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(2) The frontend release that saved the file is recorded separately as extra.frontendVersion (optional string). (3) Each node can carry properties.cnr_id (registry id), properties.aux_id (github user/repo for non-registry packs) and properties.ver, which must be a semantic version, a git commit hash or 'unknown'. (4) Optional models arrays at graph or node level list model files (see C3-B574-09 for hashes). (5) Legacy 0.4 files get a reroute-migration toast. Failure modes. Validation is advisory: the loader keeps the unvalidated graph if validation fails ('Ideally we should not block users from loading the workflow'), so a malformed or newer workflow can still half-load; ver may be 'unknown', so it is not a reliable pin; the version field says nothing about which node-pack commit produced widget layouts (inference). Example. A file with version 0.4 and no extra.frontendVersion predates the fields above. Limitations. 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