diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Each release entry covers the motivation, new features, breaking changes (if any
 
 | Version                                                                  | Blog post                                                                                                       |
 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [v1.8.1](https://fulll.github.io/github-code-search/blog/release-v1-8-1) | Fix silent hang after pagination bar — concurrency cap + progress bar for line-number resolution                |
 | [v1.8.0](https://fulll.github.io/github-code-search/blog/release-v1-8-0) | Purple TUI theme, fetch progress bar, position indicator, line-anchored file links, Esc to close help           |
 | [v1.7.0](https://fulll.github.io/github-code-search/blog/release-v1-7-0) | Shell completions (bash/zsh/fish) + extended syntax highlighting (PHP, C/C++, Swift, Terraform/HCL, Dockerfile) |
 | [v1.6.1](https://fulll.github.io/github-code-search/blog/release-v1-6-1) | Fix TUI only displaying first text fragment when a file has multiple matches                                    |
diff --git a/docs/blog/index.md b/docs/blog/index.md
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@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Full release notes and changelogs are always available on
 
 | Release                    | Highlights                                                                                                 |
 | -------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [v1.8.1](./release-v1-8-1) | Fix silent hang after pagination bar — concurrency cap + progress bar for line-number resolution           |
 | [v1.8.0](./release-v1-8-0) | Purple TUI theme, fetch progress bar, position indicator, line-anchored file links, Esc to close help      |
 | [v1.7.0](./release-v1-7-0) | Shell completions (bash/zsh/fish), extended syntax highlighting (PHP, C/C++, Swift, Terraform, Dockerfile) |
 | [v1.6.1](./release-v1-6-1) | Fix TUI rendering only the first fragment for multi-match files                                            |
diff --git a/docs/blog/release-v1-8-1.md b/docs/blog/release-v1-8-1.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+---
+title: "What's new in v1.8.1"
+description: "Bug fix: the CLI no longer hangs silently for up to 2 minutes after the pagination bar, especially on slow or mobile networks."
+date: 2026-03-09
+---
+
+# What's new in github-code-search v1.8.1
+
+> Full release notes: <https://github.com/fulll/github-code-search/releases/tag/v1.8.1>
+
+## Highlights
+
+### Fix: silent hang after pagination bar on slow networks
+
+After the `Fetching results from GitHub…` progress bar completed, the CLI could
+freeze silently for **up to 2 minutes** before the interactive TUI appeared.
+No spinner, no message — the terminal looked stuck. The hang was consistently
+worse on tethering or congested networks and could sometimes be resolved by
+re-running on a better connection.
+
+#### Root cause
+
+The GitHub Code Search API returns only fragment-relative character indices —
+there are no absolute line numbers in the response. To display accurate line
+numbers in the TUI, `github-code-search` fetches the raw content of each
+matched file from `raw.githubusercontent.com` after pagination completes.
+
+Two compounding issues caused the hang:
+
+1. **No concurrency limit.** With 200+ unique files in the results, 200+
+   HTTP requests fired simultaneously via `Promise.all`. On a saturated
+   network this overwhelmed the connection pool and caused the event loop
+   to stall.
+
+2. **No progress feedback.** The user saw nothing between the end of the
+   pagination bar and the TUI — no indication that work was still in
+   progress.
+
+#### What changed
+
+- **Concurrency capped at 20** parallel requests (new `concurrentMap` helper
+  in `api-utils.ts`). This dramatically reduces the load on the network
+  connection and prevents the stall pattern on mobile networks.
+- **Per-request 5 s timeout** via `AbortSignal.timeout`. If a raw file
+  fetch stalls, it is silently abandoned and line numbers fall back to
+  fragment-relative values — results still appear, just without precise
+  absolute line numbers for that file.
+- **New progress bar** shown on stderr during the resolution phase:
+
+  ```
+    Resolving line numbers… ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░  23/67
+  ```
+
+  The line is erased cleanly before the TUI launches, leaving a clean
+  terminal.
+
+**Before:** silent freeze, up to 2 minutes on tethering.  
+**After:** steady progress bar, TUI opens within seconds on any network.
+
+---
+
+## Upgrade
+
+```bash
+github-code-search upgrade
+```
+
+Or download the latest binary directly from the
+[GitHub Releases page](https://github.com/fulll/github-code-search/releases/tag/v1.8.1).
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
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--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "github-code-search",
-  "version": "1.8.0",
+  "version": "1.8.1",
   "description": "Interactive GitHub code search with per-repo aggregation",
   "keywords": [
     "bun",