@@ -50,12 +50,12 @@ Editing ``__version__`` by hand without also moving :file:`CITATION.cff`'s
 ``tests/project/test_bump_version.py``'s
 ``RepositoryCitationTests.test_the_citation_file_names_the_packaged_version``
 (``:494-514``) asserts the two agree, and ``create-release.yml``'s
-``unit-tests`` job (``:467-481``) calls ``unit-tests.yml`` with
+``unit-tests`` job (``:579-595``) calls ``unit-tests.yml`` with
 ``gate-only: true``, which runs the **full** suite rather than the tiered
 subset an ordinary push runs (its ``gate`` job, ``unit-tests.yml:1776-1846``).
 That gate runs whenever a release will -- a moved ``__version__`` is exactly
 what makes ``version_check``'s evidence read "not yet published" -- and every
-publishing job requires it to have succeeded (``:500,685,850,1085``), so a
+publishing job requires it to have succeeded (``:619,806,972,1208``), so a
 citation left behind fails the gate well before any approval is requested.
 Either run the script, or move both fields by hand in the same commit.
 
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ process: the ``changelog`` job (``unit-tests.yml:1624-1643``) fails outright if
 ``CHANGELOG.md`` has drifted from its source entry under
 :file:`docs/source/changelog/`, and the release-body step warns, without
 failing, if that entry's heading still reads "unreleased"
-(``create-release.yml:554-555``). Both enforce what the changelog convention
+(``create-release.yml:675-676``). Both enforce what the changelog convention
 already asks for.
 
 Two Ways to Start a Release
@@ -79,12 +79,12 @@ neither is a workaround for the other:
 ``push: tags: ['v*']``
    Pushing a tag matching ``v*`` yourself. This chooses **which commit** to
    release, not which version: ``version_check``'s checkout
-   (``:216-220``) pins ``ref: ${{ github.sha }}``, which on this trigger is
+   (``:298-302``) pins ``ref: ${{ github.sha }}``, which on this trigger is
    the commit the pushed tag points at, and reads ``pcapkit.__version__`` out
-   of *that* tree (``:245``). Every downstream tag and release name is built
+   of *that* tree (``:327``). Every downstream tag and release name is built
    from that output -- ``v${{ needs.version_check.outputs.PCAPKIT_VERSION }}``
-   is ``github``'s ``tag_name`` at ``:596`` and the release ``pypi`` and
-   ``conda`` upload to at ``:992`` and ``:1338``, always from
+   is ``github``'s ``tag_name`` at ``:717`` and the release ``pypi`` and
+   ``conda`` upload to at ``:1115`` and ``:1462``, always from
    ``PCAPKIT_VERSION``, never from ``github.ref_name`` -- so the version
    actually released is whatever ``__version__`` says on the tagged commit,
    not the name of the tag that was pushed. The two agree only if the tag
@@ -124,6 +124,13 @@ conclude ``success`` is keyed on its own ``github.run_id`` instead
 (`#1705 <https://github.com/JarryShaw/PyPCAPKit/issues/1705>`__). It releases
 nothing, so it neither waits behind a release nor displaces a run waiting
 there; only a newer run that may release, reading ``main``'s newer tip, can.
+A Vendor Update that concluded ``success`` with ``vendor-update`` skipped --
+its Unit Tests verdict was for another commit -- releases nothing either since
+`#1748 <https://github.com/JarryShaw/PyPCAPKit/issues/1748>`__: the
+``vendor_update`` job reads that run's jobs (``:230-264``), and
+``version_check`` skips. The group cannot see that, so such a run still joins
+the ref's group; if it displaces a pending run, that release waits for the
+next Vendor Update on ``main``.
 
 One Commit per Release
 ----------------------
@@ -137,19 +144,26 @@ days later, and tagged ``main``'s tip ``2c0008c3c`` as both ``v1.5.0b9`` and
 the default branch, and ``tag`` pulled ``main`` before tagging.
 
 * On ``workflow_run``, where ``github`` creates the ``v*`` tag, it passes
-  ``target_commitish`` ``github.sha`` (``:609``); on a ``v*`` push the tag
+  ``target_commitish`` ``github.sha`` (``:730``); on a ``v*`` push the tag
   already exists and it passes none. Either way it then checks that the tag
   names that commit.
-* ``tag`` cuts ``conda-<version>+0`` at that commit (``:722-749``) before it
+* ``tag`` cuts ``conda-<version>+0`` at that commit (``:844-871``) before it
   reads ``main`` at all; the :file:`conda/build` reset is a separate commit on
-  top of ``main`` (``:771-824``), described under `Precautions`_.
+  top of ``main`` (``:893-946``), described under `Precautions`_.
 * ``pypi`` and ``conda`` check out that commit and, before building, check
   that every tag they publish under names it, as ``tag`` does for the ``v*``
-  tag. A run created for a *later* commit of the same version therefore fails
-  with an ``::error`` instead of publishing a second tree under that version;
-  a partial release is finished by re-running the run that tagged it.
+  tag. A run created for a *later* commit of the same version therefore never
+  publishes a second tree under that version. ``version_check`` resolves the
+  ``v*`` tag the same way first (``:534-552``), and off a ``v*`` ref a tag
+  naming another commit skips the gate and all four publishers
+  (`#1748 <https://github.com/JarryShaw/PyPCAPKit/issues/1748>`__):
+  ``Release status`` posts a ``::notice`` if that release is complete, or a
+  ``::warning`` naming both commits and what is missing (``:1607-1617``), and
+  the run stays green. A ``v*`` push of such a version still fails with the
+  check's ``::error``. A partial release is finished by re-running the run that
+  tagged it.
 * ``pypi`` and ``conda`` attach their files with ``gh release upload``
-  (``:985-1022``, ``:1333-1368``), not ``action-gh-release``, which calls Update
+  (``:1108-1145``, ``:1457-1492``), not ``action-gh-release``, which calls Update
   a release before every upload (3.0.2's ``src/github.ts:631-683``). A file
   the release already has is left alone
   (`#1640 <https://github.com/JarryShaw/PyPCAPKit/issues/1640>`__): the action
@@ -243,11 +257,11 @@ The owner's choice on `#1634
 the release with a GitHub App installation token, which Create a release
 accepts for a target that changes a workflow file when it has the "Workflows"
 repository permission (write). "Mint the release App's token"
-(``create-release.yml:569-577``) runs
+(``create-release.yml:690-698``) runs
 ``actions/create-github-app-token@v3`` with ``permission-contents: write`` and
 ``permission-workflows: write`` and no ``owner`` or ``repositories``, so the
 token is "scoped to only the current repository" and revoked in the action's
-``post`` step (v3.3.0's README). Only Create Release spends it (``:613``).
+``post`` step (v3.3.0's README). Only Create Release spends it (``:734``).
 While ``vars.RELEASE_APP_CLIENT_ID`` is unset, which reads as "an empty
 string", the step skips and Create Release spends ``GITHUB_TOKEN``, so the
 workflow keeps working, refusals included, until the App exists. A PAT would
@@ -275,15 +289,15 @@ One-time setup:
 Unlike ``GITHUB_TOKEN``'s, the App's tag starts a tag-push run. It would rerun
 the release test gate, ask for a second approval and race the first run's
 uploads from another concurrency group, so ``version_check`` skips a ``push``
-whose ``github.actor_id`` is ``vars.RELEASE_APP_BOT_ID`` (``:210-212``), and
+whose ``github.actor_id`` is ``vars.RELEASE_APP_BOT_ID`` (``:290-294``), and
 ``release_status`` reports it with ``::notice title=Nothing to release``
-(``:1440-1442``). A tag pushed by a person runs as before. Whether a tag made
+(``:1569-1571``). A tag pushed by a person runs as before. Whether a tag made
 through the Releases API fires ``push``, and with the bot as actor, is
 unmeasured; if not, the guard never matches and the cost is one approval to
 reject.
 
 A refused Create Release (404, or 403 "Resource not accessible by
-integration") is explained by "Explain a refused release tag" (``:646-658``)
+integration") is explained by "Explain a refused release tag" (``:767-779``)
 according to the token spent: with ``GITHUB_TOKEN`` it lists the setup above;
 with the App's, it points at the App's permissions and installation. For a
 final release, first delete any draft ``v<version>`` the refused run left:
@@ -432,8 +446,8 @@ Only ``github-release`` carries a required reviewer; ``conda-tag``,
 removed on `#887 <https://github.com/JarryShaw/PyPCAPKit/issues/887>`__.
 What still makes one approval mean *the whole release* is the ``needs:``
 graph: ``tag`` and ``pypi`` both depend on ``github``
-(``.github/workflows/create-release.yml:685,850``), and ``conda`` depends on
-``tag`` and ``github`` (``:1085``) -- so nothing downstream of ``github`` can
+(``.github/workflows/create-release.yml:806,972``), and ``conda`` depends on
+``tag`` and ``github`` (``:1208``) -- so nothing downstream of ``github`` can
 start before it is approved, and rejecting it leaves nothing tagged and
 nothing published. Before this change ``tag`` depended on ``version_check``
 alone, so removing its reviewer without moving this dependency would have let
@@ -457,8 +471,8 @@ Precautions
    *their own* artefact is missing rather than whether the ``v*`` tag exists, so an
    incomplete release runs the jobs that did not finish instead of skipping them.
    A half-finished release self-heals on re-running the run that tagged it
-   -- see `Recovery`_ below; a run created for a later commit refuses instead
-   (`One Commit per Release`_).
+   -- see `Recovery`_ below; a run created for a later commit releases nothing
+   instead, with a warning that names what is missing (`One Commit per Release`_).
    ``release_status`` is the other half: it runs unconditionally and reports,
    with a ``::notice``, a ``::warning`` or a failing ``::error``, why a run
    released nothing or that it released something, so a stranded release is
@@ -480,7 +494,7 @@ back, and neither is needed, since a plain re-run self-heals; see
 
 **``environment: pypi`` stays even though its reviewer is gone.** ``pypi``
 publishes through PyPI's OIDC trusted publishing (``environment: pypi`` at
-``:845``, ``id-token: write`` at ``:849``), and PyPI's trusted-publisher
+``:967``, ``id-token: write`` at ``:971``), and PyPI's trusted-publisher
 configuration can be scoped to a GitHub Actions environment name. If this
 project's publisher on PyPI is scoped that way, removing the ``pypi`` name
 -- not just its reviewer -- would break the upload with a claim mismatch;
@@ -491,7 +505,7 @@ the name regardless, since there is no upside to removing it.
 **``conda-tag`` writes to ``main``, so a release is not read-only on the
 branch.** After cutting ``conda-<version>+0`` at the run's commit, the
 ``tag`` job pushes a commit setting :file:`conda/build` to ``0`` on top of
-``main`` (``.github/workflows/create-release.yml:771-824``) -- a plain
+``main`` (``.github/workflows/create-release.yml:893-946``) -- a plain
 fast-forward push, never a rewrite -- so the next Conda Update bump of that
 version is ``+1``. There is none when the run's commit is not on ``main``, nor
 when ``main``'s tip already says ``0`` (the usual case, since
 
@@ -256,7 +256,10 @@ the verdict for 9083163f5 (`#1643 <https://github.com/JarryShaw/PyPCAPKit/issues
 So Vendor Update, Conda Update and GitHub Pages each run a ``verdict`` job first,
 and act only when the tip is the verified commit, or that commit plus bot commits
 to ``conda/build`` and ``conda/requirements.txt`` alone; otherwise they skip, and
-the tip's own Unit Tests run raises them again. The rule and its evidence are in
+the tip's own Unit Tests run raises them again. Vendor Update's run still
+concludes ``success`` then, since ``verdict`` ran, so Create Release reads its
+``vendor-update`` job to tell it from a real one
+(`#1748 <https://github.com/JarryShaw/PyPCAPKit/issues/1748>`__). The rule and its evidence are in
 ``util/verdict_covers_checkout.py``. Conda Update also writes after the
 checkout, so it applies the same rule a second time: its push rebases onto
 ``main``'s tip only when the commits that brings in pass it, and otherwise
@@ -283,7 +286,7 @@ the caller's own workflow run, as one of the caller's own jobs, rather than
 starting an independent run after the caller finishes. All four calls in this
 repository target the same reusable workflow, with the same input:
 
-* ``.github/workflows/create-release.yml:479`` -- job ``unit-tests`` calls
+* ``.github/workflows/create-release.yml:593`` -- job ``unit-tests`` calls
   ``./.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml`` with ``gate-only: true``.
 * ``.github/workflows/cron-conda.yml:50`` -- job ``unit-tests`` calls
   ``./.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml`` with ``gate-only: true``.
@@ -323,35 +326,43 @@ The Skip Cascade (`#888 <https://github.com/JarryShaw/PyPCAPKit/issues/888>`__)
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 The two relationships above compose into a failure mode worth seeing on its
-own graph. Create Release's first job, ``version_check`` -- ahead of the
-``uses:`` call above -- carries:
+own graph. Create Release's ``version_check`` -- ahead of the ``uses:`` call
+above -- carries:
 
 .. code-block:: yaml
 
    if: >-
-     ${{ (github.event_name != 'workflow_run' || github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'success') &&
-     !(github.event_name == 'push' && github.actor_id == vars.RELEASE_APP_BOT_ID) }}
+     ${{ !cancelled() &&
+     (github.event_name != 'workflow_run' || github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'success') &&
+     !(github.event_name == 'push' && github.actor_id == vars.RELEASE_APP_BOT_ID) &&
+     needs.vendor_update.outputs.updated != 'false' }}
 
-(``create-release.yml:210-212``). Its second half skips the tag-push run that
+(``create-release.yml:290-294``). Its third clause skips the tag-push run that
 the release App's own tag starts (:doc:`releasing`, "The Release App"). On the
 ``workflow_run`` path, this evaluates **false**, and the job is skipped
 outright, whenever the upstream Vendor Update run's own conclusion was
 anything other than ``success`` -- including
 ``skipped``, which is exactly what Vendor Update's *own* jobs report when
 *their* ``workflow_run``-path guards decline (see ``cron-vendor.yml``'s
-``vendor-update`` job). ``unit-tests`` then depends on that job with
-``needs: [ version_check ]`` (``create-release.yml:469``) and an ``if:`` that
+``vendor-update`` job). Since
+`#1748 <https://github.com/JarryShaw/PyPCAPKit/issues/1748>`__ it is also false
+for a Vendor Update that concluded ``success`` with ``vendor-update`` skipped --
+its ``verdict`` job found the Unit Tests verdict was for another commit -- which
+the ``vendor_update`` job reads from that run's jobs first, as run 38650191283
+was. ``!cancelled()`` keeps a skipped ``vendor_update``, on a push, from
+skipping it. ``unit-tests`` then depends on that job with
+``needs: [ version_check ]`` (``create-release.yml:581``) and an ``if:`` that
 calls no status-check function, so a skipped dependency skips it too -- and
 every job past it is gated the same way: ``github`` needs ``[ unit-tests,
-version_check ]`` (``:500``), ``tag`` needs ``[ github, unit-tests,
-version_check ]`` (``:685``), ``pypi`` needs ``[ github, unit-tests,
-version_check ]`` (``:850``), and ``conda`` needs ``[ tag, github,
-unit-tests, version_check ]`` (``:1085``).
+version_check ]`` (``:619``), ``tag`` needs ``[ github, unit-tests,
+version_check ]`` (``:806``), ``pypi`` needs ``[ github, unit-tests,
+version_check ]`` (``:972``), and ``conda`` needs ``[ tag, github,
+unit-tests, version_check ]`` (``:1208``).
 
 .. mermaid::
 
    flowchart TD
-       WR["Vendor Update completed<br/>conclusion != success"]
+       WR["Vendor Update completed<br/>conclusion != success,<br/>or vendor-update skipped"]
        VC["version_check<br/>SKIPPED"]
        UTX["unit-tests (uses: unit-tests.yml)<br/>SKIPPED"]
        GH["github (GitHub Release)<br/>SKIPPED"]
@@ -372,7 +383,7 @@ unit-tests, version_check ]`` (``:1085``).
 
 This is a transitive reduction, as in :doc:`releasing`: ``version_check`` and
 ``unit-tests`` are also direct ``needs:`` of ``tag`` and ``pypi``
-(``create-release.yml:685,850``) and of ``conda`` (``:1085``), but ``github``
+(``create-release.yml:806,972``) and of ``conda`` (``:1208``), but ``github``
 already implies those edges, since it depends on both itself. Drawing them
 would add lines without changing which job can start before which, or which
 job a skip in ``version_check`` reaches.
@@ -400,7 +411,11 @@ Such a run is also kept out of the release's concurrency group
 its own ``github.run_id`` rather than on the ref, so it cannot cancel a run
 waiting there with release work. Keyed on the ref, run 38499295798 joined at
 02:06:32Z on 2026-10-14, and the pending 38499150441, whose Vendor Update had
-succeeded, was cancelled a second later.
+succeeded, was cancelled a second later. A run whose Vendor Update concluded
+``success`` with ``vendor-update`` skipped (#1748) is still keyed on the ref:
+the group reads only the event, which does not say which jobs ran. It can still
+displace a run pending there, and now releases nothing in its place, so that
+release waits for the next Vendor Update on ``main``.
 
 ``pull_request_target``
 -----------------------
@@ -814,10 +829,10 @@ Deployment ``environment:``
 Five jobs declare a deployment ``environment:`` and can therefore pause for an
 approval, four in ``create-release.yml`` and one in ``cron-python-versions.yml``:
 
-* ``github`` -- ``environment: github-release`` (``create-release.yml:497``)
-* ``tag`` -- ``environment: conda-tag`` (``create-release.yml:683``)
-* ``pypi`` -- ``environment: pypi`` (``create-release.yml:845``)
-* ``conda`` -- ``environment: anaconda`` (``create-release.yml:1082``)
+* ``github`` -- ``environment: github-release`` (``create-release.yml:616``)
+* ``tag`` -- ``environment: conda-tag`` (``create-release.yml:804``)
+* ``pypi`` -- ``environment: pypi`` (``create-release.yml:967``)
+* ``conda`` -- ``environment: anaconda`` (``create-release.yml:1205``)
 * ``pr`` -- ``environment: github-release``, for the release App's key (see
   `Python Versions`_)
 
 
@@ -1252,10 +1252,12 @@ def test_version_check_treats_its_merge_like_any_other(self) -> None:
         self.assertEqual(set(on), {'push', 'workflow_run'})
         self.assertEqual(on['push'], {'tags': ['v*']})
         self.assertEqual(on['workflow_run']['workflows'], ['Vendor Update'])
+        # #1748 added the triggering Vendor Update's own reading, which names no branch either.
         self.assertEqual(' '.join(spec['jobs']['version_check']['if'].split()),
-                         "${{ (github.event_name != 'workflow_run' || github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == "
-                         "'success') && !(github.event_name == 'push' && github.actor_id == "
-                         "vars.RELEASE_APP_BOT_ID) }}")
+                         "${{ !cancelled() && (github.event_name != 'workflow_run' || "
+                         "github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'success') && !(github.event_name == 'push' "
+                         "&& github.actor_id == vars.RELEASE_APP_BOT_ID) && "
+                         "needs.vendor_update.outputs.updated != 'false' }}")
 
     def test_permissions_are_nothing_by_default_and_little_per_job(self) -> None:
         self.assertEqual(self.spec['permissions'], {})