Controlled Version Publishing

Publishing is where version control meets distribution, and where most estates leak. A new version goes live and the old one remains reachable — in a cached page, a shared link, a folder nobody cleaned up — so two versions circulate and readers cannot tell which governs. The control is not merely publishing the new one but retiring the old, and retirement has to reach everywhere the document became reachable, which is more places than anyone expects.

Because indexing in Centralpoint follows record lifecycle, publication admits a version to the retrieval surface and supersession removes its predecessor without depending on a cleanup job. That matters disproportionately with an AI layer: a retrieval system has no sense that a document looks dated and will cite a withdrawn version as confidently as a current one, so index membership is the control that prevents it.