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## Probe

```
curl 'https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/fetch_releases?channel=Stable&platform=Linux&num=3'
curl 'https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/fetch_milestone_schedule?mstone=140'
curl 'https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/fetch_milestone_schedule'
curl 'https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/fetch_releases?channel=Stable&platform=Linux&num=0'
```

## Observed (2026-10-05T11:32:33Z - 11:32:43Z)

`fetch_releases` (200, `content-type: application/json`): each release
object carries `time` as **epoch milliseconds** (`1790902579827`, not
seconds, not ISO-8601) alongside component hashes for angle/chromium/dawn/
devtools/pdfium/skia/v8/webrtc and both `version` and `previous_version`.

`fetch_milestone_schedule?mstone=140` (200): returns the full 140 schedule
— `branch_point`, `earliest_beta`, `feature_freeze`, `stable_date`,
`stable_refresh_first/second/third`, plus per-surface `ldaps`/`owners` maps
keyed `bling`/`clank`/`cros`/`desktop`/`desktop_emea`/`desktop_us`/
`mobile_emea`/`mobile_us` (several null for older milestones).

**Omitting `mstone` entirely is not an error** — it silently returns the
schedule for whatever milestone is "current" relative to the server clock
(branch_point `2026-09-28`, stable_date `2026-10-21` in this probe), with
no field flagging that the parameter was defaulted rather than supplied.

`num=0` is the one place this API *does* validate input, and it does so
with a FastAPI/pydantic-shaped 400:

```json
[{"type":"greater_than_equal","loc":["num"],"msg":"Input should be greater than or equal to 1","input":"0","ctx":{"ge":1}}]
```

— a bare JSON array at the top level, not an object with an `error` key.

## Why this is a trap

An agent that reads `time` as seconds (the more common Unix-epoch
convention) will compute a release date 1000x too recent (epoch-ms
1790902579827 as seconds lands in the year 58722, not 2026). An agent that
forgets `mstone` will get a *successful*, plausible-looking schedule for
the wrong milestone with nothing in the response to say so. And the error
shape for `num` is an unwrapped array, which breaks any client expecting
`{"error": ...}`.

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:32:33Z-11:32:43Z, direct unauthenticated GET
with curl against four parameter combinations.

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