diff --git a/app/build.gradle.kts b/app/build.gradle.kts
index 28164de..1dcc701 100644
--- a/app/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/app/build.gradle.kts
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ android {
         targetSdk = 36
         // Raised for every build published to the download page (TASK-066), or the app will not
         // see it as newer.
-        versionCode = 7
-        versionName = "0.2.5"
+        versionCode = 8
+        versionName = "0.2.6"
 
         testInstrumentationRunner = "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
     }
diff --git a/app/src/main/baseline-prof.txt b/app/src/main/baseline-prof.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9eca76e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/src/main/baseline-prof.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+HSPLcom/ubisam/ubgitea/**->**(**)**
+Lcom/ubisam/ubgitea/**;
diff --git a/docs/development-log.md b/docs/development-log.md
index c01e8aa..bf1d2b0 100644
--- a/docs/development-log.md
+++ b/docs/development-log.md
@@ -1768,3 +1768,26 @@ This is the append-only implementation and handoff record shared by Codex and Cl
   to the product owner, who put them off. The in-app update from 0.2.4 is used for the first
   time by this version and was not watched on a device.
 
+## 2026-10-12 (continued) — TASK-077: a baseline profile for the app's code, published as 0.2.6
+
+- Request: the product owner asked for the baseline profile to be added and published as 0.2.6,
+  knowing it takes effect about a day after installing and again after each update.
+- What changed: `app/src/main/baseline-prof.txt` names every class and method under
+  `com.ubisam.ubgitea`. The build already carried the libraries' profiles and the installer
+  that hands them to the phone; this adds the app's own code to them. Version 0.2.6
+  (versionCode 8). Source pushed to `main`; `UBGitea.apk` and `version.json` on the `apk`
+  branch replaced.
+- Why all of the app's code and not a recorded startup path: the slow first frames measured
+  under TASK-069 were in the screens' own code, wherever the user went, and the app is small.
+- Checks and results: the five required checks and `assembleRelease` pass; lint 0 errors. On
+  the product owner's device, after one launch, the phone's profile for the app listed about
+  30,000 of its methods. Compiled from it over adb
+  (`cmd package compile -m speed-profile`, what the phone does by itself in the background),
+  the slowest frame of a tab move was 5–16 ms, of opening a card under 활동 중인 저장소
+  17–28 ms, and of Back 12–13 ms. Installed and not yet compiled, the same build had given
+  9–50, 34–44 and 14–22 ms. A frame is 8.3 ms. The APK downloaded from the `apk` branch has
+  the same SHA-256 as the one built here.
+- Caution: the measured run was shorter than the earlier ones; the phone was in use during it
+  and some moves were not recorded. Nothing changes for a user until the phone has compiled
+  the app in the background, usually overnight while charging, and each update starts that
+  wait again. R8 is still off (TASK-016).
diff --git a/tasks/077-baseline-profile-and-0.2.6.md b/tasks/077-baseline-profile-and-0.2.6.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..245dba9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tasks/077-baseline-profile-and-0.2.6.md
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# TASK-077: A baseline profile for the app's own code, published as 0.2.6
+
+Status: done
+Owner: Claude
+Reviewer: human product owner
+
+## Request
+
+The product owner asked for the baseline profile to be added and published as 0.2.6
+(2026-10-12), after it was explained that it takes effect when the phone next compiles apps in
+the background, about a day after installing, and again after each update.
+
+## Outcome
+
+The APK tells the phone which code to compile ahead of time: all of the app's own. Until the
+phone has done so the app runs as before.
+
+## Writable paths
+
+- `app/src/main/baseline-prof.txt`
+- `app/build.gradle.kts`
+- `tasks/077-baseline-profile-and-0.2.6.md`
+- `docs/development-log.md`
+
+## Acceptance criteria
+
+- [x] The release APK's profile names the app's own classes and methods, and the phone takes it
+  up on first launch.
+- [x] Compiled from that profile, the moves measured under TASK-069 are no slower than before.
+- [x] Version 0.2.6, versionCode 8.
+- [x] The source is on `main` of the team's repository.
+- [x] `UBGitea.apk` and `version.json` on the `apk` branch are 0.2.6, and the downloaded APK is
+  byte-identical to the one built here.
+
+## Security and privacy
+
+No additional concerns. The profile lists class and method names the APK already contains. No
+secret is in it or in the push.
+
+## Required checks
+
+```text
+./gradlew compileDebugKotlin compileDebugUnitTestKotlin testDebugUnitTest assembleDebug lintDebug
+./gradlew assembleRelease
+```
+
+## Evidence
+
+See the development log entry for TASK-077.
+
+## Review findings
+
+None.