diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yaml b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
index 2a20f17..d602013 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout aephysics
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      # Pin: 0.799.0, the latest release (f32x8 arrived in 0.788.0, aether#2428,
+      # Pin: 0.805.0, the latest release (f32x8 arrived in 0.788.0, aether#2428,
       # which the wide contact solver is written in). A reproducible bootstrap
       # version: the floor this code needs, verified on Linux by this job.
       - name: Install the released Aether toolchain and aeb
         run: |
           curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aether-lang-dev/aeb/main/get.sh \
-            | AE_PIN=0.799.0 AEB_REF=v0.325 sh
+            | AE_PIN=0.805.0 AEB_REF=v0.326 sh
           echo "$HOME/.local/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
 
       - name: Run the tests with ae
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install the released Aether toolchain and aeb
         run: |
           curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aether-lang-dev/aeb/main/get.sh \
-            | AE_PIN=0.799.0 AEB_REF=v0.325 sh
+            | AE_PIN=0.805.0 AEB_REF=v0.326 sh
           echo "$HOME/.local/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
 
       - name: Run the tests with ae
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8cd2844..1e65f24 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -81,13 +81,14 @@ Install the released toolchain with the shared, version-pinned installer
 
 ```sh
 curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aether-lang-dev/aeb/main/get.sh \
-  | AE_PIN=0.795.0 AEB_REF=v0.325 sh
+  | AE_PIN=0.805.0 AEB_REF=v0.326 sh
 export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
 ```
 
-This installs `ae` 0.795.0, the release CI pins, and `aeb` v0.325 under
+This installs `ae` 0.805.0, the release CI pins, and `aeb` v0.326 under
 `~/.local` (`PREFIX` overrides it), using release binaries where available.
-The code needs 0.788.0 or newer (the eight-wide lanes, `f32x8`).
+CI verifies only the pinned release; older ones are not tested (the
+eight-wide lanes, `f32x8`, arrived in 0.788.0).
 
 ```
 scripts/test.sh                 # builds and runs every tests/test_*.ae with ae; what CI runs