diff --git a/docs/planning/SERENITY_CLEANUP_WAVE_1.md b/docs/planning/SERENITY_CLEANUP_WAVE_1.md
index 46220e5..956000f 100644
--- a/docs/planning/SERENITY_CLEANUP_WAVE_1.md
+++ b/docs/planning/SERENITY_CLEANUP_WAVE_1.md
@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ From the live Serenity audit:
 - quick live checks did not surface immediate DB dependencies for `Wizarr`, `Shelfmark`, or `Notifiarr`
 - `Newt` is still needed
 - legacy Pi-hole containers are still running even though Technitium is now the intended DNS path
+- Serenity Newt-backed Pangolin routes still had stale health-check hostnames pointing at old `10.5.1.5` even though their target IPs had already been rewritten to `localhost`
+- live workaround applied on 2026-05-25: Serenity now carries runtime alias `10.5.1.5/32` on `br0` so those stale health checks resolve locally again
 
 ## Wave 1-A: legacy Pi-hole removal
 
diff --git a/docs/planning/SERENITY_DOCKER_AUDIT.md b/docs/planning/SERENITY_DOCKER_AUDIT.md
index 954fd23..6597812 100644
--- a/docs/planning/SERENITY_DOCKER_AUDIT.md
+++ b/docs/planning/SERENITY_DOCKER_AUDIT.md
@@ -208,6 +208,33 @@ Resolved on 2026-05-25:
 - Confirm whether anything beyond `GameVault` still depends on `postgresql15`.
 - Confirm whether anything beyond `RomM` still depends on `MariaDB-Official`.
 - Is `/mnt/user/appdate/reranker` intentional, or a typo that should be corrected before migration?
+- When Pangolin API write auth is available again, rewrite Serenity target health-check hostnames away from stale `10.5.1.5` so the runtime alias can be removed cleanly.
+
+## Pangolin / Newt live remediation applied
+
+Live verification on 2026-05-25 showed Serenity Newt still probing stale pre-renumbering health-check URLs like `http://10.5.1.5:8787/` even though the Pangolin target objects already showed `ip=localhost` for those resources.
+
+Affected target IDs observed live:
+- `15` (`autobrr`)
+- `20` (`notifiarr`)
+- `25` (`readarr`)
+- `29` (`wizarr`)
+- `56` (`readarr-epub`)
+- `57` (`sonarr-anime`)
+- `58` (`romm`)
+- `69` (`gamevault`)
+
+Fast remediation applied live on Serenity:
+- `ip addr add 10.5.1.5/32 dev br0`
+
+Post-fix verification:
+- Newt logs recorded recovery to healthy for targets `15`, `20`, `25`, `29`, `56`, and `57`
+- direct Serenity HTTP probes to `http://10.5.1.5:8785/` and `http://10.5.1.5:8457/` returned `200`
+- inside the `Newt` container, `wget` to `10.5.1.5:8785` and `10.5.1.5:8457` succeeded
+
+Interpretation:
+- the immediate production symptom was repaired without waiting for Pangolin API write access
+- this is only a runtime compatibility patch; it must be treated as temporary until the stale Pangolin `hcHostname` fields are authoritatively rewritten
 
 ## Database dependency findings
 
diff --git a/docs/troubleshooting/KNOWN_QUIRKS.md b/docs/troubleshooting/KNOWN_QUIRKS.md
index c2aaf5d..e04cb99 100644
--- a/docs/troubleshooting/KNOWN_QUIRKS.md
+++ b/docs/troubleshooting/KNOWN_QUIRKS.md
@@ -70,6 +70,17 @@ Per-service gotchas that aren't bugs but will bite you if you forget them.
 ### Unraid-Cloudflared-Tunnel
 - Dead container, should be removed
 
+### Serenity Newt / Pangolin stale health-check IP drift
+- Several Serenity Newt-backed Pangolin targets were corrected to `ip=localhost` but still retained stale `hcHostname=10.5.1.5`, so Newt health checks kept failing with `no route to host`
+- Verified affected target IDs on 2026-05-25: `15`, `20`, `25`, `29`, `56`, `57`, `58`, `69`
+- Fast live recovery on Serenity: add runtime compatibility alias `10.5.1.5/32` on `br0`
+  - command used: `ip addr add 10.5.1.5/32 dev br0`
+- Verified results after alias:
+  - Newt logged recovery to healthy for targets `15`, `20`, `25`, `29`, `56`, `57`
+  - direct HTTP probes to `http://10.5.1.5:8785/` and `http://10.5.1.5:8457/` returned `200`
+  - `docker exec Newt` confirmed `wget` success to ports `8785` and `8457`
+- This is a runtime workaround, not an authoritative fix. It will disappear on reboot unless deliberately persisted, and the real cleanup is still to rewrite Pangolin health-check hostnames away from the stale pre-renumbering IP.
+
 ---
 
 ## N.O.M.A.D.