feat: ✨ in-app updates - #97
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Adds tauri-plugin-updater and tauri-plugin-process. The app checks once on launch and offers an install through a toast; the palette gains 'check for updates...', which unlike the launch check reports when there is nothing to install. The launch check is silent on failure, because a network blip during startup is the wrong moment to interrupt someone. src/lib/updater.ts holds the two functions, split so one answers whether an update exists and one installs it. It lives in src/lib rather than src/data because an update check is app lifecycle, not note IO, and ARCHITECTURE.md puts that in UI code. The check is PROD-guarded: the endpoint does not answer in development. tauri.conf.json gains createUpdaterArtifacts and the plugins.updater block, and the build job gains TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY. That also makes max-parallel: 1 load-bearing for the first time, since latest.json now exists to race over. The cask gets auto_updates true back and the README says notras updates itself again; both were removed in #95 precisely because they were not true yet. src/lib/updater.spec.ts asserts the shipped pubkey is a real minisign key. tauri build does not validate it (the plugin parses it at runtime), so without this a placeholder would ship and only fail in an installed app. It fails right now by design: the key is not in yet. Carries an unrelated dependency upgrade that was already in the working tree from pnpm deps:up; pnpm add regenerated the lockfile on top of it and the two cannot be separated without discarding it.
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The update command may have a minor icon styling or behavior inconsistency because its icon is missing the expected marker; this is localized and does not present an actionable merge-blocking risk. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant RootLayout
participant CommandPalette
participant updater.ts
participant GitHubReleases
participant TauriUpdater
participant TauriProcess
RootLayout->>updater.ts: findUpdate()
CommandPalette->>updater.ts: findUpdate()
updater.ts->>GitHubReleases: check for release update
GitHubReleases-->>updater.ts: return update or no update
updater.ts-->>RootLayout: return update result
updater.ts-->>CommandPalette: return update result
RootLayout->>updater.ts: offerUpdate(update)
CommandPalette->>updater.ts: offerUpdate(update)
updater.ts->>TauriUpdater: download and install update
TauriUpdater-->>updater.ts: complete installation
updater.ts->>TauriProcess: relaunch application
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727-734: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd the required icon placement attribute.
The new action renders
DownloadIconthrough the generic<Icon />at Line 836. Adddata-icon="inline-start"in that shared render path so the update action follows the icon contract.As per coding guidelines: "
**/*.tsx: Adddata-icon=\"inline-start\"(prefix) ordata-icon=\"inline-end\"(suffix) to the icon. No sizing classes on the icon."🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/components/command-palette.tsx`:
- Around line 630-652: Update checkForUpdates and findUpdate so skipped checks,
such as non-production builds, are distinguishable from a completed check with
no available update; only show the “up to date” toast for the latter, while
preserving the available-update installation flow.
In `@src/lib/updater.spec.ts`:
- Around line 19-25: Update the test around config.plugins.updater.pubkey to
validate the complete expected Minisign public key or its fingerprint rather
than only the untrusted-comment header. Also verify a known signed fixture using
that key so truncated or unrelated payloads cannot pass while updater
verification would fail.
In `@src/lib/updater.ts`:
- Around line 25-27: Update the quit-handling logic associated with
installUpdate so the app-quit event and fallback timer run only for
user-initiated exits, not restart requests carrying RESTART_EXIT_CODE. Preserve
the existing restart flow after update.downloadAndInstall() and relaunch(), and
ensure the prevent_exit handshake is skipped for restart exits.
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In `@src/components/command-palette.tsx`:
- Around line 727-734: Add data-icon="inline-start" to the shared Icon render
path used by the command-palette action entries, ensuring the check-for-updates
DownloadIcon follows the required prefix icon contract without adding sizing
classes.
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In `@src/components/command-palette.tsx`:
- Around line 727-734: Update the shared action renderer that renders command
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icons receive the required data-icon="inline-start" marker. Preserve the
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In `@ARCHITECTURE.md`:
- Around line 273-274: Update the failed-flush behavior description near
downloadAndInstall and relaunch to state that the app remains running without
restarting when flushPendingWrites() fails, rather than saying it remains on the
installed bundle.
In `@src/lib/updater.ts`:
- Around line 19-24: Update findUpdate and both toast action flows so the native
Update handle is not retained beyond its required use: keep only display data in
toast state, and call Update.close() whenever the toast is dismissed or
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What
Adds in-app updates:
tauri-plugin-updaterandtauri-plugin-process, a launch check that offers an install through a toast, and a "check for updates..." palette entry that reports either way.src/lib/updater.tssplits the query from the command, and isPROD-guarded because the endpoint does not answer in development.tauri.conf.jsongainscreateUpdaterArtifactsand theplugins.updaterblock, and the build job gainsTAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY. The cask getsauto_updates trueback and the README says notras updates itself again; both came out in #95 because they were not true yet.Also carries a dependency upgrade that was already in the working tree.
Why
#95 shipped the pipeline but nothing could release:
ci:is not a releasable type, so release-please correctly found no user-facing commits. This is afeat:, so merging it opens the first release PR, and cutting that release is what finally exercisescheck,build,verifyandhomebrewfor the first time. Holding the release until now means no install is ever stranded on a build that cannot update itself.The risk taken is the signing key. Its public half is compiled into every shipped bundle, so losing the private half ends updates for every installed copy permanently, with no recovery but asking people to re-download.
Two things fail loudly rather than quietly.
src/lib/updater.spec.tsasserts the shipped pubkey is a real minisign key, becausetauri builddoes not validate it and a placeholder would only surface as silence in an installed app. Andverifyholds the release as a draft until every platform's asset is present, so a build that produces no.sigfiles never becomes a release.Summary by CodeRabbit
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