diff --git a/manifest b/manifest
index f4eb3bd5b4..07099c79db 100644
--- a/manifest
+++ b/manifest
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-C Add\sthe\sSQLITE_SHELL_EDITION\scompile-time\soption,\swhich\sif\sset\sto\sa\ndate\snumber\sof\sthe\sform\sYYYYMMDD\swill\stry\sto\sconfigure\sthe\sdefaults\nto\sbe\ssimilar\sto\sthe\slatest\srelease\sat\sor\sprior\sto\sthat\sdate.
-D 2026-07-17T00:27:13.979
+C Ensure\sthat\sa\shot\sjournal\sis\srolled\sback\sin\sthe\scase\swhere\sa\sprocess\sor\ssystem\scrash\sresulted\sin\sa\scorrupt\ssuper-journal\srecord\swhere\sthe\smagic\sand\slength\svalues\sare\scorrect\sbut\sthe\ssuper-journal\sname\sand\schecksum\sfields\sare\sboth\szeroed.\sFrorum\spost\s[forum:/info/2026-07-20T18:27:00Z\s|\s2026-07-20T18:27:00Z].
+D 2026-07-20T20:15:08.230
 F .fossil-settings/binary-glob 61195414528fb3ea9693577e1980230d78a1f8b0a54c78cf1b9b24d0a409ed6a x
 F .fossil-settings/empty-dirs dbb81e8fc0401ac46a1491ab34a7f2c7c0452f2f06b54ebb845d024ca8283ef1
 F .fossil-settings/ignore-glob 35175cdfcf539b2318cb04a9901442804be81cd677d8b889fcc9149c21f239ea
@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ F src/os_setup.h 8efc64eda6a6c2f221387eefc2e7e45fd5a3d5c8337a7a83519ba4fbd2957ae
 F src/os_unix.c 92a1773139e0c6206a927c7e1648b06287583570b6e253210a06ee3886739d39
 F src/os_win.c 1ad2a8679104249197a9ea10d287136484fdf70c1a245bdda393bbfca2033980
 F src/os_win.h 5e168adf482484327195d10f9c3bce3520f598e04e07ffe62c9c5a8067c1037b
-F src/pager.c a9fe20f18adfe7c3371cb68b42c723e9ce2a068a7558949216d9363359b267cf
+F src/pager.c 456a9c16269e31cc8301b4f5aec24aab1e3b38d40e209dfbd359ac9d4794baf8
 F src/pager.h 6137149346e6c8a3ddc1eeb40aee46381e9bc8b0fcc6dda8a1efde993c2275b8
 F src/parse.y d5a3c5b0277a441c38b35071c05e2b61ff5fc918a63309c809f4b6706179c320
 F src/pcache.c 588cc3c5ccaaadde689ed35ce5c5c891a1f7b1f4d1f56f6cf0143b74d8ee6484
@@ -1025,6 +1025,7 @@ F test/crash5.test 4aa55e7ac3c4bc511873e457aa65d2827d52da9b51e061511899dadcfe22b
 F test/crash6.test 4c56f1e40d0291e1110790a99807aa875b1647ba
 F test/crash7.test 1a194c4900a255258cf94b7fcbfd29536db572df
 F test/crash8.test 3a0c39c079b441a9b1da22e3edb58817f9dd330c4c3a7f9dd1f9f7c8368ea352
+F test/crash9.test 03082a11471c9468bc0b25440f55a13ee6d27b1b5183f5a64eb0eba887782b6f
 F test/crashM.test d95f59046fa749b0d0822edf18a717788c8f318d
 F test/crashtest1.c 09c1c7d728ccf4feb9e481671e29dda5669bbcc2
 F test/createtab.test 85cdfdae5c3de331cd888d6c66e1aba575b47c2e3c3cc4a1d6f54140699f5165
@@ -1511,7 +1512,7 @@ F test/pcache.test c8acbedd3b6fd0f9a7ca887a83b11d24a007972b
 F test/pcache2.test 8a801d2b8e4b0ebb99701f026a67a9e84634c8aa24799a842c44003b93250da1
 F test/pendingrace.test e99efc5ab3584da3dfc8cd6a0ec4e5a42214820574f5ea24ee93f1d84655f463
 F test/percentile.test fd78896fa882fa4fbf693640097859721f3629926c2ccf804af5bcb7001fd35b
-F test/permutations.test 1e3f732d91bcb9fa38665488e7584eade025fb1d2948559673e41c95a2f7c8ee
+F test/permutations.test fd0a0feffa0632f276b8199773347e34f0e7719e17771ec2c5489888d51d3bc5
 F test/pg_common.tcl 3b27542224db1e713ae387459b5d117c836a5f6e328846922993b6d2b7640d9f
 F test/pragma.test 7d07b7bb76e273215d6a20c4f83c3062cc28976c737ccb70a686025801e86c8f
 F test/pragma2.test e5d5c176360c321344249354c0c16aec46214c9f
@@ -2204,9 +2205,8 @@ F tool/warnings-clang.sh bbf6a1e685e534c92ec2bfba5b1745f34fb6f0bc2a362850723a9ee
 F tool/warnings.sh a554d13f6e5cf3760f041b87939e3d616ec6961859c3245e8ef701d1eafc2ca2
 F tool/win/sqlite.vsix deb315d026cc8400325c5863eef847784a219a2f
 F tool/winmain.c 00c8fb88e365c9017db14c73d3c78af62194d9644feaf60e220ab0f411f3604c
-P a508bb8f88e79742df314e51e6404c964547f811d9361233157cd7a748ddfadb
-Q +6924895d2cbc50971d8da1810423ad15c638dabc31b4f1083dd6076e20492ef4
-R 4761f5ab1cb756e05c9ec229bb0d463f
-U drh
-Z b1a6453ea1d389ff8f7867cc067b87ae
+P 1d84dc151bada74952819b5193a3d39706ef54b6a1b2d52aea04666b7904210f
+R 8c93044f747e571fd4f497805da83e02
+U dan
+Z d43d94ea92fa68a1e71775ba03427cda
 # Remove this line to create a well-formed Fossil manifest.
diff --git a/manifest.uuid b/manifest.uuid
index bf59b7e1a6..f18dd8d3c2 100644
--- a/manifest.uuid
+++ b/manifest.uuid
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1d84dc151bada74952819b5193a3d39706ef54b6a1b2d52aea04666b7904210f
+bf70dadc2d455844cfd3e759cc2f78bd38841f7362dde302af3dce0d20303935
diff --git a/src/pager.c b/src/pager.c
index 6d035445c3..88bfa01078 100644
--- a/src/pager.c
+++ b/src/pager.c
@@ -1334,7 +1334,7 @@ static int readSuperJournal(sqlite3_file *pJrnl, u64 nSuper, char **pzSuper){
         cksum -= zOut[u];
       }
     }
-    if( rc!=SQLITE_OK || cksum ){
+    if( rc!=SQLITE_OK || cksum || zOut[0]==0 ){
       /* If the checksum doesn't add up, then one or more of the disk sectors
       ** containing the super-journal filename is corrupted. This means
       ** definitely roll back, so just return SQLITE_OK and report a (nul)
diff --git a/test/crash9.test b/test/crash9.test
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..14458e6f2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/crash9.test
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+# 2026 July 21
+#
+# The author disclaims copyright to this source code.  In place of
+# a legal notice, here is a blessing:
+#
+#    May you do good and not evil.
+#    May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.
+#    May you share freely, never taking more than you give.
+#
+#***********************************************************************
+# This file implements regression tests for SQLite library.  
+#
+
+set testdir [file dirname $argv0]
+source $testdir/tester.tcl
+set testprefix crash9
+
+forcedelete test.db2
+
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# The following test is to hit the bug reported here:
+#
+# https://sqlite.org/forum/info/2026-07-20T18:27:00Z
+#
+# Essentially, when a super-journal record is appended to a journal file,
+# if the write() calls that set the super-journal magic values and length
+# succeed, but the calls that write the super-journal name and checksum
+# fail and end up writing zeroes into the file, then the super-journal
+# checksum appears to match (because 0 is the checksum for a zero length
+# string). This was confusing SQLite, preventing it from rolling the
+# journal back later on.
+#
+do_execsql_test 1.0 {
+  CREATE TABLE t1(x INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, y);
+  CREATE INDEX i1 ON t1(y);
+  WITH s(i) AS (
+    SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT i+1 FROM s WHERE i<10
+  )
+  INSERT INTO t1 SELECT i, randomblob(900) FROM s;
+
+  ATTACH 'test.db2' AS aux;
+  CREATE TABLE aux.t2(x, y);
+}
+db_save_and_close
+for {set ii 0} {$ii < 200} {incr ii} {
+  set iDelay 1
+
+  while 1 {
+    db_restore
+    set c [crashsql -delay $iDelay -file test.db-journal -seed $ii "
+      ATTACH 'test.db2' AS aux;
+      PRAGMA cache_size = 5;
+      BEGIN;
+      INSERT INTO aux.t2 VALUES(1, 2);
+      UPDATE t1 SET y=randomblob(901);
+      COMMIT;
+    "]
+
+    if {$c!="1 {child process exited abnormally}"} break
+
+    sqlite3 db test.db
+    do_execsql_test 1.1.$ii.$iDelay { PRAGMA integrity_check } ok
+    incr iDelay
+    db close
+  }
+}
+
+finish_test
+
+
+
diff --git a/test/permutations.test b/test/permutations.test
index b72e569bce..86f425bd1d 100644
--- a/test/permutations.test
+++ b/test/permutations.test
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ set alltests [test_set $alltests -exclude {
 set allquicktests [test_set $alltests -exclude {
   backup_ioerr.test corrupt.test
   corruptC.test crash.test crash2.test crash3.test crash4.test crash5.test
-  crash6.test crash7.test delete3.test e_fts3.test fts3rnd.test
+  crash6.test crash7.test crash9.test delete3.test e_fts3.test fts3rnd.test
   fkey_malloc.test fuzz.test fuzz3.test fuzz_malloc.test in2.test loadext.test
   misc7.test mutex2.test onefile.test pagerfault2.test 
   savepoint4.test savepoint6.test select9.test