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 MCPMark provides a reproducible, extensible benchmark for researchers and engineers: one-command tasks, isolated sandboxes, auto-resume for failures, unified metrics, and aggregated reports.
 
-> 🚀 **MCPMark Verified is out** — a version-pinned, stabilized subset of the standard tasks for reproducible evaluation. On the Verified set, `gpt-5.5` (xhigh) leads at **92.9%** and `kimi-k2.7` reaches **81.1%**. See [#264](https://github.com/eval-sys/mcpmark/pull/264).
+> 🚀 **MCPMark Verified is now the default.** The standard tasks in this repository are the Verified set — every environment version-pinned and every verifier stabilized. Results from earlier task versions are deprecated and not directly comparable, so please report new numbers as **MCPMark Verified**. On the Verified set, `gpt-5.5` (xhigh) leads at **92.9%** and `kimi-k2.7` reaches **81.1%**. See [#264](https://github.com/eval-sys/mcpmark/pull/264).
 
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 ## News
 
-- 🚀 **12 Jun** — **MCPMark Verified** is out: a version-pinned, stabilized subset of the standard tasks. On the Verified set, `gpt-5.5` (xhigh) leads at **92.9%** and `kimi-k2.7` reaches **81.1%**. See [#264](https://github.com/eval-sys/mcpmark/pull/264).
+- 🚀 **12 Jun** — **MCPMark Verified** is now the default task set: every environment version-pinned and every verifier stabilized. Earlier task versions are deprecated; please report scores as **MCPMark Verified**. On the Verified set, `gpt-5.5` (xhigh) leads at **92.9%** and `kimi-k2.7` reaches **81.1%**. See [#264](https://github.com/eval-sys/mcpmark/pull/264).
 - 📣 **27 May** — The previous Notion Source Hub page is deprecated; please use the new link: [MCPMark Source Hub](https://gossamer-sawfish-47c.notion.site/MCPMark-Source-Hub-dc32b7e8cebd82b8959b81ae322df87a).
 - 📌 **21 Jan** — Pinned MCP server versions for reproducible benchmarks: GitHub MCP Server `v0.15.0` (switched to Docker for version control), Notion MCP Server `@1.9.1` (Notion released 2.0 but it has many bugs, not recommended). See [#246](https://github.com/eval-sys/mcpmark/pull/246).
 - 🔥 **13 Dec** — Added auto-compaction support (`--compaction-token`) to summarize long conversations and avoid context overflow during evaluation ([#236](https://github.com/eval-sys/mcpmark/pull/236])).