Accounting for changing snow over 10 years of IceTop, and its impact on the all-particle cosmic ray spectrum

The IceTop surface detector of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory measures extensive air showers (EAS). Coincident signals in both tanks of an IceTop station result primarily from the electromagnetic component of the EAS, and events which trigger at least 5 stations correspond to energies roughly above the knee, with an energy threshold and reconstruction behavior that changes over time as snow accumulates above the array. We present a status report of an analysis of ≥ 5-station events in IceTop from 2011-2021, which will be used to measure the all-particle spectrum of cosmic rays in the transition region from galactic to extragalactic sources up to EeV range, using updated simulations and improved treatments of snow attenuation. In particular, a snow model has been developed which takes the non-attenuating muon content of tank signals, as well as their saturation behavior, into account.