fix(release): publish signed installers as GitHub Release assets - #174
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesThe desktop release flow now publishes signed installers as GitHub Release assets. Pages receives only update manifests and payloads. Version metadata, size validation, workflow output, documentation, and integration tests were updated for this flow. Desktop release publication
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ReleaseCoordinator
participant InstallerPublisher
participant GitHubReleases
participant PagesPublisher
participant GitHubPages
ReleaseCoordinator->>InstallerPublisher: Publish signed installer
InstallerPublisher->>GitHubReleases: Create or reuse release and upload installer
ReleaseCoordinator->>PagesPublisher: Publish update manifest and payload
PagesPublisher->>GitHubPages: Validate and sync update files
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The published installer can be tagged to source that does not contain its released version or metadata. Commit the staged release changes before creating the GitHub Release. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@scripts/publish_installer_release.ps1`:
- Line 27: Update the release workflow around publish_installer_release.ps1 so
version and staged release-metadata changes are committed and pushed before the
script resolves HEAD and creates the GitHub Release. Ensure the generated
desktop-<channel>-v<version> tag references that commit, while preserving the
existing order of installer publication before the GitHub Pages updater
manifest.
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| & (Join-Path $PSScriptRoot "publish_installer_release.ps1") -Channel $Channel -MetadataDir $MetadataDir | ||
| # Keep prior version folders available for downloads already in progress. | ||
| & (Join-Path $PSScriptRoot "publish_pages_branch.ps1") ` | ||
| -SourceDir $PagesStageRoot -Branch $PagesBranch -Remote $PagesRemote -SyncPaths @( | ||
| "$channelPath/$($versionInfo.WindowsArchiveFolderName)", | ||
| "$channelPath/app-archive.json" |
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This workflow no longer stages or syncs downloads/windows/stable/icarus-setup-latest.exe: it publishes icarus-setup.exe to GitHub Releases and syncs only the updater archive and manifest to Pages. However, the home-site CTA still links to the retired Pages path. The current Pages object is a legacy binary and will not be updated by this flow. Update the consumer to the stable GitHub Release asset URL in the same rollout, or retain the Pages compatibility artifact.
| if ($existing.Count -gt 0 -and -not $existing[0].isDraft) { | ||
| throw "Release $tag is already public. Use a new build number instead of replacing published bytes." |
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A matching non-draft release always throws here, even when it already contains the expected icarus-setup.exe asset. Since release_desktop.ps1 invokes this publisher before publish_pages_branch.ps1, a retry after a transient Pages failure aborts before it can publish the manifest. Inspect an existing release's expected asset and treat the matching verified asset as already published; continue to Pages while retaining failure behavior for a missing or incompatible asset.
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The signed Windows installer exceeds Git's 100 MiB file limit, so the first stable signing release published its updater but failed to publish the installer.
Publish the verified installer as a GitHub Release asset before publishing the updater. Existing installations continue to use the same Pages manifest and per-file updater. Publish the new payload and manifest in one commit while preserving prior payload folders for downloads in progress. Check staged Pages file sizes before remote access and retain workflow artifacts even if publication fails.
Prepare 4.6.2+102 because build 101's updater was already public. A retry accepts an existing public installer only after validating its signature and matching its SHA256 to the staged installer. Different or missing assets fail without modifying the public release.
Commit staged version and metadata changes before creating the release tag. The version bump also exposed stale version bookkeeping for strategies that already passed the latest schema migration. Stamp the current version after the migration chain completes, without changing content or downgrading newer strategies. The round-trip test now distinguishes the untouched original Hive record from newly imported copies.
Validation: 610 Flutter tests passed, 4 skipped. Windows PowerShell parsing, workflow ordering, signing rejection gates, the 100 MiB boundary, a real local Git publication test proving one commit and preservation of earlier payloads, and matching/mismatched public-asset retries passed. The download controller and restart service are unchanged from the shipped 4.6.1 source. The website consumer change is prepared in SunkenInTime/icarus-home#8 for rollout once the installer asset is live.