diff --git a/build.gradle.kts b/build.gradle.kts
index ba584be..b422de2 100644
--- a/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/build.gradle.kts
@@ -1,15 +1,5 @@
 plugins {
     alias(libs.plugins.kotlin.multiplatform) apply false
-    // 0.3.4-ONLY WORKAROUND (#194) — DELETE THIS LINE with the pluginManagement bump to 0.3.5.
-    // Declared here (never applied) purely to put the kplusplus plugin on the ROOT buildscript
-    // classpath next to the Kotlin plugin, so both resolve as ONE classpath. 0.3.4's plugin
-    // carried its ksrpc/ktor/coroutines runtime as ordinary dependencies, which a multi-project
-    // consumer resolves into a CHILD classloader while parent-first loading keeps serving the
-    // ROOT's older kotlinx-coroutines — `NoSuchMethodError: Job.invokeOnCompletion$default`
-    // before krapper is even started. 0.3.5 SHADES that runtime into the plugin jar (see
-    // compiler/gradle/build.gradle.kts), which is the actual fix; this line is only what keeps
-    // THIS repo building while it self-hosts one release behind, on 0.3.4.
-    id("com.monkopedia.kplusplus.compiler") apply false
     alias(libs.plugins.ktlint)
 }
 
diff --git a/docs/getting-started.md b/docs/getting-started.md
index dda101b..2d9930b 100644
--- a/docs/getting-started.md
+++ b/docs/getting-started.md
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ pluginManagement {
 ```kotlin
 plugins {
     kotlin("multiplatform") version "2.4.0"
-    id("com.monkopedia.kplusplus.compiler") version "0.3.4"
+    id("com.monkopedia.kplusplus.compiler") version "0.3.5"
 }
 
 repositories {
@@ -47,13 +47,13 @@ repositories {
 ```
 
 In a **multi-project** build, apply this in whichever project owns the bindings; the plugin
-does not need to be declared at the root alongside the Kotlin plugin. (Under **0.3.4 only** it
-did — the plugin's own runtime classes were shadowed by whatever the root buildscript
+does not need to be declared at the root alongside the Kotlin plugin. (It did under **0.3.4
+only** — the plugin's own runtime classes were shadowed by whatever the root buildscript
 classloader owned, and the first `kplusplusSync` failed with
-`NoSuchMethodError: Job.invokeOnCompletion$default`. Adding
+`NoSuchMethodError: Job.invokeOnCompletion$default`. 0.3.5 shades that runtime into the plugin
+jar, which is the real fix; if you are stuck on 0.3.4, adding
 `id("com.monkopedia.kplusplus.compiler") apply false` to the root `plugins { }` block works
-around it on 0.3.4; upgrading is the real fix. See
-[#194](https://github.com/Monkopedia/kplusplus/issues/194).)
+around it. See [#194](https://github.com/Monkopedia/kplusplus/issues/194).)
 
 ## 2. Configure the binding
 
diff --git a/samples/minimal/build.gradle.kts b/samples/minimal/build.gradle.kts
index 584a3d4..44c97e0 100644
--- a/samples/minimal/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/samples/minimal/build.gradle.kts
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ plugins {
     // The kplusplus compiler subplugin, resolved from its published mavenLocal marker
     // (R2, #128) — no includeBuild. Everything kplusplus-specific lives in the narrow
     // `kplusplus { ... }` block at the bottom of this file.
-    id("com.monkopedia.kplusplus.compiler") version "0.3.4"
+    id("com.monkopedia.kplusplus.compiler") version "0.3.5"
     id("com.monkopedia.klinker.plugin") version "0.2.0"
 }
 
diff --git a/samples/multiproject/README.md b/samples/multiproject/README.md
index 0bf76a4..18e68a1 100644
--- a/samples/multiproject/README.md
+++ b/samples/multiproject/README.md
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ That is the entire test. What it binds does not matter.
 
 ## Run it
 
-The plugin is resolved by coordinate (`mavenLocal()` first), so publish the build under test
+The plugin is resolved by coordinate, `mavenLocal()` first. With an empty `mavenLocal` the pin
+resolves the last **released** plugin, which is a useful post-release check that #194 is still
+fixed in what actually shipped. To exercise the build *under test* instead, publish it locally
 first — the release local dry run, from the repo root:
 
 ```sh
@@ -49,6 +51,4 @@ service channel to krapper, before any binding is generated. Compiling the gener
 (`../../gradlew :bindings:build`) exercises the rest, but is not what this sample is for.
 
 `:bindings:build` is step 4 of the release **local dry run** ([docs/releasing.md](../../docs/releasing.md)),
-which is where this sample is exercised. It has no CI workflow of its own — unlike
-`samples/minimal` it cannot run against the *released* plugin, since the plugin under test is
-the point.
+which is where this sample is exercised. It has no CI workflow of its own.
diff --git a/samples/multiproject/bindings/build.gradle.kts b/samples/multiproject/bindings/build.gradle.kts
index 15bb179..1e213f0 100644
--- a/samples/multiproject/bindings/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/samples/multiproject/bindings/build.gradle.kts
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 // this is a from-published consumer.
 plugins {
     kotlin("multiplatform")
-    id("com.monkopedia.kplusplus.compiler") version "0.3.4"
+    id("com.monkopedia.kplusplus.compiler") version "0.3.5"
 }
 
 repositories {
diff --git a/settings.gradle.kts b/settings.gradle.kts
index 6968cc0..adc8324 100644
--- a/settings.gradle.kts
+++ b/settings.gradle.kts
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ pluginManagement {
     // PLUGIN development happens in an example (samples/*) that includeBuilds compiler. Bump
     // this version on each release.
     plugins {
-        id("com.monkopedia.kplusplus.compiler") version "0.3.4"
+        id("com.monkopedia.kplusplus.compiler") version "0.3.5"
     }
 }