diff --git a/home/roles/development/default.nix b/home/roles/development/default.nix
index 9242a59..63f5821 100644
--- a/home/roles/development/default.nix
+++ b/home/roles/development/default.nix
@@ -8,15 +8,27 @@ let
   # Build beads from flake input with corrected vendorHash
   # The upstream default.nix has stale vendorHash for commits with server mode
   beadsRev = builtins.substring 0 8 (globalInputs.beads.rev or "unknown");
-  beadsPackage = pkgs.buildGoModule {
+
+  # nixpkgs ships Go 1.25.5, but beads' dolt deps require Go >= 1.25.6
+  go_1_25_6 = pkgs.go_1_25.overrideAttrs (old: rec {
+    version = "1.25.6";
+    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
+      url = "https://go.dev/dl/go${version}.src.tar.gz";
+      hash = "sha256-WMv3ceRNdt5vVtGeM7d9dFoeSJNAkih15GWFuXXCsFk=";
+    };
+  });
+  buildGoModule_1_25_6 = pkgs.buildGoModule.override { go = go_1_25_6; };
+
+  beadsPackage = buildGoModule_1_25_6 {
     pname = "beads";
-    version = "0.49.1-${beadsRev}";
+    version = "0.49.6-${beadsRev}";
     src = globalInputs.beads;
     subPackages = [ "cmd/bd" ];
     doCheck = false;
-    # Regenerated vendorHash for commit 93965b4a (has dolt server mode, Go 1.24)
-    vendorHash = "sha256-gwxGv8y4+1+k0741CnOYcyJPTJ5vTrynqPoO8YS9fbQ=";
-    nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.git ];
+    # Regenerated vendorHash for commit 6a51223b (dolt server mode, Go 1.25.6)
+    vendorHash = "sha256-9RMy0+ZBFg1BAl8Z0EuZK4XVm9QYVekS9i/1ErOIB/c=";
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.git pkgs.pkg-config ];
+    buildInputs = [ pkgs.icu ];
     meta = with lib; {
       description = "beads (bd) - An issue tracker designed for AI-supervised coding workflows";
       homepage = "https://github.com/steveyegge/beads";
@@ -52,8 +64,6 @@ let
       ./gastown-fix-validate-recipient.patch
       # Fix agentBeadToAddress to use title field for hq- prefixed beads
       ./gastown-fix-agent-bead-address-title.patch
-      # Fix crew/polecat home paths: remove incorrect /rig suffix
-      ./gastown-fix-role-home-paths.patch
       # Fix town root detection: don't map to Mayor (causes spurious mismatch warnings)
       ./gastown-fix-town-root-detection.patch
       # Statusline optimization: skip expensive beads queries for detached sessions