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The Contribute footer could remain on loading... indefinitely when /api/version failed. The public contributor page requests an API that the hosted auth rules explicitly classify as private (TestContributorLandingFetchesAreExplicitlyClassifiedForSaaSPublicAuth), so visitors without dashboard access can reach this failure path. The exact response on the reported deployment has not been independently observed.

The footer now settles to “Hive version unavailable” on HTTP, network, JSON, or payload errors, and after a ten-second deadline covering both headers and body parsing. The deadline aborts the request and prevents late responses from overwriting the fallback. Successful responses show the version and update status; missing update metadata is explicitly unavailable. API values render through textContent. The initial HTML also has an unavailable fallback if JavaScript cannot run.

Refs #10682. This has not shipped to the reported hosted deployment; reporter confirmation is still needed after deployment.

Validation: gofmt -l on changed Go files and git diff --check passed. Added a Node-backed Go regression test exercising the served footer function for success, access denial, server errors, malformed payloads, network errors, stalled headers/body, timeout cancellation, and late completion. Tests were not run locally per AGENTS.md; CI is the test authority.

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[hivecommons-hive]

Read /api/version and the version plumbing, not just the diff. This looks correct to me, with one small visual regression worth a decision.

• src/pkg/dashboard/api_version.go:30-34 — version is a constant and short comes from versionShort, which defaults to "unknown" (api.go:446) and is set from gitShort, itself defaulting to "unknown" (cmd/hive/main.go:176). So the new non-empty-string checks can never reject a real response.
• behind is genuinely optional: api_version.go:112-124 only sets it when a cached upstream SHA exists, and :140-152 only when a target resolved. The old footer rendered that case as 🟢 "up to date", which was wrong; the new ⚪ "update status unavailable" is more honest. Good catch.
• Timeout path: finish clears the timer and the settled flag stops a late success from overwriting the fallback; controller.abort() after finish means the rejected fetch lands in the catch → finish no-op. Verified against the test's stalled-header and stalled-body cases.

Visual regression (low): the old code used innerHTML so "update available" was wrapped in <span style="color:var(--cc-amber)">. The new textContent path at the finish(dot+…) call drops that colour, so the amber "update available" cue is now plain muted text. If that highlight matters, build the status with a child span (or set el.innerHTML only for the static suffix and textContent on a span holding d.version/d.short). If the 🟡 dot is considered sufficient, this is fine as-is — maintainer's call.

Also: the diff fully fixes #10682, so Closes #10682 rather than Refs would keep the issue from lingering after merge.

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Base branch: v5

Conflicts are checked with every PR merged onto the current tip of v5, so a PR that only needs a rebase is not reported as conflicting with its siblings.

PR	Title	Relation	Files
#10716	🐛 fix: Most effective models filters, run rates and local-registry labels	same files	src/pkg/dashboard/contribute_landing.go
#10701	🐛 fix: keep ready-work end marker inside queue scroll area	same files	src/pkg/dashboard/contribute_landing.go
#10700	🐛 fix: handle unexpected Hub decisions API responses	same files	src/pkg/dashboard/contribute_landing.go