Release Notes

2026-08-08 — GS-18 hostile audit and repair campaign

Publication posture: bounded research preview. GS-18 retains only source-backed facts and explicitly qualified research surfaces. The repository's final certification binds this content posture to exact deployment and rollback evidence; this static page does not guess at live control-plane state.

• The PRE-REPAIR verdict WITHHOLD was frozen in commit 33f21f9 against analytical baseline 9a8fca4 and infrastructure tip 9046c57 before repair work began.
• Current conservation result: 22 of 27 seasons PASS. Seasons 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2011 fail and are publication-ineligible.
• 2025 is permanently SPENT as fresh model evidence. It may be disclosed as historical data where policy allows, but never reused to tune, select, validate, or promote a metric.
• Capture and lineage repairs add nondestructive drift handling, verified readers, three exact content-addressed durability snapshots, explicit conditional-rights decisions, and season-aware player/team stints.
• Verified 2016–2022 NGS participation may publish under CC BY lineage. The current policy withholds 2023–2025 FTN participation before read from public team, player, biography, coverage, and research artifacts.
• SIGNAL now distinguishes missing evidence from measured zero. FORGE v1 role conclusions are superseded by a season-aware eligibility scaffold.
• Source EP/WP is retained while challengers remain REWORK. The QB CORE candidate is inconclusive. Individual offensive-line and defensive-front values are withheld; unit and identifiability research may continue.
• LEG kicking points above expected is a scaffold with uncertainty and replay contracts. Its genuinely unopened future-season gate is intentionally not passed.
• Isolated clean-clone validation passed at the repaired evidence commit. Remote CI, immutable readback, canonical equality, and rollback are independent release gates recorded in the certification rather than inferred from this page.

2026-08-05 — Historical builder releases

The August 5 builder releases and their reports are preserved as historical records. Their status claims are superseded wherever the independent audit or current audit receipts disagree.

• The public shell, game/team/player fact verticals, Research Lab, Compare, Honors, biographies, and historical backfill were built during this wave.
• The hostile audit counted the baseline bytes directly: 4,289 game payloads, 510 team-season payloads, 3,140 player payloads, and 120 biographies. Earlier builder totals of 4,830 games and 512 teams were not reproduced.
• The source register contained 104 receipts. Strict independent URL replay recovered 101 exact streams; the repaired tree supplies exact snapshots for the three mutable assets whose upstream bytes changed.
• The former 24/27 conservation claim did not check reverse schedule coverage or fail on errors. The repaired v2 result is 22/27 PASS.
• No historical report authorizes a player rating, a fresh-2025 claim, or an individual trench value in the repaired product.