LH033 checkpoint, 30 October 2026
Working record, unreviewed. Read at 06:35 UTC (Censys only); Censys's snapshot says it was refreshed at 06:15 UTC. Tables: data/read-2026-10-30T0635Z/tables.json. Completed days run from day 0 (21 October) to day 8 (29 October). Written by the scheduled daily run. The interim checkpoint, which by the brief uses day 7 from the 29 October read, is interim-2026-10-30.md.
Revisions
None: days 0 to 7 are identical, field for field, to the read of 29 October.
Censys: share of version-reporting services in each fixed branch counted as patched (observation, its classification)
| Branch | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Services in branch, day 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.2 | 22.1% | 41.2% | 46.1% | 48.1% | 49.6% | 51.2% | 53.0% | 58.3% | 5.78 million |
| 8.3 | 23.8% | 42.2% | 45.9% | 47.8% | 49.0% | 50.6% | 52.4% | 57.4% | 7.57 million |
| 8.4 | 35.3% | 58.5% | 62.3% | 63.5% | 64.5% | 66.0% | 67.8% | 74.2% | 3.13 million |
| 8.5 | 36.1% | 70.5% | 73.3% | 74.5% | 75.7% | 77.5% | 78.8% | 82.9% | 3.42 million |
Day 8 moved more than any day since day 2: 4.1 to 6.4 points per branch, against 1.3 to 1.8 on each of days 5 to 7. The count of services in 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 fell on the same day (8.2 from 6.01 to 5.78 million, 8.3 from 7.86 to 7.57, 8.4 from 3.24 to 3.13), and fewer services reported a version overall (below). How much of the rise is services moving to a fixed release and how much is unpatched services leaving the count, this instrument does not say; no cause is read.
Censys: the tail no fix reaches
Day 8: 23.3 million services on branches PHP did not fix (24.4 million on day 7), 54.0 per cent of the 43.2 million that reported a version (44.9 million on day 7). Services reporting no version: 68.2 million, 61.2 per cent of the 111.4 million PHP services counted.
Chart
Redrawn from this read; checked in light and dark, no collision.
From studies/LH033/checkpoints/2026-10-30.md in the repository, last changed 30 October 2026.