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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>New deck uploads weren’t being registered, so the analysis could read an older version. The latest upload is now the one it reads.</description>
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      <description>Pass reasons now come from the mandate rule that failed, or, after a full analysis, from the reasoning behind the recommendation. Some deals had been tagged with the wrong reason.</description>
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      <description>A submission with no attachment that matches an existing deal now uses the latest stored deck, instead of the run stopping.</description>
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