diff --git a/docs/api/openapi.yaml b/docs/api/openapi.yaml
index 9255e81e3..aa48c04d7 100644
--- a/docs/api/openapi.yaml
+++ b/docs/api/openapi.yaml
@@ -82136,7 +82136,7 @@ components:
             - type: "null"
         syncHealth:
           deprecated: true
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`. Present on the GET read; omitted from the PATCH echo."
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`. Present on the GET read; omitted from the PATCH echo."
           $ref: "#/components/schemas/SyncHealth"
         metricFreshness:
           description: Per-metric-type freshness for the `APPLE_HEALTH` source, with the per-type arrival facts. Present on the
@@ -82814,7 +82814,7 @@ components:
           type: boolean
         state:
           deprecated: true
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`."
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`."
           type: string
           enum:
             - connected
@@ -82837,14 +82837,14 @@ components:
             - type: "null"
         lastError:
           deprecated: true
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`. Last recorded failure message, decrypted from the ledger.
-            Null when the last attempt succeeded or none has run."
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`. Last recorded failure message, decrypted from the ledger. Null
+            when the last attempt succeeded or none has run."
           type:
             - string
             - "null"
         syncHealth:
           deprecated: true
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`."
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`."
           $ref: "#/components/schemas/SyncHealth"
         health:
           description: The unified connection state. Present whenever the connection exists; null in the rare case it resolved to
@@ -83033,9 +83033,9 @@ components:
           pattern: ^(?:(?:\d\d[2468][048]|\d\d[13579][26]|\d\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d:[0-5]\d(?:\.\d+)?(?:Z|([+-](?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d)))$
         tokenExpired:
           deprecated: true
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`. The stored access token's expiry is in the past. Read
-            straight off the row — unlike the Withings status read, this endpoint does not refresh; the sync path
-            refreshes lazily instead."
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`. The stored access token's expiry is in the past. Read straight
+            off the row — unlike the Withings status read, this endpoint does not refresh; the sync path refreshes
+            lazily instead."
           type: boolean
         tokenExpiresAt:
           type: string
@@ -83124,8 +83124,7 @@ components:
           pattern: ^(?:(?:\d\d[2468][048]|\d\d[13579][26]|\d\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d:[0-5]\d(?:\.\d+)?(?:Z|([+-](?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d)))$
         tokenExpired:
           deprecated: true
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`. True after a refresh attempt that did not produce a live
-            token."
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`. True after a refresh attempt that did not produce a live token."
           type: boolean
         tokenRefreshFailed:
           description: The read tried to refresh an expired token and could not — either the per-user credentials are gone or
@@ -83145,8 +83144,8 @@ components:
             - "null"
         hasActivityScope:
           deprecated: true
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`. Pre-computed convenience flag the reconnect banner reads. A
-            null `scope` counts as missing activity."
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`. Pre-computed convenience flag the reconnect banner reads. A null
+            `scope` counts as missing activity."
           type: boolean
         health:
           description: The unified connection state. Present whenever the connection exists; null in the rare case it resolved to
@@ -83455,8 +83454,8 @@ components:
           pattern: ^(?:(?:\d\d[2468][048]|\d\d[13579][26]|\d\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d:[0-5]\d(?:\.\d+)?(?:Z|([+-](?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d)))$
         tokenExpired:
           deprecated: true
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`. Read straight off the row — this endpoint does not refresh;
-            the sync path refreshes lazily."
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`. Read straight off the row — this endpoint does not refresh; the
+            sync path refreshes lazily."
           type: boolean
         tokenExpiresAt:
           type: string
@@ -83626,8 +83625,8 @@ components:
           pattern: ^(?:(?:\d\d[2468][048]|\d\d[13579][26]|\d\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d:[0-5]\d(?:\.\d+)?(?:Z|([+-](?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d)))$
         tokenExpired:
           deprecated: true
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`. Read straight off the row — this endpoint does not refresh;
-            the sync path refreshes lazily."
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`. Read straight off the row — this endpoint does not refresh; the
+            sync path refreshes lazily."
           type: boolean
         tokenExpiresAt:
           type: string
@@ -83677,7 +83676,7 @@ components:
             when every type was read to its start. Kept after the backfill completes; cleared on reconnect.
         needsReauth:
           deprecated: true
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`. The stored refresh token was rejected with `invalid_grant` —
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`. The stored refresh token was rejected with `invalid_grant` —
             Google expires it after 7 days while the OAuth client is in Testing publishing mode, and a user-revoked
             grant lands here too. Distinct from `parked` and from `disconnected`: the connection still exists, it just
             cannot mint a token until the user reconnects. Only Google Health has this field."
@@ -83881,7 +83880,7 @@ components:
           description: The user has stored their own BYO client id and secret.
         state:
           deprecated: true
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`."
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`."
           type: string
           enum:
             - connected
@@ -83904,13 +83903,13 @@ components:
             - type: "null"
         lastError:
           deprecated: true
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`."
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`."
           type:
             - string
             - "null"
         syncHealth:
           deprecated: true
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`."
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`."
           $ref: "#/components/schemas/SyncHealth"
         health:
           description: The unified connection state. Present whenever the connection exists; null in the rare case it resolved to
@@ -84305,7 +84304,7 @@ components:
             - disconnected
             - parked
             - unknown
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`."
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`."
           deprecated: true
         lastSuccessAt:
           anyOf:
@@ -84321,7 +84320,7 @@ components:
             - type: "null"
         lastError:
           deprecated: true
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`."
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`."
           type:
             - string
             - "null"
@@ -84348,11 +84347,11 @@ components:
               additionalProperties: false
             - type: "null"
           deprecated: true
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`. Per-kind consecutive-failure counters, or null when the row
-            has never written a bucket payload. Compare against the top-level `threshold` to know how close the provider
-            is to the operator alert."
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`. Per-kind consecutive-failure counters, or null when the row has
+            never written a bucket payload. Compare against the top-level `threshold` to know how close the provider is
+            to the operator alert."
         syncHealth:
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`."
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`."
           deprecated: true
           $ref: "#/components/schemas/SyncHealth"
         metricFreshness:
@@ -84389,7 +84388,7 @@ components:
             - type: "null"
         tokenExpired:
           deprecated: true
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`. Null — not false — when there is no connection to judge."
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`. Null — not false — when there is no connection to judge."
           type:
             - boolean
             - "null"
@@ -84432,14 +84431,14 @@ components:
             - "null"
         hasActivityScope:
           deprecated: true
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`. Withings only."
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`. Withings only."
           type: boolean
         planUnavailable:
           deprecated: true
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`. Withings only. The readings this connection's Withings API
-            plan withholds (status 277 since the 2026-10-12 plan split), deduplicated and in display order. Empty when
-            the plan refuses nothing. The sync skips these and keeps importing everything else; the list refreshes when
-            the weekly re-probe asks again."
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`. Withings only. The readings this connection's Withings API plan
+            withholds (status 277 since the 2026-10-12 plan split), deduplicated and in display order. Empty when the
+            plan refuses nothing. The sync skips these and keeps importing everything else; the list refreshes when the
+            weekly re-probe asks again."
           type: array
           items:
             type: string
@@ -84468,7 +84467,7 @@ components:
               - weight
         needsReauth:
           deprecated: true
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`. Google Health only."
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`. Google Health only."
           type: boolean
         available:
           description: Oura / Polar / Strava only.
@@ -84478,7 +84477,7 @@ components:
           type: boolean
         scopeReconnect:
           deprecated: true
-          description: "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`. Oura only. Collections the stored grant does not cover: Oura
+          description: "Deprecated, still served: read `health`. Oura only. Collections the stored grant does not cover: Oura
             refused them for a missing scope (named in its 401, or inferred when sibling collections succeeded with the
             same token), or the scopes Oura reported at connect leave theirs out. Not a failure and not counted toward
             the reconnect threshold; one reconnect asks for the missing scopes. Empty when the grant covers everything
@@ -84534,7 +84533,7 @@ components:
           description: The unified connection state, null when the provider is not connected (and for Fitbit once
             `retirement.ended`). It supersedes `state`, `lastError`, `consecutiveFailuresByKind`, `syncHealth`,
             `tokenExpired`, `needsReauth`, `hasActivityScope`, `planUnavailable` and `scopeReconnect` on this entry;
-            those nine are deprecated and removed in v1.44.
+            those nine are deprecated and still served for clients that predate `health`.
       required:
         - integration
         - state
diff --git a/src/__tests__/baselines/version-stamp-comments.json b/src/__tests__/baselines/version-stamp-comments.json
index 5a3506c2e..95b97061a 100644
--- a/src/__tests__/baselines/version-stamp-comments.json
+++ b/src/__tests__/baselines/version-stamp-comments.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "$comment": "Comment lines that open with a release version, per file under src/. Maintained by src/__tests__/version-stamp-ratchet.test.ts.",
   "count": 2897,
-  "total": 9247,
+  "total": 9246,
   "entries": {
     "__tests__/account-payload-consumer-guard.test.ts": 2,
     "__tests__/acting-account-boundary-guard.test.ts": 7,
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@
     "app/api/integrations/healthkit/__tests__/route.test.ts": 4,
     "app/api/integrations/healthkit/route.ts": 3,
     "app/api/integrations/status/__tests__/route.test.ts": 2,
-    "app/api/integrations/status/route.ts": 7,
+    "app/api/integrations/status/route.ts": 6,
     "app/api/integrations/withings/resume/__tests__/route.test.ts": 1,
     "app/api/integrations/withings/resume/route.ts": 1,
     "app/api/internal/deploy-webhook/__tests__/route.test.ts": 2,
diff --git a/src/app/api/integrations/status/route.ts b/src/app/api/integrations/status/route.ts
index 417037307..56539ee6e 100644
--- a/src/app/api/integrations/status/route.ts
+++ b/src/app/api/integrations/status/route.ts
@@ -502,8 +502,8 @@ export const GET = apiHandler(async () => {
       } satisfies IntegrationViewModel & NightscoutExtras,
       {
         ...publish(dawarichStatus),
-        // v1.43 — Dawarich, read by the card through `health`. The ledger core
-        // rides along like on every entry, and goes with the rest in v1.44.
+        // Dawarich, read by the card through `health`. The ledger core rides
+        // along like on every entry.
         connected: dawarichConfigured,
         configured: dawarichConfigured,
         health: health["dawarich"],
@@ -524,8 +524,9 @@ interface IntegrationViewModel {
    * health-shaped field on this entry (`state`, `lastError`,
    * `consecutiveFailuresByKind`, `syncHealth`, `tokenExpired`, `needsReauth`,
    * `hasActivityScope`, `planUnavailable`, `scopeReconnect`) is folded into
-   * it and goes once the settings cards render `health`; no other client
-   * reads this envelope.
+   * it. Those stay on the wire, deprecated in the published document; the
+   * cards render `health`, and only their copied diagnostics still read
+   * `consecutiveFailuresByKind`. No native client reads this envelope.
    */
   health: ConnectionHealth | null;
   state: string;
diff --git a/src/lib/openapi/routes/integrations.ts b/src/lib/openapi/routes/integrations.ts
index c2acc5677..a50b645d7 100644
--- a/src/lib/openapi/routes/integrations.ts
+++ b/src/lib/openapi/routes/integrations.ts
@@ -75,10 +75,12 @@ const healthKitEntry = z
       "One resolved HealthKit metric mapping (defaults merged with the user's stored overrides).",
   });
 
-// The health-shaped fields that predate `health` (v1.42.4). They stay on the
-// wire through v1.43 so App 1.2.0 keeps decoding, are marked deprecated in the
-// document, and go in v1.44.
-const LEGACY_HEALTH_FIELD = "Deprecated: removed in v1.44, read `health`.";
+// The health-shaped fields that predate `health`. They are marked deprecated
+// in the document and stay on the wire: native builds from before `health`
+// still decode them, the current one falls back to them only against a server
+// that sends no `health`, and the web card's copied diagnostics read the
+// failure streak. No removal release is set.
+const LEGACY_HEALTH_FIELD = "Deprecated, still served: read `health`.";
 
 function legacy(text?: string): { deprecated: true; description: string } {
   return {
@@ -1184,7 +1186,7 @@ const integrationEnvelopeEntry = z
     health: connectionHealth
       .nullable()
       .describe(
-        "The unified connection state, null when the provider is not connected (and for Fitbit once `retirement.ended`). It supersedes `state`, `lastError`, `consecutiveFailuresByKind`, `syncHealth`, `tokenExpired`, `needsReauth`, `hasActivityScope`, `planUnavailable` and `scopeReconnect` on this entry; those nine are deprecated and removed in v1.44.",
+        "The unified connection state, null when the provider is not connected (and for Fitbit once `retirement.ended`). It supersedes `state`, `lastError`, `consecutiveFailuresByKind`, `syncHealth`, `tokenExpired`, `needsReauth`, `hasActivityScope`, `planUnavailable` and `scopeReconnect` on this entry; those nine are deprecated and still served for clients that predate `health`.",
       ),
   })
   .meta({