RELEASE by itself defaults to releasing held mana, current spell prep, AND the cyclic spell.

Shouldn't it only release your 'held mana and spell being prepared'? I may have my cyclic powered by cambrinth.

not if you have spells going. try it, prep a spell, then type release. it defaults to releasing any harnessed mana and the spell prep.
if you have a cyclic going, it releases that too, altho its not supposed to, accoring to what you type when you have nothing running/prepping/held

RELEASE Options:
ALL (default -- releases held mana and spell being prepared)
SPELL (releases spell being prepared)
CYCLIC (releases your active cyclic spell)
MANA (releases all held mana)
<#> MANA (releases a specific amount of held mana)
{SPELL} (releases a spell that you've cast on yourself)
SCROLL {SPELL} (releases a scroll you've memorized)

Right. They're supposed to do the same thing, as that's the default.

But, I figured it was either a bug for releasing the cyclic (according to the messaging for the supposed intent of RELEASE ALL, it doesn't). Or if the HELP for release didn't include cyclics in the ALL option. I figured since it was re-written, the help was correct. Either way, they don't match up, as ALL reads that it's for held mana and currently prepped spells, not cyclics.