diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 97cff18..9dc3db1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -156,6 +156,32 @@ jobs:
             # puts the command itself on PATH.
             binary "#{appdir}/yap.app/Contents/MacOS/yap"
 
+            # Homebrew replaces /Applications/yap.app, but a process keeps the
+            # image it already mapped. Without this you stay on the old version
+            # until something restarts the daemon, while "yap --version" reads
+            # the new binary on disk and agrees with the version you just
+            # installed — the worst shape for a bug, because it looks fixed.
+            #
+            # "kickstart -k" rather than an uninstall stanza: it replaces the
+            # job launchd already owns, so the daemon stays inside launchd and
+            # the plist — the login item — is untouched.
+            #
+            # Measured, because the alternative is losing someone's meeting:
+            # -k delivers SIGTERM, not SIGKILL, and yap catches SIGTERM and
+            # routes it through applicationWillTerminate. So a recording in
+            # flight is finalized and transcribes on the next start instead of
+            # losing its meta.json. launchd brings the new image up about five
+            # seconds later.
+            #
+            # must_succeed: false because an install with no login item has no
+            # job to restart, and launchctl exits 113 there. Not having asked
+            # for launch-at-login is not a reason to fail an upgrade.
+            postflight do
+              system_command "/bin/launchctl",
+                             args:         ["kickstart", "-k", "gui/#{Process.uid}/com.terrifiedbug.yap"],
+                             must_succeed: false
+            end
+
             # No uninstall stanza at all, and both halves of that are
             # deliberate. Homebrew runs these directives on upgrade as well as
             # uninstall: "launchctl" deletes
diff --git a/Sources/yap/Yap.swift b/Sources/yap/Yap.swift
index 1eebcd2..8891b46 100644
--- a/Sources/yap/Yap.swift
+++ b/Sources/yap/Yap.swift
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ struct Yap: ParsableCommand {
         // The single source of truth for what this binary is. Nothing else
         // holds a version constant, and the release workflow greps this
         // literal against the tag, so a build can never claim the wrong one.
-        version: "0.1.3",
+        version: "0.1.4",
         subcommands: [
             Run.self, Start.self, Stop.self, Record.self, Models.self, Doctor.self, Setup.self,
             Install.self, Bench.self,