Merge branch '2.x' into 3.1

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: cowtowncoder

release-notes/VERSION-2.x

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Versions: 2.x
 
 No changes since 2.22
 
+2.22.3 (21-Sep-2026)
 2.22.2 (16-Aug-2026)
 2.22.1 (07-Jul-2026)
 2.22.0 (31-May-2026)