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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ runs StarForth as its sole userspace runtime. No libc. No OS. Just stone and nec
 
 **Try it in your browser:** [starshipos-f18.com](https://starshipos-f18.com/) — a StarshipOS
 machine of your own, booted to `[zuse@Hera] ok>`, thrown away when you leave. **Releases:**
-[v4.0.0-alpha.4](https://gitea.starshipos-f18.org/rajames/LithosAnanke/releases) (pre-release),
+[v4.0.0-alpha.4](https://gitea.starshipos-f18.org/rajames/LithosAnanke/releases),
 the kernel `4.0.0-alpha.4` with the StarForth engine `3.2.0`.
 
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diff --git a/docs/fabric/FABRIC-3.md b/docs/fabric/FABRIC-3.md
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--- a/docs/fabric/FABRIC-3.md
+++ b/docs/fabric/FABRIC-3.md
@@ -6513,3 +6513,37 @@ and memorize frequently so we can pick up where we left off").
   `[zuse@Hera] ok>`; growth; the real Zuse on a second stick; the fixed screen. The alpha.4
   Downloads page (#126) can offer the PC stick.
 
+### 18. A clean tree for alpha.5: LFS, the build's own files, alpha.4 final (2026-11-11)
+
+- **LFS, ruled** (Captain Bob): the objects of 3,944 LFS pointers were never on the server -- every one
+  from the initial commit, `a5ed8c3d` (2026-08-01): 3,827 phase-1 logs under
+  `docs/working/archive/legacy/phase-1`, 3 under `docs/working/archive/historical`, 106 DoE CSVs, three
+  `.log` files at or near the top. No copy exists anywhere: "they can be trimmed out". **Built:** the
+  3,939 removed (`aec7ddb5`); the 5 LaTeX build logs under `docs/patent` kept, under the legal hold; a
+  committed `.lfsconfig` excludes every one of these paths from fetch, so older commits check out and
+  `git lfs fetch --all` runs without 404s. Every LFS pointer left in the tree has its object on the
+  server; `git lfs fsck` OK. Earlier the same day `06f1d41a` had moved 146 logs committed as plain text
+  (the LFS filter had been off) into LFS.
+- **The build's own files, ruled** (Captain Bob, #145): `v3/include/version.h` untracked -- every build
+  writes it, with a timestamp and the last build's ISA, and the committed copy said `2.1.0`; the
+  `.gitignore` entry for it named `include/version.h`, the path before the move to `v3/`, and matched
+  nothing. `capsules/BLOCK_MAP.md` keeps being tracked, without `mkcapsule`'s timestamp: it changes only
+  with the capsules (two runs byte-identical). **Built:** `90c5c140`. A **signed** build still rewrites
+  BLOCK_MAP.md's Signed column (the committed copy is an unsigned build's): open, to rule.
+- **My error, found setting up alpha.5:** six places still put `version.h` back with `git checkout`,
+  and git refuses the whole checkout when one path is unknown. `scripts/nightly.sh images` (`set -e`)
+  would have ended there -- the nightly's images, publish and proofs, and `release.yml`'s images, docs
+  and Gitea release; acceptance does not run `images`, so it passed. `scripts/check_images.sh` and the
+  two demo scripts would silently have put nothing back. I had not searched for every use of the file
+  before untracking it. **Fixed** (Captain Bob: yes): `9415d7ed`.
+- **Acceptance, ruled again** (Captain Bob): "You are NOT to run acceptance tests in background EVER!"
+  -- I had run stages detached; one run was stopped and is kept, labelled. And: "We track all logs and
+  all CSV's always as evidence" -- passing, failing and stopped runs alike.
+- **Accepted** (`9415d7ed`, `d6846b34`): one stage at a time in the foreground, `scripts/nightly.sh`;
+  538/538 on the three and the stick loaded high, `word_count=318`, `dict_hash 0x8c92508f748f99cf`;
+  test-32 39 programs, 0 failures; `nightly.sh images` built PC, RASPI and MILKV and left the tree as
+  committed. No tracked file changed across the builds.
+- **alpha.4 released as final** (Captain Bob, "the only one that doesn't break my rules"): its Gitea
+  release was a pre-release; now it is not. The tag stays on `93828e0e`, its 13 assets unchanged;
+  moving a tag was not an option (tags are sacred), and today's work ships as alpha.5.
+