diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/sendable_integration_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/sendable_integration_test.go
index ac441a8b..da974574 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/sendable_integration_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/sendable_integration_test.go
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ func TestAConvergedDeclarationIsByteForByteWhatItWas(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	if string(body) != convergedBefore {
-		t.Fatalf("a converged declaration changed; an older host parses this strictly:\n%s\n%s",
-			body, convergedBefore)
+		// One line, got first: the verdict keeps only a failure's first line (issue 1921), and the bytes are what to capture.
+		t.Fatalf("a converged declaration changed; an older host parses this strictly: got %s want %s", body, convergedBefore)
 	}
 	if bytes.Contains(body, []byte(`"adoption"`)) {
 		t.Fatal("a converged declaration names adoption; an older host would refuse it")
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/sendable_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/sendable_test.go
index 0616525f..5c32546e 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/sendable_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/sendable_test.go
@@ -47,7 +47,11 @@ func composed(t *testing.T, open *stores, node string) sendable {
 // machine's own resolver knows the mesh's names now — and left this string carrying it, so the
 // guard failed for a day and nothing ran it. A field an older host never sees is the one change
 // this guard permits; a field it would refuse is the one it exists to catch.
-const convergedBefore = `{"declaration":1,"resources":[{"content":"hello","id":"hello-web.page","path":"/var/lib/hello-web/index.html","type":"file"},{"id":"hello-web.server","image":"registry.example/hello@sha256:aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa","name":"hello-web","type":"container"},{"id":"hello-web.served","path":"/var/lib/hello-web","type":"directory"}]}`
+//
+// Re-captured for release 6 (issue 1945): every composition is for a node-engine of release 6, which reads a module per
+// resource (readNode sets ReadsModules), so each resource carries its "module". An older host that never said it reads them is
+// no longer sent a declaration; the field is the wire's own since issue 1145.
+const convergedBefore = `{"declaration":1,"resources":[{"content":"hello","id":"hello-web.page","module":"hello-web","path":"/var/lib/hello-web/index.html","type":"file"},{"id":"hello-web.server","image":"registry.example/hello@sha256:aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa","module":"hello-web","name":"hello-web","type":"container"},{"id":"hello-web.served","module":"hello-web","path":"/var/lib/hello-web","type":"directory"}]}`
 
 func mustNodes(t *testing.T, open *stores) []inventory.Node {
 	t.Helper()