: %s missing in %s -> no %s" % (binf, outdir, fn))
+        continue
     manifest = {
         "name": name + ("" if channel == "stable" else " (beta)"),
         "version": tag,
diff --git a/scripts/release.sh b/scripts/release.sh
index ae6cb7e..ac9b560 100755
--- a/scripts/release.sh
+++ b/scripts/release.sh
@@ -92,6 +92,12 @@ else
   fi
   for pair in $ENVS; do
     name="${pair##*:}"
+    # A board added after this tag was cut has no bins to promote. Skip it
+    # instead of aborting the whole promotion (set -e), and say so.
+    if [ ! -f "$SRC/$name-merged.bin" ]; then
+      echo "note: $name has no $TAG build (board added later) — not in this stable set"
+      continue
+    fi
     cp "$SRC/$name.bin"        "$ARCH/$TAG/$name.bin"
     cp "$SRC/$name-merged.bin" "$ARCH/$TAG/$name-merged.bin"
     cp "$SRC/$name-merged.bin" "$FEED/$name-merged.bin"