## Summary
Noto Sans Syriac Western was sourced from the notofonts/syriac repository (shared with Noto Sans Syriac and Noto Sans Syriac Eastern). The family was published as a variable font with a `wght` axis (100–900), covering the Western Syriac script variant (Syrc) and supporting Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Classical Syriac, Syriac, Turoyo, and Arabic written in Syriac. No `config_yaml` field was present in the METADATA.pb source block. Files were distributed via the NotoSansSyriacWestern-v3.001 release archive. The font was added to Google Fonts on 2023-01-06 and released at version 3.001.
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+## Recent upstream/main activity (post-investigation)
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+A four-commit revision sequence by Simon Cozens on 2025-10-02/03 advanced this family to v3.001:
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+- **2025-10-02** — Simon Cozens, commit [`4416b69d2`](https://github.com/google/fonts/commit/4416b69d2) ("Add 3.001"): added the v3.001 binary update.
+- **2025-10-02** — Simon Cozens, commit [`1b6a4d32d`](https://github.com/google/fonts/commit/1b6a4d32d) ("Update metadata"): advanced `commit` (`0be4b71c...` → `4b57be25d...`) and removed the v3.000 `archive_url`.
+- **2025-10-03** — Simon Cozens, commit [`5d425ebbb`](https://github.com/google/fonts/commit/5d425ebbb) ("Fix again"): another binary update.
+- **2025-10-03** — Simon Cozens, commit [`aa728a5ea`](https://github.com/google/fonts/commit/aa728a5ea) ("Update SHA"): advanced `commit` again (`4b57be25d...` → `a24ba4586...`), the final state of the source block at HEAD.
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+The final recorded commit `a24ba4586441a6b76df20215464898852e702078` is what HEAD reflects today.