Data changelog

PlainSentencing's public record of verified USSC data refreshes, pipeline fixes, and material methodology changes. Entries are added only when we can substantiate them from git history, ETL metadata, or a confirmed reader report, never backfilled.

August 30, 2026: FY2025 USSC data integrated

Integrated the U.S. Sentencing Commission's FY2025 Individual Offender Datafile release: 66,518 new cases, bringing FY2015–FY2025 coverage to 728,223 federal sentencing records across 93 districts. Homepage, district, offense, rankings, methodology, schema temporal coverage, and the honest data-vintage stamp now read FY2025. Pipeline commits 09b0b51 (ETL ingest) and b3732cb (site coverage refresh).

August 29, 2026: per-entity RSS update feeds

District and offense detail pages now expose RSS feeds that publish an item only when ETL-owned source-vintage metadata changes, no fabricated update history. Commit 471cce9.

August 29, 2026: Discover-ready wide share images

District and offense entity pages emit 1600×900 (16:9) satori share assets alongside the standard 1200×630 cards, with dual-size image JSON-LD and explicit primaryImageOfPage. Commit be241e9.

August 31, 2026: public changelog established

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