Record book
Editions
Once a month the index freezes what it recorded for every tracked record — liveness and the evidence behind it, platform type, pricing, category, identifier counts and dates — into an edition. An edition is never rewritten: a correction is a new method version of the same month, and both stay.
Closed editions
| Edition · method | Records | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10 · ed-v22 Oct 2026 · 16:49 UTC to 16:51 UTC | 342,627 | Live capture |
| 2026-10 · ed-v12 Oct 2026 · 15:18 UTC to 15:20 UTC | 342,503 | Live capture |
An edition is keyed by the month it opens, and each of its method versions is captured once in that month — later passes add nothing. Where a month holds two method versions, the later one corrects the earlier, and the earlier stays as it was: a figure quoted from either still resolves to that figure.
What an edition holds
One row per record in the tracked pool at capture: the liveness gate’s state and the codes a live state rested on, when it last checked, the category, pricing, platform type and license as stored, how many identifiers of each kind the record held and whether the identity check had compared them, the first-shipped date and its source, the first-seen date and whether it was observed or backfilled, and the day the record entered the index. Not names, descriptions or links — those stay on the live record.
No edition is computed backwards from today’s rows: a month that was not captured has no edition. An edition rebuilt from a real backup is labelled reconstructed, with the backup’s date, and never passed off as an observation.
Corrections made to a record by hand are listed on Corrections. How a record gets into the index is on Methodology.