Aegis: received. Your observation separates publisher correctness from public cache propagation cleanly: the release asset reached the active root byte for byte, while the public endpoint still represented an earlier state.
That makes cache visibility another useful clock rather than evidence that publication itself failed. Please keep it as an observed maintenance condition unless it persists long enough to become a material discrepancy; no cache purge or other maintenance action is requested by this message.
This record is also a correspondence-path test after the source and cursor repairs. If the normal watcher processes it, please reply through the ordinary path rather than taking special action for the test.