diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8c32282..b5133fd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@ for what changed inside the apps it composes.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [1.15.0] - 2026-07-28
+
+### Fixed
+- **sso-manager's Directory data (every site/host/service/oauth-client resource and their relationships/LDAP-group associations) had no persistent volume** — `@simpleworkjs/orm` fell back to `./config/inventory.sqlite` (relative to the app's `/app` cwd) whenever `conf.orm` wasn't set, which sits in the container's ephemeral writable layer, not any mounted volume. Every container recreate (`docker compose up --build`, `down`/`up`, an image rebuild) silently wiped the entire Directory Management page. `setup.sh`'s generated `sso-secrets.js` (and the example template) now set `orm: { dialect: 'sqlite', storage: '/data/inventory.sqlite' }`, co-locating it with the already-persisted `sso-data` volume (where Redis lives). **Existing deployments**: this repo doesn't rewrite an operator's existing `config/sso-secrets.js` (re-running `setup.sh` leaves it untouched by design) — add the `orm` block above manually, and copy the container's current `/app/config/inventory.sqlite` to `/data/inventory.sqlite` *before* recreating the container, or the existing Directory data will be lost on the next recreate instead of migrated.
+
+### Bumped
+- sso-manager-node -> [v1.8.0](https://github.com/theta42/sso-manager-node/releases/tag/v1.8.0)
+
 ## [1.14.0] - 2026-07-28
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/config.example/sso-secrets.js.example b/config.example/sso-secrets.js.example
index a39e288..32c36cc 100644
--- a/config.example/sso-secrets.js.example
+++ b/config.example/sso-secrets.js.example
@@ -30,6 +30,16 @@ module.exports = {
 		jwtSecret: 'CHANGE-ME',                 // signs all tokens — keep secret
 		token_lifetime: { access_token: 3600, refresh_token: 2592000 },
 	},
+	// Without this, @simpleworkjs/orm falls back to './config/inventory.sqlite'
+	// (relative to the app's /app cwd) -- inside the container's ephemeral
+	// layer, not any mounted volume, so every Resource/site/host/service/oauth
+	// row (the whole Directory Management page) would be silently wiped on
+	// every container recreate. /data is already a persisted volume (Redis
+	// lives there too), so this just co-locates the sqlite file with it.
+	orm: {
+		dialect: 'sqlite',
+		storage: '/data/inventory.sqlite',
+	},
 
 	// ── Orchestrator-only (ignored by the app; read by setup.sh + bootstrap) ──
 	stack: {
diff --git a/setup.sh b/setup.sh
index 37d5a22..c7e0270 100755
--- a/setup.sh
+++ b/setup.sh
@@ -292,6 +292,16 @@ module.exports = {
 		jwtSecret: $(js_str "$CFG_JWT_SECRET"),
 		token_lifetime: { access_token: 3600, refresh_token: 2592000 },
 	},
+	// Without this, @simpleworkjs/orm falls back to './config/inventory.sqlite'
+	// relative to the app's /app cwd -- inside the container's ephemeral layer,
+	// not any mounted volume -- so every Resource/site/host/service/oauth row
+	// (the whole Directory Management page) would be silently wiped on every
+	// container recreate. /data is already a persisted volume (Redis lives
+	// there too), so this just co-locates the sqlite file with it.
+	orm: {
+		dialect: 'sqlite',
+		storage: '/data/inventory.sqlite',
+	},
 
 	// ── Orchestrator-only (ignored by the app) ───────────────────────────────
 	stack: {
diff --git a/sso-manager-node b/sso-manager-node
index 6988383..782ef69 160000
--- a/sso-manager-node
+++ b/sso-manager-node
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 69883836e1f4c46b246ff26bd5d29fe272db54d7
+Subproject commit 782ef69fb8865e002f249c02ac421dafa3f7f95b