diff --git a/Release-Notes/v1.1.md b/Release-Notes/v1.1.md
index 836d3ef..40d5101 100644
--- a/Release-Notes/v1.1.md
+++ b/Release-Notes/v1.1.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Maintenance release from the 2026-09-24 review (`reports/maintenance-2026-09-24.
 ### Security
 - Rate limits now apply to each client. nginx resolves the real client IP through Cloudflare → NPM (`set_real_ip_from` + `real_ip_recursive`). Before this, every request looked like it came from NPM, so all users shared one login limit.
 - ntfy alerts show the real client IP (`X-Real-IP` from nginx). They no longer use the first `X-Forwarded-For` entry, which the client controls.
-- Python dependency updates:
+- Python dependency updates (pydantic now pinned at 2.13.5):
   - PyJWT 2.15.0 (fixes an auth bypass)
   - anyio 4.15.1
   - fastapi 0.141.1 / starlette 1.7.0
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Maintenance release from the 2026-09-24 review (`reports/maintenance-2026-09-24.
 - Docker log rotation on all services: json-file, 10 MB × 3.
 
 ### Fixes
+- **Timer actions returned 500** after the FastAPI 0.141 upgrade. The session queries didn't load `Subject.options`, which `DailySessionOut` serializes. Old FastAPI silently swallowed the failed lazy-load; the new one raises it. Now eager-loaded in `sessions.py` (get/timer) and `dashboard.py`.
 - The meeting alert catch-up window fix (`8e92ae6`) is now deployed.
 
 ### Known / accepted
diff --git a/backend/app/routers/dashboard.py b/backend/app/routers/dashboard.py
index f3fd44e..ef234d6 100644
--- a/backend/app/routers/dashboard.py
+++ b/backend/app/routers/dashboard.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ async def get_dashboard(tv_token: int, db: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db)):
             DailySession.session_date == date.today(),
             DailySession.is_active == True,
         )
-        .options(selectinload(DailySession.current_block))
+        .options(selectinload(DailySession.current_block).selectinload(ScheduleBlock.subject).selectinload(Subject.options))
         .limit(1)
     )
     session = session_result.scalar_one_or_none()
diff --git a/backend/app/routers/sessions.py b/backend/app/routers/sessions.py
index b5fe401..22bf73b 100644
--- a/backend/app/routers/sessions.py
+++ b/backend/app/routers/sessions.py
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ async def get_session(
         select(DailySession)
         .join(Child)
         .where(DailySession.id == session_id, Child.user_id == current_user.id)
-        .options(selectinload(DailySession.current_block).selectinload(ScheduleBlock.subject))
+        .options(selectinload(DailySession.current_block).selectinload(ScheduleBlock.subject).selectinload(Subject.options))
     )
     session = result.scalar_one_or_none()
     if not session:
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ async def timer_action(
         select(DailySession)
         .join(Child)
         .where(DailySession.id == session_id, Child.user_id == current_user.id)
-        .options(selectinload(DailySession.current_block).selectinload(ScheduleBlock.subject))
+        .options(selectinload(DailySession.current_block).selectinload(ScheduleBlock.subject).selectinload(Subject.options))
     )
     session = result.scalar_one_or_none()
     if not session:
diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index d0f6eda..6c3cecc 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ PyJWT==2.15.0
 cryptography==50.0.1
 passlib[bcrypt]==1.7.4
 bcrypt==3.2.2
+pydantic==2.13.5
 pydantic-settings==2.5.2
 alembic==1.20.0
 Mako==1.4.3
diff --git a/reports/maintenance-2026-09-24.md b/reports/maintenance-2026-09-24.md
index 5ca66da..41bb211 100644
--- a/reports/maintenance-2026-09-24.md
+++ b/reports/maintenance-2026-09-24.md
@@ -156,6 +156,10 @@ This section was first blocked on backups. The user then asked for the HIGH find
 | homeschool_backend | homeschool-backend | sha256:51b49afb4ec4… |
 | homeschool_frontend | homeschool-frontend | sha256:f9a737699cda… |
 
+### Post-deploy regression
+
+After the HIGH deploy, `POST /api/sessions/{id}/timer` returned **500 on every call**: 8 failures, 0 successes, starting 06:43 UTC. FastAPI 0.141 raises on a failed lazy-load of `current_block.subject.options` during response serialization, where 0.115 silently skipped it. The first smoke test didn't cover timer actions. Fixed in v1.1.0 by eager-loading `Subject.options` in `sessions.py` and `dashboard.py`. The smoke test now covers the full timer lifecycle, the TV dashboard with an active block, schedule/subject writes, and every parameterless GET route (from the OpenAPI spec).
+
 ### Post-update scan (trivy HIGH/CRITICAL)
 
 | Image | Before | After |