diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.golangci.yml
index 4a180f2..a0eff15 100644
--- a/.golangci.yml
+++ b/.golangci.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ run:
   # The Braille helper and the DuckDB debug-log sink live behind build tags;
   # without listing them here those files are silently never analyzed.
   # Analyzing with these tags needs the same development libraries as the
-  # Arch PKGBUILD (at-spi2, gtk3, brltty, liblouis, duckdb headers).
+  # Arch PKGBUILD (at-spi2, gtk3, brltty, liblouis), plus duckdb headers
+  # until the master-tracking package recipe builds the DuckDB feature.
   build-tags:
     - brlapi
     - duckdb
diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index cfe0351..8ae14ea 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ Cthulhu is a Go Linux screen reader. `cmd/` contains executables; `internal/` ow
 ## Build, Test, and Development Commands
 
 Use Go 1.24+ with CGO and development libraries listed by the Arch `PKGBUILD`.
+Tagged DuckDB builds also need the DuckDB headers while the master-tracking
+`cthulhu-git` recipe does not build this unreleased feature.
 
 - `go build -o build/cthulhu ./cmd/cthulhu`: build the reader.
 - `go build -tags brlapi -o build/cthulhu-braille ./cmd/cthulhu-braille`: build the Braille helper.
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 8be10be..185e2e6 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -58,8 +58,9 @@ Start verification with the affected packages; run broader checks when the chang
 Lint with `golangci-lint run ./...` before submission. The configuration in
 `.golangci.yml` is v2-schema and already sets the `brlapi` and `duckdb`
 build tags, so tagged native files are analyzed; that needs the same
-development libraries as the Arch `PKGBUILD`, including BrlAPI/liblouis and
-the DuckDB headers. Keep `golangci-lint` built with a Go version at least
+development libraries as the Arch `PKGBUILD` plus DuckDB headers while the
+master-tracking `cthulhu-git` recipe does not build the unreleased DuckDB
+feature. Keep `golangci-lint` built with a Go version at least
 as new as the project toolchain: an older linter cannot decode current
 export data and reports spurious typecheck errors. Deliberate exclusions
 (cleanup `Close` calls, test-fixture error handling, style checks that
diff --git a/distro-packages/Arch-Linux/cthulhu-git/PKGBUILD b/distro-packages/Arch-Linux/cthulhu-git/PKGBUILD
index cd914eb..96ecb28 100644
--- a/distro-packages/Arch-Linux/cthulhu-git/PKGBUILD
+++ b/distro-packages/Arch-Linux/cthulhu-git/PKGBUILD
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ pkgbase=cthulhu-git
 pkgname=cthulhu-git
 _pkgname=cthulhu
 pkgver=2026.10.31.r588.g9680b58
-pkgrel=3
+pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="Desktop-agnostic screen reader with speech, Braille, and Tentacle support"
 url="https://git.stormux.org/storm/cthulhu"
 arch=(x86_64 aarch64 armv7h)
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ optdepends=(
   'git: Discover and update Tentacle repositories'
   'tesseract: OCR engine for text recognition'
   'tesseract-data-eng: English OCR language data'
-  'duckdb: DuckDB debug database logging with --debug-db'
 )
 optdepends_x86_64=(
   # Wine accessibility helpers are supported on x86_64.
@@ -55,8 +54,6 @@ makedepends=(
   git
   go
   pkgconf
-  # Headers only: libduckdb is dlopen'ed at runtime when --debug-db is used.
-  duckdb
 )
 options=(!debug !lto)
 source=("${_pkgname}::git+https://git.stormux.org/storm/${_pkgname}.git#branch=master")
@@ -85,7 +82,7 @@ build() {
   export GOCACHE="${GOCACHE:-${srcdir}/go-build}"
   export GOFLAGS="-buildmode=pie -trimpath -ldflags=-linkmode=external -mod=readonly -modcacherw"
 
-  go build -tags duckdb -o build/cthulhu ./cmd/cthulhu
+  go build -o build/cthulhu ./cmd/cthulhu
   go build -tags brlapi -o build/cthulhu-braille ./cmd/cthulhu-braille
   # Include the helper once incoming Remote keyboard support reaches master.
   if [[ -d cmd/cthulhu-input-helper ]]; then
@@ -98,7 +95,7 @@ check() {
   export CGO_ENABLED=1
   export GOPATH="${srcdir}/go"
   export GOCACHE="${GOCACHE:-${srcdir}/go-build}"
-  go test -tags 'brlapi duckdb' ./... -count=1
+  go test -tags brlapi ./... -count=1
 }
 
 package() {
diff --git a/internal/version/version.go b/internal/version/version.go
index 881349c..6a9d065 100644
--- a/internal/version/version.go
+++ b/internal/version/version.go
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import "strings"
 const Name = "Cthulhu"
 
 const Version = "2026.11.11"
-const Channel = "hunter"
+const Channel = "testing"
 
 var Build = Version