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jyvikoandClaude Opus 5.5
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The updater's release endpoint, docs, README, release notes and the Pages URL point at the tangency-labs org. App IDs (io.github.jyviko.fieldcraft) stay unchanged so installed copies keep their identity and settings. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
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# Updates
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FieldCraft checks for new releases, verifies them and installs them itself, with your consent at
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each step. The code is `crates/update` (`fieldcraft-update`); the window's side is
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`crates/ui-egui/src/updates.rs`, the desktop app's `apps/fieldcraft/src/update.rs`.
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## Checking
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The app asks the GitHub Releases API for the latest published release
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(`GET https://api.github.com/repos/tangency-labs/fieldcraft/releases/latest`; drafts and pre-releases
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are never offered) and compares its version with the running one (Semantic Versioning order).
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- **At start-up**, at most once a day, when **Check for updates automatically** is on (the
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default). It is shown with the first run's question and in **Help › Settings… › Updates**.
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Off means no request at all. A failed automatic check is silent (it goes to the log). Runs
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driven by automation (`--control`) and CI never check automatically.
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- **Help › Check for Updates** asks now, and says when FieldCraft is up to date or why the check
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failed.
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- **Agents and scripts**: the `app.update.check` command (in the app, and through MCP connected
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to it) and `fieldcraft-cli update --check` reply with `current`, `latest`, `newer`, `url` (the
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release page), `published`, `signed` and `asset` (the file this install would download; `null`
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when it cannot update itself). They only report.
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The request carries the FieldCraft version in its `User-Agent`; GitHub sees the request's IP
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address, as with any download. Nothing else is sent ([privacy.md](privacy.md)).
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A newer release shows a notice in the status bar: **FieldCraft 0.5.9 is available — What's new ·
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Install · Skip**. What's new opens the release page; Skip stops offering that version (Settings
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can offer it again).
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## Verifying
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Every release carries `SHA256SUMS.txt` and, signed with the FieldCraft release key,
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`SHA256SUMS.txt.minisig` (Ed25519 in minisign's format; the public key is built into the app,
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`fieldcraft_update::PUBLIC_KEY`, and printed in [releasing.md](releasing.md)). Installing:
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1. downloads the list and its signature, and refuses unless the signature is the release key's;
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2. downloads the asset for this install and refuses unless its SHA-256 is the one the list gives;
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3. on macOS, refuses an app that fails `codesign --verify --deep --strict`, is not
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`io.github.jyviko.fieldcraft`, or is rejected by Gatekeeper (`spctl`) when the installed app
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is accepted.
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A release without a signature cannot be installed from the app: Install opens its page instead.
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A development build (run from `target/`) checks but never installs.
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## Installing
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Install downloads and verifies in the background, unpacks the release beside the installed copy
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(`.fieldcraft-update-<version>`, so the swap is a rename on one file system), then asks to restart.
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**Restart Now** saves or asks about unsaved changes first, as opening another model does; the
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window closes, the autosave is closed, the swap is made and the new version starts. **Later**
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installs when you quit. A failed swap puts the previous version back; a staging folder left
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behind is removed at the next start.
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| Installed as | Asset | Swap |
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| `FieldCraft.app` (macOS) | `fieldcraft-<v>-macos-universal.dmg` | the bundle is replaced, then opened |
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| `fieldcraft-cli` (macOS) | `fieldcraft-cli-<v>-macos-universal.zip` | the binary is replaced |
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| A Windows folder | `fieldcraft-<v>-windows-x64.zip` | each file is replaced (a running `.exe` is renamed away, never overwritten); the app restarts |
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| An AppImage | `fieldcraft-<v>-linux-x86_64.AppImage` | the file is replaced and started |
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| A tar.gz folder | `fieldcraft-<v>-linux-x86_64.tar.gz` | the folder is replaced; when its parent is not writable the app says so and links the download |
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| `.deb` / `.rpm` | `fieldcraft_<v>_amd64.deb` / `fieldcraft-<v>.x86_64.rpm` | never replaced by the app: the verified package is downloaded to the app's data folder (`updates/`), and the app offers **Open with Installer** and the `sudo apt install …` / `sudo dnf install …` command |
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**Help › Reinstall FieldCraft…** downloads and verifies the running version again and swaps it
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in the same way, to repair a damaged install.
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`fieldcraft-cli update --install` does the same from the command line for the install the CLI
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belongs to (the tar.gz folder or Windows folder it is in, or the macOS CLI binary), without
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restarting anything; for `.deb`/`.rpm` it prints the package manager command.
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## The web app
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The browser build has no downloads to install: every half hour the page fetches its own address
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past the browser's cache, and when the deployed page loads another build than the running one
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(Trunk names each build's files by their content hash), the status bar offers **Reload to
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update**. Reloading with unsaved changes asks first, as closing the page does.
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## Testing
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`FIELDCRAFT_UPDATE_HOST` replaces `https://api.github.com` with another server, and allows plain
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`http` for it. It is for tests against a local server only (`fieldcraft_update::mock::Server`,
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behind the crate's `mock` feature, plays the Releases API); with it set, the app also checks
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automatically in automation runs, so the notice can be looked at:
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```sh
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FIELDCRAFT_UPDATE_HOST=http://127.0.0.1:8899 fieldcraft-cli update --check
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```
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The tests cover version order, the daily schedule and no request when checks are off, asset
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selection and the swap plan for every install kind, a checksum mismatch and a missing or foreign
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signature refused (without downloading the asset), archives that try to write outside their
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folder, undoing a failed swap, and the CLI against a local server. They never replace a running
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program.
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