Release 1.11.0: cut the changelog, and stop the release notes naming people

[Cipher208]

Prepares v1.11.0. No tag yet — the tag is pushed after this merges, and that is
what triggers PyPI.

The changelog

[Unreleased] → ## [1.11.0] - 2026-10-08. It had accumulated 18 ### headings
against 5 canonical ones — four ### Added, five ### Changed, three ### Fixed —
because each was appended when written. Merged into Keep a Changelog order (Added,
Changed, Removed, Fixed, Security) with all 57 items kept, verified item-for-item
rather than by eye.

Three entries had also been written without a newline before the next - **, so two
items each rendered as one paragraph. Fixed.

The leak in the release plumbing

This is the part that matters beyond the version bump:

• release.yml used generate_release_notes: true. That composes the body from PR
  titles and author handles — it is exactly where the dead draft's closing line
  "@Cipher208 and Murat" came from. The body now comes from the CHANGELOG section for
  the tag, and the step fails when that section is missing: a tag with no written
  notes should stop the release rather than quietly generate a list of names.
• release-drafter.yml carried @$AUTHOR in change-template and a $CONTRIBUTORS
  block. Both removed; the drafter stays as a working aid.
• The dead v1.10.0 draft — never tagged, body generated — is deleted.
• bug_report.yml asked for pip show mcp-ariel-memory, which resolves nothing: the
  distribution is a-memory, and mcp-ariel-memory is one of three console scripts.
  Anyone following the form got "Package(s) not found". Now pip show a-memory.

Verified before this commit

• wheel — 276 files, no tests/, docs/, .github/ or logs
• sdist — 727 files, carries tests and docs as it should, and no venv
• the wheel is built from the sdist, so the sdist is self-sufficient
• installed into a fresh venv: config.yaml present, all 23 top-level config
  keys load, the entry point imports, 3 of 3 console scripts installed
• YAML of all four touched config files parses; a missing-version-section negative test
  exits non-zero
• the extracted release body for v1.11.0 is 157 lines and contains zero person names

ruff, ruff format, the full pytest gate — clean on commit.

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