diff --git a/plugins/memory/holographic/store.py b/plugins/memory/holographic/store.py
index 67628102d..7ffc7db0f 100644
--- a/plugins/memory/holographic/store.py
+++ b/plugins/memory/holographic/store.py
@@ -205,7 +205,14 @@ class MemoryStore:
             if not query:
                 return []
 
-            params: list = [query, min_trust]
+            # FTS5 AND-joins tokens by default, which zeroes out recall on
+            # natural-language queries. Reuse the retriever's sanitizer
+            # (stopword drop + OR-join content tokens). Imported lazily to
+            # avoid a store->retrieval import cycle.
+            from plugins.memory.holographic.retrieval import FactRetriever
+
+            match_query = FactRetriever._sanitize_fts_query(query)
+            params: list = [match_query, min_trust]
             category_clause = ""
             if category is not None:
                 category_clause = "AND f.category = ?"
diff --git a/scripts/release.py b/scripts/release.py
index 693465696..de1f0fbec 100755
--- a/scripts/release.py
+++ b/scripts/release.py
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ ACP_REGISTRY_MANIFEST = REPO_ROOT / "acp_registry" / "agent.json"
 
 # Auto-extracted from noreply emails + manual overrides
 AUTHOR_MAP = {
+    "cyb3rwr3n@users.noreply.github.com": "cyb3rwr3n",  # PR #11333 salvage (sanitize FTS5 queries for natural-language recall in holographic memory)
     "186512915+lEWFkRAD@users.noreply.github.com": "lEWFkRAD",  # PR #53848 salvage (stream the MoA aggregator response to the user)
     "193368749+jimmyjohansson84@users.noreply.github.com": "jimmyjohansson84",  # PR #27123 salvage (Kanban unknown-skill warn-instead-of-crash; #27136)
     "gxalong@gmail.com": "Jeffgithub0029",  # PR #28558 salvage (chunk Telegram text *after* MarkdownV2/HTML formatting so escaping inflation can't push a send over the 4096 UTF-16 limit; #28557)