diff --git a/distribution/channels.yaml b/distribution/channels.yaml
index ebf2504d0..2aa2ca483 100644
--- a/distribution/channels.yaml
+++ b/distribution/channels.yaml
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ channels:
       strategy: local_file
       files:
         - charts/libredb-studio/Chart.yaml
-      extract: 'appVersion: "(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)"'
+      extract: "appVersion:\\s*[\"']?(\\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+)"
       note: Enforcement lives in the required chart:check CI gate (#138); this row is visibility.
 
   - id: homebrew
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ channels:
     pin:
       strategy: remote_file
       url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libredb/homebrew-tap/main/Formula/libredb-studio.rb
-      extract: 'version "(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)"'
+      extract: "version\\s+[\"'](\\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+)"
       note: Confirms the release-CI tap push actually landed.
 
   - id: snap
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ channels:
     pin:
       strategy: remote_file
       url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/caprover/one-click-apps/master/public/v4/apps/libredb-studio.yml
-      extract: "defaultValue: '(\\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+)'"
+      extract: "defaultValue:\\s*[\"']?(\\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+)"
       note: The single CapRover row. A LibreDB-owned 3rd-party repo
         (libredb/caprover-one-click-apps) served the app while this submission was in review and was
         retired once it merged; it had its own inventory entry until that duplicated CapRover in the
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ channels:
     pin:
       strategy: remote_file
       url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubero-dev/kubero/main/services/libredb-studio/app.yaml
-      extract: 'ghcr\.io/libredb/libredb-studio\s+tag:\s*(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)'
+      extract: "ghcr\\.io/libredb/libredb-studio\\s+tag:\\s*[\"']?(\\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+)"
 
   - id: sealos
     name: Sealos App Store template
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ channels:
     pin:
       strategy: remote_file
       url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/truenas/apps/master/ix-dev/community/libredb-studio/ix_values.yaml
-      extract: 'ghcr\.io/libredb/libredb-studio\s+tag:\s*(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)'
+      extract: "ghcr\\.io/libredb/libredb-studio\\s+tag:\\s*[\"']?(\\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+)"
       note: Merged in truenas/apps#5501 (14 Aug 2026); live in the TrueNAS SCALE community catalog. The pin
         reads the ghcr repo and tag in ix-dev/community/libredb-studio/ix_values.yaml (the maintainer-edited
         source a bump PR touches) - the container_utils_image tag is a different repository and must not be
@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ channels:
     pin:
       strategy: remote_file
       url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/YunoHost-Apps/libredb_studio_ynh/master/manifest.toml
-      extract: 'version = "(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)~ynh\d+"'
+      extract: "version\\s*=\\s*[\"']?(\\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+)"
       note: Listed by YunoHost/apps#3618, merged 2026-09-20. Unlike the other self-hosting catalogs here, the
         package installs no container; it unpacks the standalone Linux tarball under systemd and fetches its
         own Node 24 through YunoHost's `n`, which is why platforms is linux and the runtime is
diff --git a/tests/unit/distribution-check.test.ts b/tests/unit/distribution-check.test.ts
index c5521679b..7ad76d743 100644
--- a/tests/unit/distribution-check.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/distribution-check.test.ts
@@ -425,6 +425,18 @@ describe("extractPin", () => {
       "0.9.27",
     );
   });
+
+  // TrueNAS started quoting and digest-pinning the same field, and the pattern
+  // then matched nothing, so the channel reported UNKNOWN on every run for weeks
+  // and nobody saw it. This is that exact shape, so the quote cannot go
+  // unreadable again without a red test.
+  test("extracts a quoted, digest-pinned tag (truenas style)", () => {
+    const content =
+      '    repository: ghcr.io/libredb/libredb-studio\n    tag: "0.17.0@sha256:ce4d58724e2507a4467bcce6702d00760475e0f339071d878fce83e90c99718f"\n';
+    expect(
+      extractPin(content, 'ghcr\\.io/libredb/libredb-studio\\s+tag:\\s*"?(\\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+)', "truenas-scale"),
+    ).toBe("0.17.0");
+  });
 });
 
 function helmChannel() {
@@ -686,6 +698,55 @@ describe("update.ci_enabled", () => {
     const declared = channels.filter((c: { update: { ci_enabled?: boolean } }) => c.update.ci_enabled !== undefined);
     expect(declared.map((c: { id: string }) => c.id).sort()).toEqual([...SWITCHABLE_CHANNEL_IDS].sort());
   });
+
+  // TrueNAS quoted and digest-pinned a tag it had always written bare, the
+  // pattern stopped matching, and the channel reported UNKNOWN on every run for
+  // weeks with nobody noticing: strictFailures only covers local_file channels
+  // on every_release, so a remote pin that measures nothing never fails anything.
+  // Every pin below reads a field whose quoting the upstream owner can change
+  // without telling us, so each is asserted against all three legal spellings.
+  test("every quote-sensitive pin reads the value bare, single- and double-quoted", () => {
+    const channels = parseChannels(readFileSync(join(import.meta.dir, "../../distribution/channels.yaml"), "utf8"));
+    const shapes: Record<string, (v: string) => string> = {
+      "truenas-scale": (v) => `    repository: ghcr.io/libredb/libredb-studio\n    tag: ${v}\n`,
+      kubero: (v) => `    repository: ghcr.io/libredb/libredb-studio\n    tag: ${v}\n`,
+      helm: (v) => `appVersion: ${v}\n`,
+      homebrew: (v) => `  version ${v}\n`,
+      "caprover-official": (v) => `          defaultValue: ${v}\n`,
+      yunohost: (v) => `version = ${v}\n`,
+    };
+    // A formatter run upstream can turn one space into two, or into a tab, as
+    // easily as it can change a quote. Homebrew's pattern used to spell the gap
+    // as a single literal space while every other one used \\s.
+    const gaps: Record<string, string[]> = { homebrew: ["  version ", "  version  ", "  version\t"] };
+    for (const [id, shape] of Object.entries(shapes)) {
+      const channel = channels.find((c: { id: string }) => c.id === id);
+      expect(channel, `${id} is missing from the inventory`).toBeDefined();
+      const pattern = channel.pin.extract as string;
+      // Homebrew writes a Ruby string literal, so bare is not a spelling there:
+      // `version 0.17.0` is not valid Ruby, and accepting it would only widen the
+      // pattern towards matching something that is not the version.
+      const spellings = id === "homebrew" ? ['"9.9.9"', "'9.9.9'"] : ["9.9.9", '"9.9.9"', "'9.9.9'"];
+      for (const spelling of spellings) {
+        expect(extractPin(shape(spelling), pattern, id), `${id} cannot read ${spelling}`).toBe("9.9.9");
+      }
+      for (const gap of gaps[id] ?? []) {
+        expect(extractPin(`${gap}"9.9.9"\n`, pattern, id), `${id} cannot read the gap ${JSON.stringify(gap)}`).toBe(
+          "9.9.9",
+        );
+      }
+    }
+  });
+
+  // The digest is part of the tag TrueNAS publishes, and the capture has to stop
+  // before it or the channel reads a version no release ever carried.
+  test("a digest-pinned tag captures the version and stops at the digest", () => {
+    const channels = parseChannels(readFileSync(join(import.meta.dir, "../../distribution/channels.yaml"), "utf8"));
+    const truenas = channels.find((c: { id: string }) => c.id === "truenas-scale");
+    const body =
+      '  image:\n    repository: ghcr.io/libredb/libredb-studio\n    tag: "0.17.0@sha256:ce4d58724e2507a4467bcce6702d00760475e0f339071d878fce83e90c99718f"\n  container_utils_image:\n    repository: ixsystems/container-utils\n    tag: "1.0.2@sha256:46eba20714c1cc6784f60e245c32c33a2d9f616e47d804694a9854248c89a992"\n';
+    expect(extractPin(body, truenas.pin.extract, "truenas-scale")).toBe("0.17.0");
+  });
 });
 
 const SCRIPT = join(import.meta.dir, "../../scripts/distribution-check.mjs");