How editions work

Three things here carry a version, and they move on different clocks. The corpus is the data itself; an edition is a dated, citable snapshot of it, cut on a fixed rhythm so a document you quote in March still means something in November. The engine that serves it ships separately, on its own release tag, and the dossiers are cut from an edition and keep working after that edition is superseded.

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An edition publishes in the first week of every month. That is the whole rule. It is arithmetic rather than a plan, which is why the schedule below can be computed rather than promised — and why the next one is never more than four weeks away.

Each edition carries a digest: a SHA-256 over the observance corpus at the moment it was cut. Two artefacts with the same edition label and the same digest hold the same dates. Quote it back to us and we can tell you exactly what you were looking at.

The next twelve

Computed in your browser from today's date. No list is stored anywhere, so this page cannot go stale.

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Each edition lands somewhere in the 1st to the 7th of its month. It will not land outside that window, which is why the longest wait is always under four weeks.

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