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Summary

The version-2.3.x snapshot was published on 2026-09-10 at 11:24 UTC. #2191 — which retired the Cayenne refresh_append_overlap limitation — merged on 2026-09-11 and swept website/docs/ and version-2.2.x only. The freshly-cut snapshot therefore still carries the pre-correction text, so the v2.3.0 docs tell readers a supported knob fails to load. This is the "a freshly-cut snapshot arrives already-stale" case in the docs PR hygiene reference.

A false negative capability claim is the costly kind: it reads as a limitation, so nothing flags it and the reader's remedy is to stop using a feature that works.

website/versioned_docs/version-2.3.x/components/data-accelerators/cayenne/index.md already lacks the limitation bullet (#2186 removed it in vNext before the cut), so within the snapshot the accelerator page and these two reference pages contradict each other today.

Scope: only version-2.3.x. The 1.9.x–2.1.x snapshots correctly keep the limitation (the rejection is in their source), and version-2.2.x correctly carries the per-patch wording ("from v2.2.1").

Source PRs

• fix(cayenne): stop a predicate DELETE destroying live rows on an upsert table spiceai#13574 — removed the rejection and made the engine honour the window (git tag --contains → v2.2.1, v2.3.0)
• docs(cayenne): refresh_append_overlap is supported from v2.2.1 #2191 — the vNext + 2.2.x half of this correction

Test plan

• Docusaurus build gate — cd website && npm run build:

[SUCCESS] [docusaurus-plugin-llms-txt] Plugin completed successfully - processed 488 documents
[SUCCESS] Generated static files in "build".

• Versioned-docs propagation grep-count gate — grep -rln "Not supported by the Spice Cayenne" website/versioned_docs/version-2.3.x/ | wc -l vs git diff --cached --name-only -- website/ | wc -l:

$ grep -rln "Not supported by the Spice Cayenne" website/versioned_docs/version-2.3.x/ | wc -l
0
$ git diff --cached --name-only -- website/ | wc -l
2

• Class-wide sweep over every snapshot — grep -rn "file-mode Cayenne\|does not yet support refresh_append_overlap\|Not supported by the Spice Cayenne" website/ leaves the claim standing only where it is true: 1.9.x, 1.10.x, 1.11.x, 2.0.x, 2.1.x, plus the "from v2.2.1" wording in 2.2.x.
• Files updated: 2 — versioned_docs/version-2.3.x/reference/spicepod/datasets.md and .../views.md, matching the diff.

Reproduction

Doc said (website/versioned_docs/version-2.3.x/reference/spicepod/datasets.md:765 at docs c0f47f88; identical sentence at views.md:196):

Not supported by the Spice Cayenne (cayenne) acceleration engine: a file-mode Cayenne dataset that sets this fails to load.

Code says — the rejection is present at v2.2.0 and absent at v2.3.0:

$ git grep -rn 'refresh_append_overlap' v2.2.0 -- crates/ | grep -i 'not supported\|does not yet'
v2.2.0:crates/runtime/src/dataaccelerator/cayenne/mod.rs:3142:  "Cayenne data accelerator does not yet support refresh_append_overlap. Please remove this configuration",

$ git grep -rn 'does not yet support refresh_append_overlap' v2.3.0
(no output)

and v2.3.0 applies the window with no engine test — crates/runtime/src/datafusion/mod.rs:3126 (v2.3.0):

if let Some(append_overlap) = acceleration_settings.refresh_append_overlap {
    refresh = refresh.append_overlap(append_overlap);
}

Behavior claim: not run — establishing the absence of a load-time rejection needs a spiced build at the v2.3.0 tag plus an object store for a file-mode Cayenne dataset. The corrected claim is an existence claim about a rejection arm, settled by the two greps above, so this correction is Reproduced on that basis.

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