A version bump is manual and easy to forget on a deployment — it happened twice on 2026-09-03, leaving a running instance whose footer/--version claimed a version stale by two deployments. ReleaseVersionConsistencyTest now compares build.gradle.kts against the top entry of releases.html so a forgotten bump, or notes written for a version nothing was built as, fails before an artifact can even be produced. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>