diff --git a/.github/workflows/validate_wrapper.yml b/.github/workflows/validate_wrapper.yml
index 8d7eb1c..cfafd01 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/validate_wrapper.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/validate_wrapper.yml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ env:
   # Qualification only: never moves the production submodule or release channel.
   LLAMADART_QUALIFICATION_SHA: 73ab7599b553c03f6f5d2db24a18ad76f2eb36a3
   LLAMADART_V041_QUALIFICATION_SHA: b29c606e28a01b1bc8c1351026a0fa6e616bf6c4
+  LLAMADART_V050_QUALIFICATION_SHA: 7fe450e19305b828c199d602c23a8337aaa1f03b
 
 jobs:
   changes:
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        upstream: [post-v0.4.0, v0.4.1]
+        upstream: [post-v0.4.0, v0.4.1, v0.5.0]
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v7
         with:
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ jobs:
           submodules: recursive
       - name: Select candidate upstream
         env:
-          LLAMADART_QUALIFICATION_SHA: ${{ matrix.upstream == 'v0.4.1' && env.LLAMADART_V041_QUALIFICATION_SHA || env.LLAMADART_QUALIFICATION_SHA }}
+          LLAMADART_QUALIFICATION_SHA: ${{ matrix.upstream == 'v0.5.0' && env.LLAMADART_V050_QUALIFICATION_SHA || matrix.upstream == 'v0.4.1' && env.LLAMADART_V041_QUALIFICATION_SHA || env.LLAMADART_QUALIFICATION_SHA }}
         run: |
           git -C third_party/llama.cpp fetch --depth=1 origin "$LLAMADART_QUALIFICATION_SHA"
           git -C third_party/llama.cpp checkout --detach "$LLAMADART_QUALIFICATION_SHA"
@@ -92,7 +93,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        upstream: [post-v0.4.0, v0.4.1]
+        upstream: [post-v0.4.0, v0.4.1, v0.5.0]
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v7
         with:
@@ -100,7 +101,7 @@ jobs:
           submodules: recursive
       - name: Select candidate upstream
         env:
-          LLAMADART_QUALIFICATION_SHA: ${{ matrix.upstream == 'v0.4.1' && env.LLAMADART_V041_QUALIFICATION_SHA || env.LLAMADART_QUALIFICATION_SHA }}
+          LLAMADART_QUALIFICATION_SHA: ${{ matrix.upstream == 'v0.5.0' && env.LLAMADART_V050_QUALIFICATION_SHA || matrix.upstream == 'v0.4.1' && env.LLAMADART_V041_QUALIFICATION_SHA || env.LLAMADART_QUALIFICATION_SHA }}
         run: |
           git -C third_party/llama.cpp fetch --depth=1 origin "$LLAMADART_QUALIFICATION_SHA"
           git -C third_party/llama.cpp checkout --detach "$LLAMADART_QUALIFICATION_SHA"
@@ -139,7 +140,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        upstream: [pinned, post-v0.4.0]
+        upstream: [pinned, post-v0.4.0, v0.5.0]
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v7
         with:
@@ -151,7 +152,7 @@ jobs:
           arch: arm64
       - name: Select candidate upstream
         env:
-          LLAMADART_QUALIFICATION_SHA: ${{ matrix.upstream == 'v0.4.1' && env.LLAMADART_V041_QUALIFICATION_SHA || env.LLAMADART_QUALIFICATION_SHA }}
+          LLAMADART_QUALIFICATION_SHA: ${{ matrix.upstream == 'v0.5.0' && env.LLAMADART_V050_QUALIFICATION_SHA || env.LLAMADART_QUALIFICATION_SHA }}
         if: matrix.upstream != 'pinned'
         shell: bash
         run: |
diff --git a/docs/v050_android_isa_qualification.md b/docs/v050_android_isa_qualification.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..888d2c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/v050_android_isa_qualification.md
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+# v0.5.0 Android CPU ISA qualification
+
+The Android arm64 OpenCL build in native release run `35976011426` compiled
+successfully, then rejected the new complete `ggml/src` fingerprint. It
+selected upstream v0.5.0 at `7fe450e19305b828c199d602c23a8337aaa1f03b`. The
+arm64 Vulkan job in the same run failed earlier, in shader generation, so it
+never reached this gate. This policy update does not change the production
+submodule pin, the release channel, or the dispatched-function allowlist.
+
+## Source review
+
+Compared with the previously audited v0.4.1 tree
+(`b29c606e28a01b1bc8c1351026a0fa6e616bf6c4`), 203 files under `ggml/src`
+changed: eight CPU files, five shared files, and 190 accelerator files
+(Hexagon, OpenVINO, Vulkan, Metal, CUDA, SYCL, OpenCL, WebGPU, RPC). The
+following are byte-unchanged: `ggml-cpu/kleidiai/`, ARM feature detection
+(`arch/arm/cpu-feats.cpp`), `ggml-cpu/CMakeLists.txt`, `ggml/src/CMakeLists.txt`
+and `ggml/cmake`. KleidiAI is still v1.24.0 and its `kai` tree digest is
+unchanged. The `ggml/CMakeLists.txt` delta is the ggml version bump
+(0.24.0 to 0.25.1).
+
+Only one change touches ARM code: 8034c1d1f adds Q1_0 repack kernels
+(`ggml_gemv/gemm_q1_0_4x{4,8}_q8_0`). Each NEON body is compile-time guarded
+(`__ARM_FEATURE_DOTPROD` for the 4x4 kernels and the 4x8 GEMV,
+`__ARM_FEATURE_MATMUL_INT8` for the 4x8 GEMM) and falls through to the
+existing generic C implementation. `arch-fallback.h` maps the new names on
+non-ARM targets. Kernel selection in `repack.cpp` follows the existing
+repack pattern. It requires `ggml_cpu_has_neon()` plus
+`ggml_cpu_has_matmul_int8()` or `ggml_cpu_has_dotprod()`, and `ne[1] % 4 == 0`.
+On ARM those predicates are compile-time constants of the variant being built
+(`#if __ARM_FEATURE_*` in `ggml-cpu.c`), not HWCAP queries, so each isolated
+variant selects only kernels its own flags allow. Which variant loads remains
+the job of the unchanged `cpu-feats.cpp` scoring. The kernels contain no SVE or
+SME code.
+
+The other CPU changes are ISA-neutral. They add F16 `src1` to the
+Hadamard/FWHT path of `ggml-cpu.c`/`.cpp`/`ops.cpp` (using the existing
+`ggml_cpu_fp16_to_fp32`), add hc ops, and fix a SpacemiT RISC-V transpose.
+Shared changes are: a scheduler graph-reserve failure check (#26070), meta
+backend buffer-view resolution (#29266), the hc ops (declared in `ggml/include/ggml.h`, outside the fingerprinted tree),
+a `ggml_permute` stride-truncation fix (#29227), IQ1_M reference quantization
+building prefix sums once per block (#28706), and GGUF data-section alignment
+relative to the GGUF start (#28993). The added lines of the shared and
+generic CPU files contain no intrinsics, inline assembly or new `#if` guards.
+No change raises the baseline ARM ISA or alters KleidiAI kernel selection,
+packing or its callers.
+
+The accepted pair binds the full trees, including the accelerator changes:
+
+- ggml/src: `68d5bc369749e78545f50dd5107368ec7ee1874619794795cd142b0043c747f6`
+- kai: `64189fc613c1c4c3aaeeb6bb12b38d85dd6728cafd2261a5a88f1b77b10fe59c`
+
+Unknown source combinations, and scalable instructions outside the existing
+18 exact ELF function ranges, remain rejected.
+
+## Artifact and execution evidence
+
+The exact upstream SHA was built locally with the release helper's
+`android_armv8.2_2` CPU variant and NDK `28.2.13676358`. Before the pair was
+added, the production validator failed with the identical fingerprint pair
+reported by the release run. With the pair added, the unmodified instruction
+containment policy inspected 260,601 instructions. All 2,187 scalable
+instructions, the same count as v0.4.1, were contained in the existing 18
+functions. In this non-I8MM variant, `ggml_gemm_q1_0_4x8_q8_0` compiles to a
+single tail branch into the generic kernel and contains no `smmla`. The other
+three Q1_0 kernels use `sdot`, which the variant's `GGML_USE_DOTPROD` requires.
+The instruction counts are the reproducible evidence: an independent rebuild
+and the hosted `android-arm64-isa (v0.5.0)` job printed the same PASS line. The
+`libggml-cpu.so` bytes depend on the build path and are not recorded. An
+independent rebuild of `android_armv8.0_1` found all four Q1_0 kernels reduced
+to a branch into the generic code, and no `sdot`, `smmla` or FP16 vector
+arithmetic outside KleidiAI. This CPU artifact check does not claim full Vulkan/OpenCL packaging
+or hardware execution coverage.
+
+`Validate Wrapper` keeps the prior candidate lanes and adds exact v0.5.0 rows:
+
+- Android release ARMv8.2 CPU artifact build and source/instruction validation.
+- Compiled selector and Q4/Q8 scalar-reference compute under QEMU `cortex-a53`
+  and `max,sve=off,sme=off`, both normally and with guest
+  `GGML_KLEIDIAI_SME=1` to exercise the unsupported-feature fallback.
+- Windows ARM64 release preset (ClangCL, VS 2026 image) with the optimized
+  Kleidi CPU and the native wrapper contracts, built from the exact v0.5.0 SHA.
+
+Coverage gap: this is ISA-safety evidence, not numerical evidence for the new
+Q1_0 fast paths. The emulated dispatch test builds `armv8-a` (the Q1_0 kernels
+compile to their generic fallback) and exercises KleidiAI Q4/Q8 only. No gate
+here compares the DOTPROD Q1_0 kernels with the generic reference, and they
+only matter for Q1_0 models. The containment validator also checks SVE/SME
+only, so I8MM or DOTPROD in a lower variant was checked by hand for this
+release.
+
+Hosted results and an independent exact-head review must pass before merge and
+be linked from the PR. Physical Android and SME hardware execution is not
+performed here (N/A), and emulator evidence is separate from device
+qualification. Release publication and consumer adoption need their own
+approval.
diff --git a/tests/test_android_cpu_isa.py b/tests/test_android_cpu_isa.py
index 98b19ed..76a8453 100644
--- a/tests/test_android_cpu_isa.py
+++ b/tests/test_android_cpu_isa.py
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ def test_exact_reviewed_source_pairs_are_required(self):
                                  "c4dc92a7d95ebfad7f5f55e75be2ae773b7d95faf72a9581c9479c42bc41bca0",
                                  "dcb0f04ebb9654b1fe5ac7cc45737c79e62b116a2063ceda81a7ec1ddb1b20e2",
                                  "bf7ae6d2ea861ce6cd4b56afce154a45461df79b46c02e340d1adfe0075467b5",
+                                 "68d5bc369749e78545f50dd5107368ec7ee1874619794795cd142b0043c747f6",
                              ))
         self.assertEqual(audit.SOURCE_PAIRS, expected)
         for ggml, kai in expected:
diff --git a/tests/test_ci_scope.py b/tests/test_ci_scope.py
index 15521bc..40d81b4 100644
--- a/tests/test_ci_scope.py
+++ b/tests/test_ci_scope.py
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ def test_actual_workflow_routes_every_compiler_and_aggregate(self):
         self.assertIn('github.event.pull_request.base.sha || github.event.before',changes)
         self.assertIn('tools/ci_scope.py',changes)
         windows=workflow_job(workflow,'windows-arm64-kleidiai')
-        self.assertIn('upstream: [pinned, post-v0.4.0]',windows)
+        self.assertIn('upstream: [pinned, post-v0.4.0, v0.5.0]',windows)
         for filename in ('validate_wrapper.yml','validate_release_provenance.yml'):
             content=(ROOT/'.github/workflows'/filename).read_text()
             triggers=content.split('permissions:')[0]
diff --git a/tools/validate_android_cpu_isa.py b/tools/validate_android_cpu_isa.py
index 69835c5..5f35f9e 100644
--- a/tools/validate_android_cpu_isa.py
+++ b/tools/validate_android_cpu_isa.py
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@
 
 # Bind complete source subtree pairs, not independent hash sets: a new caller
 # or a different KleidiAI combination invalidates the dispatch audit.
-# Candidate audit evidence: docs/post_v040_qualification.md and
-# docs/v041_android_isa_qualification.md.
+# Candidate audit evidence: docs/post_v040_qualification.md,
+# docs/v041_android_isa_qualification.md and docs/v050_android_isa_qualification.md.
 SOURCE_PAIRS = frozenset({
     (  # llama.cpp v0.4.0 / KleidiAI v1.24.0
         "c4dc92a7d95ebfad7f5f55e75be2ae773b7d95faf72a9581c9479c42bc41bca0",
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@
         "bf7ae6d2ea861ce6cd4b56afce154a45461df79b46c02e340d1adfe0075467b5",
         "64189fc613c1c4c3aaeeb6bb12b38d85dd6728cafd2261a5a88f1b77b10fe59c",
     ),
+    (  # llama.cpp v0.5.0 7fe450e19305b828c199d602c23a8337aaa1f03b
+        "68d5bc369749e78545f50dd5107368ec7ee1874619794795cd142b0043c747f6",
+        "64189fc613c1c4c3aaeeb6bb12b38d85dd6728cafd2261a5a88f1b77b10fe59c",
+    ),
 })
 
 # Exact ELF STT_FUNC ranges; never allow by kai_* prefix or disassembly label.