Using existing downloads for parsing

[FlorianK13]

Some open-mastr user wrote the following mail:

First of all, thanks for maintaining the Open‑MaStR package, and a brief introduction to my situation:
I started my data pipeline using open‑mastr v0.15.0. I often have to work with older data sets, so I use the download method with the date="20260101" option to parse older XML files.
After upgrading to v0.16.1, parsing a locally‑available .xml.zip no longer works with the date="20260101" option—the download starts immediately instead.
I checked the documentation, and the date option is still listed. However, for the existing option it is marked as deprecated. Supplying a date should still work, right?
In the linked GitHub issue #616 I also found the reason why the option was deprecated.
Now my questions:

• If the date="20260101" option is also deprecated, could it be revived?

[FlorianK13]

Part two of the question In v0.15.0 the SQLite tables were still split into _extended and _eeg. Has this now been merged automatically? was revoked by the user, this was an error on their side.