diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a32eb87..7280daf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ sits at the bottom, then **Add to Home Screen**. iOS 26 defaults to that Compact
 layout, which is why the app offers you both. On Android, Chrome has **Install
 app** in its menu.
 
-Installed, the whole app is 165 KB of shell and about 112 KB of schedule, gzipped, and
+Installed, the whole app is 164 KB of shell and about 113 KB of schedule, gzipped, and
 none of it is fetched again to answer a question. Turn the network off, open it,
 and it still ranks rooms. That matters because the moment you want it most is the
 moment you are in a basement with one bar.
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index dfb6513..0ee1fae 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -1230,24 +1230,6 @@ <h2 id="gate-h" tabindex="-1"></h2>
   <section id="pick" class="pane" hidden></section>
   <section id="browse" class="pane" hidden></section>
   <section id="about" class="pane" hidden></section>
-  <!-- REMOVE AFTER ONE RELEASE. #85 deleted the duration chips, and this empty
-       node is the only thing standing between that deletion and a frozen app
-       for everyone who already has the site installed.
-       sw.js serves navigations network-first and everything else cache-first,
-       so the first load after this deploys pairs the NEW index.html with the
-       OLD js/app.js still in the shell cache. That app.js calls attachChips()
-       as the second statement of its DOMContentLoaded listener, and its first
-       line is $('chips').querySelectorAll('.chip') against getElementById.
-       Without a node here that is a TypeError, and it lands before
-       $('back').onclick, popstate, attachSheet() and boot() are wired: the
-       screen holds "finding campus..." over four disabled buttons with no back
-       arrow and no error. Re-stamping SHELL_CACHE does not save that load,
-       because the old worker is the one serving it, and js/pwa.js only
-       auto-reloads while the page is untouched - which a frozen screen will not
-       stay. An empty div costs 30 bytes and makes the old code's forEach run
-       over nothing instead. Once a release has shipped with it, no cached
-       app.js reaches for #chips any more and this can go. -->
-  <div id="chips" hidden></div>
   <form id="find" hidden>
     <input id="find-q" type="search" autocomplete="off" autocorrect="off" spellcheck="false"
       enterkeyhint="search" placeholder="Search buildings" aria-label="Search buildings by name or code">
diff --git a/scripts/test/screens.test.mjs b/scripts/test/screens.test.mjs
index dcd88b0..b24d773 100644
--- a/scripts/test/screens.test.mjs
+++ b/scripts/test/screens.test.mjs
@@ -1367,25 +1367,6 @@ test('the duration chips are gone from the page, not merely hidden on it', () =>
   assert.doesNotMatch(APP, /paintChips|attachChips/, 'the chip handlers are still here');
 });
 
-test('the #chips node left behind for the old shell is empty, and dated', () => {
-  const html = readFileSync(join(ROOT, 'index.html'), 'utf8');
-  // sw.js serves navigations network-first and assets cache-first, so the first
-  // load after this deploys runs the new index.html against the js/app.js still
-  // in the shell cache. That app.js calls attachChips() before it wires #back,
-  // popstate, the sheet or boot(), and its first line is
-  // $('chips').querySelectorAll('.chip') — a TypeError on a missing node, and a
-  // screen frozen on "finding campus..." with no way out. This node exists only
-  // so that forEach runs over nothing instead.
-  const node = html.match(/<div id="chips"[^>]*>([\s\S]*?)<\/div>/);
-  assert.ok(node, 'the shim the old shell needs is gone; see #85 before removing it');
-  assert.equal(node[1].trim(), '', 'the shim grew content, which makes it a control again');
-  assert.match(node[0], /\bhidden\b/, 'the shim is not hidden');
-  // It is scaffolding with an expiry, not a feature. Once a release has shipped
-  // carrying it, no cached app.js reaches for #chips and the node can go.
-  const why = html.slice(Math.max(0, html.indexOf('<div id="chips"') - 1400), html.indexOf('<div id="chips"'));
-  assert.match(why, /REMOVE AFTER ONE RELEASE/, 'the shim lost the note saying it is temporary');
-});
-
 test('the ranked list says which question it is answering', () => {
   const paint = bodyOf('paintList');
   // In the concatenation, so it cannot be a line that renders somewhere else.
diff --git a/sw.js b/sw.js
index ff4222e..a56ccd5 100644
--- a/sw.js
+++ b/sw.js
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
 // One cache would either re-download the room index on every deploy or pin an
 // installed icon to last month's app.js forever.
 //
-// Measured on 2026-10-12 over the files prepared for the next commit, which is
+// Measured on 2026-10-13 over the files prepared for the next commit, which is
 // the copy Pages will serve: `gzip -9 -c < <file> | wc -c`.
-// Shell 169,259 bytes, data 115,160.
+// Shell 168,143 bytes, data 115,554.
 // Run it exactly as written, through the pipe. `gzip -9 -c <file>` with the
 // name as an argument stores each basename in the gzip FNAME header and reads
 // 176 bytes higher across these seventeen files, which is most of a percent of
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
 // placeholder is __BUILD_ID__, and a committed sw.js still carrying it means the
 // stamp did not run. scripts/test/sw.test.mjs fails on exactly that. Spelled out
 // rather than built from CACHE_PREFIX, because the stamper rewrites this line.
-const SHELL_CACHE = 'vacant-shell-45985c7';
+const SHELL_CACHE = 'vacant-shell-e49c533';
 const DATA_CACHE = 'vacant-data-v1';
 
 // CacheStorage is per origin, not per path, and enesyilmazcode.github.io also